Gorgon and Mighty Gorgon

Fortress Creatures

Level

1

 Gnoll

 Gnoll Marauder

Level

2

 Lizardman

 Lizard Warrior

Level

3

 Serpent Fly

 Dragon Fly

Level

4

 Basilisk

 Greater Basilisk

Level

5

 Gorgon

 Mighty Gorgon

Level

6

 Wyvern

 Wyvern Monarch

Level

7

 Hydra

 Chaos Hydra

Gorgon

Attack Skill

10

Defense Skill

14

Damage

12–16

Health

70

Speed

5

Move

Ground

Size

2

Growth

3

AI Value

890

Fight Value

890

Cost

525

Mighty Gorgon

Attack Skill

11

Defense Skill

16

Damage

12–16

Health

70

Speed

6

Move

Ground

Size

2

Growth

3

AI Value

1028

Fight Value

1028

Cost

600

Death Stare.

Gorgons and Mighty Gorgons are the level 5 creatures of Fortress. They are recruited from the Gorgon Lair.

"The sturdy gorgons attack with their acidic breath. The Mighty Gorgon has a death stare with a 10% chance per attack of killing 1 creature in a troop outright per 10 Mighty Gorgons." ^{RoE manual}

Dwellings & Portraits

Heroes with a specialty

• Alkin the Beastmaster

Special Ability: Death Stare

Death Stare gives Mighty Gorgons a chance to instantly kill one or more living units in the enemy stack after the Mighty Gorgons attack or retaliate.

• This chance is 10% per Mighty Gorgon in the stack, and is not cumulative. This means that, even with 20 or 30 Mighty Gorgons, there is a small chance that Death Stare does not activate after an attack.
• Death Stare will always kill the topmost unit(s) in the stack, meaning that if the enemy stack survives after Death Stare occurs, the new topmost unit will always have full Health.
• Death Stare cannot kill more enemies than are equal to 10% of the number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack (rounded up). For example:
  • 1—10 Mighty Gorgons may kill 0—1 enemy units with Death Stare
  • 11—20 Mighty Gorgons may kill 0—2 enemy units with Death Stare
  • 21—30 Mighty Gorgons may kill 0—3 enemy units with Death Stare

Takeaway: It is very important for the number of Mighty Gorgons to get to a new '10 + 1'. Remember this when splitting Mighty Gorgons into multiple stacks or targeting enemy Mighty Gorgons.

Show Probability Tables

NOTE: This is based on the Binomial Distribution formula of combinations(n,k) * p^k * (1-p)^n-k where:

• p: probability of Death Stare = 0.1
• n: # of Mighty Gorgons
• k: # of Death Stare victims

	# of Victims
# Gorgons	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	90%	10%	-	-	-	-	-
2	81%	19%	-	-	-	-	-
3	73%	27%	-	-	-	-	-
4	66%	34%	-	-	-	-	-
5	59%	41%	-	-	-	-	-
6	53%	47%	-	-	-	-	-
7	48%	52%	-	-	-	-	-
8	43%	57%	-	-	-	-	-
9	39%	61%	-	-	-	-	-
10	35%	65%	-	-	-	-	-
11	31%	38%	30%	-	-	-	-
12	28%	38%	34%	-	-	-	-
13	25%	37%	38%	-	-	-	-
14	23%	36%	42%	-	-	-	-
15	21%	34%	45%	-	-	-	-
16	19%	33%	49%	-	-	-	-
17	17%	32%	52%	-	-	-	-
18	15%	30%	55%	-	-	-	-
19	14%	29%	58%	-	-	-	-
20	12%	27%	61%	-	-	-	-
21	11%	26%	28%	35%	-	-	-

	# of Victims
# Gorgons	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	90%	10%	-	-	-	-	-
5	59%	41%	-	-	-	-	-
10	35%	65%	-	-	-	-	-
11	31%	38%	30%	-	-	-	-
15	21%	34%	45%	-	-	-	-
20	12%	27%	61%	-	-	-	-
21	11%	26%	28%	35%	-	-	-
25	7%	20%	27%	46%	-	-	-
30	4%	14%	23%	59%	-	-	-
31	4%	13%	22%	24%	38%	-	-
35	3%	10%	18%	22%	47%	-	-
40	1%	7%	14%	20%	58%	-	-
41	1%	6%	13%	19%	21%	39%	-
45	1%	4%	11%	17%	20%	47%	-
50	1%	3%	8%	14%	18%	57%	-
51	0%	3%	7%	13%	18%	18%	40%

Creatures Immune to Death Stare

Elementals:

•   Air and Storm Elementals
•   Water and Ice Elementals
•   Fire and Energy Elementals
•   Earth and Magma Elementals
•   Psychic and Magic Elementals

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Undead:

•   Skeletons and Skeleton Warriors
•   Walking Dead and Zombies
•   Wights and Wraiths
•   Vampires and Vampire Lords
•   Liches and Power Liches
•   Black and Dread Knights
•   Bone and Ghost Dragons
•  Mummies

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Gargoyles:

•   Stone and Obsidian Gargoyles

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Golems:

•   Stone and Iron Golems
•  Gold Golems
•  Diamond Golems

•  Steel Golems 

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Mechanicals:

•   Automatons and Sentinel Automatons 
•   Dreadnoughts and Juggernauts 

Official Renders

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Mighty Gorgons are among the best level 5 creatures in the game, and certainly one of the highlights of the Fortress town. They can defend your Ranged attackers, or with a prayer or haste or even a cape of velocity can go for blow with creatures far stronger than them because of their good defense stat, high health and incredibly effective death stare ability. Ideal strategy is to get them on the strongest troop stack possible (Archangels, Titans, etc.) and watch them level opponents far stronger in stats.

Because of how death stare is capped, it's best to separate Mighty Gorgons in stacks of 11, 21, 31 etc. or at least 12, 22, 32 etc. whenever possible, rather then even multiples of 10. Generally, a stack of 10N+1 Mighty Gorgons has an about 30%-40% chance of killing N+1 enemies with the death stare, while for 10N Mighty Gorgons it's obviously impossible.

Mighty Gorgons are possibly the creatures to whom Berserk is more harmful than to any others. It is a pure disaster, since they will kill their allies via death stare, during both their own attack and retaliation.

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See Also:

• List of creatures

• Comparison of Level 5 Creatures