Sacrifice

School of Fire Magic

Level 1

Bloodlust

Curse

Magic Arrow *

Protection from Fire

Level 2

Blind

Fire Wall

Visions *

Level 3

Fireball

Land Mine

Misfortune

Level 4

Armageddon

Berserk

Fire Shield

Frenzy

Inferno

Slayer

Level 5

Sacrifice

Summon Fire Elemental

School of Air Magic

School of Earth Magic

School of Water Magic

Sacrifice
	School:	Fire Magic
	Level:	5th
	Cost:	25/20
	Duration:	permanent
Basic effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 3) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Advanced effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 6) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Expert effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 10) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Probability of occurrence (%):
Castle   0 Rampart   0 Tower   0 (0*) Inferno   20 Necropolis   16 Dungeon   12 Stronghold   0 Fortress   0 Conflux   0 Cove    0 Factory    0 * Without Library

Sacrifice is a 5th level spell in the School of Fire Magic. The spell destroys (sacrifices) the target living troop in order to resurrect creatures of another stack back to life. The other stack must be receptive to the Resurrection spell. A sacrificed stack leaves an empty hex on the battlefield without anything to be resurrected or summoned as Demons, i.e. without leaving a corpse for any uses.

Creatures immune to Sacrifice (or resurrection via Sacrifice):

• Undead
• Golems
• Elementals
• Mechanicals
•   Stone and Obsidian Gargoyles
•  Gold Dragon ^{*can be sacrificed but not resurrected} NOTE: In HotA , Gold Dragons can be resurrected with Sacrifice as both parts of the spell are now considered level 5.

•  Magic Elementals

•  Black Dragons
•   Efreet and Efreet Sultans

•   Fire and Energy Elementals
•  Firebirds ^{*(not in Horn of the Abyss)}  and  Phoenixes

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Typically, it is better to sacrifice a troop with a greater number of creatures than a troop with the same total health but fewer units.

Optimize Resurrection spell with Sacrifice spell.

The table below presents some concrete cases. By having a power of 99, with 5510 peasants, you will resurrect 527 azure dragons (you will then be able to resurrect the peasants). It therefore takes 10 peasants to resurrect 1 azure dragon. The greater the difference between the "replaceable" creature's power and life, the greater the resurrection. The mana cost is also lower between 1 sacrifice and 1 resurrection compared to 3 resurrections from greenscreen images.
The spell is effective if the creature's health is 1 or less (power point - 3) divided by 2, if the number of creatures to be sacrificed exceeds 101.

Power															Notes
Health	1	1000	4	200	4	300	10	250	15	250	25	300	30	250
	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed
1	210	2/1050	53	3/422	53	2/422
7	510	6/5610	128	9/1790	128	6/1790	51	5/1020
12	760	13/12160	190	19/3610	190	13/3610	76	8/1900	51	7/1525
17	1010	22	253	31/6070	253	21/6070	101	13/3030	51	7/1525
22	1260	33	315	46/9135	315	31/9135	126	14/4410	84	14/3360	51	9/2535
27	1510	47	378	65/12850	378	43/12850	151	25/6040	101	19/4540	61	12/3340	51	13/3040
32	1760	64	440	86	440	58	176	32/7920	118	24/5890	71	15/4245	59	16/3825
47	2510	129	628	170	628	114	251	61/15060	168	44/10910	101	26/7560	84	27/6710
57	3010	184	753	241	753	161	301	85	201	61/15070	121	35/10270	101	37/9070
99	5110	527	1278	678	1278	452	511	229	341	160	205	87	171	91

(*)NOTE: All hit point restored is calculated based on:

• Expert proficiency in earth
• Basic proficiency in fire
• For Dragon, hero has Orb of Vulnerability
• Equation of resurrection spell: healed = 160 + power x 50
• Equation of sacrifice spell healed = n x power + ( n - 1 ) x health + current_health + n x 3

Optimize Archangel and Clone combination with Sacrifice spell.

The table below presents some concrete cases. By having 10 archangels, with 100 marksmans you will be able to resurrect 2000 life points with 7 power points or 8 archangels (only 3 with the resurrection spell). The effect increases if the hero increases his power points.

Number															Notes
Health	1	1000	4	200	4	300	10	300	20	250	30	300	35	300
	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed
2	200	3/2200
4	400	5/4400	100	7/1400	100	5/1400
10	1000	11/11000	250	18/3500	250	12/3500	100	7/2000
20	2000	22	500	35/7000	500	24/7000	200	14/4000	100	12/3000
30	3000	33	750	53/10500	750	35/10500	300	20/6000	150	18/4500	100	14/4000
35	3500	39	875	62	875	41	350	24/7000	175	21/5250	117	16/4670	100	15/4500

(*)NOTE: All hit point restored is calculated based on:

• Expert proficiency in water (archangel can be cloned)
• Basic proficiency in fire
• Hero has 7 in power point (the effect increases if the power points increase)
• For Dragon, hero has Orb of Vulnerability
• Equation of archangel capacity: healed = number x 100
• Equation of sacrifice spell healed = n x power + ( n - 1 ) x health + current_health + n x 3
• (example) With 2 Archangel and 200 Peasant, Hero can resurrect 1 Azure Dragon.

Additional information

In the text it says: "Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed).", in fact it is: "Target, non-undead, non-bloodless, non-summoned, non-hyponotized and non-cloned, troop is sacrificed (destroyed)."