Creature

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'''Creature''' is general word for all entities a hero can encounter or hire in {{homm3}}. It can be interchangeably used with '''unit''', '''troop''' or '''monster'''. However, the original manual uses the word 'creature'.

In the [[adventure map]] creatures appear in [[wandering creature]] stacks. Without [[Visions]], a player can not see exactly how many creatures there are, but they can see a rough estimation as seen in the table below.

{| style="background-color: #CCCCFF; border-width: 0px;" cellpadding="3";
|- align=center bgcolor=9999FF
| '''Amount'''
| '''Range'''
|-
| Few || align=center | 1–4
|-
| Several || align=center | 5–9
|-
| Pack || align=center | 10–19
|-
| Lots || align=center | 20–49
|-
| Horde || align=center | 50–99
|-
| Throng || align=center | 100–249
|-
| Swarm || align=center | 250–499
|-
| Zounds || align=center | 500–999
|-
| Legion || align=center | 1000–9999
|}

On the [[battlefield]], Creatures appear in [[troop stack|stack]]s. Stacks take their turns according to [[Speed#Speed as initiative|initiative]] and can move and/or attack on their turn. When a stack takes damage, the 'top' unit of the stack loses health, and when it reaches 0 health, reducing the size of the stack by one and revealing the next-top creature, which starts with full health (unless the damage taken exceeds the current health of the previous top creature, in which case the new top creatures loses health accordingly). A stack deals damage according to the number of creatures in it. When the last creature in a stack dies, it leaves a corpse on the battlefield which can be the target of spells/abilities like [[resurrection]]. All of the creatures that were in a stack at the start of the battle are in the corpse (rather than, say, the stack leaving small corpses behind every time any of the creatures in it die).

== See also ==
* [[List of creatures]]

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