Mechanic and Engineer

Factory creatures
Level 1
Halfling
Halfling Grenadier
Level 2
Mechanic
Engineer
Level 3
Armadillo
Bellwether Armadillo
Level 4
Automaton
Sentinel Automaton
Level 5
Sandworm
Olgoi-Khorkhoi
Level 6
Gunslinger
Bounty Hunter
Level 7a
Couatl
Crimson Couatl
Level 7b
Dreadnought
Juggernaut
Towns

Statistics
Mechanic
Cost per troop  140
	Attack 6 Defense 5 Damage 2–4 Health 14 Speed 6 Movement Ground Size 1 Growth 8 AI Value 186
Special abilities:
• Breath attack • Repairs mechanical creatures (10 HP per unit)
Engineer
Cost per troop  170
	Attack 7 Defense 5 Damage 2–5 Health 16 Speed 7 Movement Ground Size 1 Growth 8 AI Value 278
Special abilities:
• Breath attack • Repairs mechanical creatures (20 HP per unit)
Portraits

Mechanics and Engineers are level 2 creatures of Factory. They are recruited from the Foundry.

Heroes with a specialty

• Sam the Mercenary has Mechanics as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any Mechanics or Engineers for each level attained after 2nd level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

Special Ability: Repair

Mechanics and Engineers can repair Mechanical creatures by 10 hit points for every Mechanic or by 20 hit points for every Engineer. To repair a Mechanical creature, the Mechanic/Engineer must stand next to it and use the ability. Each stack can only use this ability once per combat.

The ability only works on Mechanical creatures specifically; i.e., only Automatons, Sentinel Automatons (unless they detonated), Dreadnoughts, and Juggernauts. It does not work on Golems or War Machines.

Repair can revive dead creatures, even from the remains of destroyed stacks.

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Mechanics and Engineers are too fragile to fight on their own, but their true strength lies in repairing mechanical creatures. Rather than using them as primary damagers, use them to attack unit stacks standing close and to finish wounded enemies. They are similar to Archangels in terms of true "returning" creatures into the battlefield, but only "return" Mechanical creatures.

See also:

• List of creatures