Editing Wandering creature (section)

== Combat with wandering creatures ==

The number of creature stacks on the [[battlefield]], is basically dependent on the ratio between the attacking hero's [[army strength]] and the strength of the wandering creatures. The rule of thumb is, that the stronger the hero's army is, the less stacks there are on the battlefield. However, every tile on the map influences the number of stacks (towards the higher or lower bound) in a fixed way.

Since they only contain one type of creatures, they always have +1 [[morale]] unless they are [[undead]], [[elementals]], or other creatures unaffected by morale.

If the creature is non-upgraded, there can be also upgraded creatures included in the battle, but not the other way round. Such upgrade occurs only after the fight is accepted and therefore has no bearing on the AI value of the stack on the map. Only one stack can be upgraded, therefore using smaller army can be advantageous, as it will cause only less creatures to be upgraded. Similar feature is also present at [[Creature Bank]]s.