Roc and Thunderbird

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Stronghold creatures
Level 1
Goblin Goblin
Hobgoblin Hobgoblin
Level 2
Wolf Rider Wolf Rider
Wolf Raider Wolf Raider
Level 3
Orc Orc
Orc Chieftain Orc Chieftain
Level 4
Ogre Ogre
Ogre Mage Ogre Mage
Level 5
Roc Roc
Thunderbird Thunderbird
Level 6
Cyclops Cyclops
Cyclops King Cyclops King
Level 7
Behemoth Behemoth
Ancient Behemoth Ancient Behemoth
Towns
Castle Stronghold Inferno
Rampart Fortress Necropolis
Tower Conflux Dungeon
Factory Cove
Neutral
Statistics
Roc
 Cost per troop 

600

Attack 13
Defense 11
Damage 11–15
Health 60
Speed 7
Movement Flying
Size 2
Growth 3
AI Value 1027
Thunderbird
 Cost per troop 

700

Attack 13
Defense 11
Damage 11–15
Health 60
Speed 11
Movement Flying
Size 2
Growth 3
AI Value 1106
 Special abilities:
Lightning strike
Cliff Nest  

Rocs and Thunderbirds are the level 5 creatures of Stronghold. They are recruited from the Cliff Nest.

"Rocs and thunderbirds are the only flying units available at Stronghold towns. When thunderbirds attack, there is a 20% chance thunderbolts will strike their target, delivering 10x the number of attacking thunderbirds in additional damage." RoE manual

Special Ability: Lightning Strike[edit]

Thunderbirds have special ability lightning strike, which has 20% probability to occur after the stack have attacked, including retaliations. When the stack attacks, the lightning strike occurs before the enemy has a chance to retaliate. If successful, the lightning strike deals additional damage for the amount of ten times the number of attacking Thunderbirds. The thunderbolts have the same visual effect as the spell Lightning Bolt, and the special attack is also counted as one in terms of immunities and Golems' spell damage reduction (e.g. if 14 Thunderbirds attack a stack of Diamond Golems with a lightning strike, they will do 7 damage instead of 140 because Diamond Golems have 95% spell damage resistance). Since the attack is considered to be the Lightning Bolt spell, it also deals extra damage to Air Elemental Air Elementals Restoration of Erathia and Storm Elemental Storm Elementals Armageddon's Blade.

Heroes with a specialty[edit]

  • Shiva Shiva the Barbarian has rocs as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any rocs or thunderbirds for each level attained after 5th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

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Some may find the information in this section subjective or irrelevant.

Since they are the only flying Stronghold unit, the rocs and thunderbirds usually die in large numbers if they are to be sent to attack the enemy straight away. They should be used tactically and not draw too much damage towards themselves, even if their health stat is the third highest for a level 5. Their defense is also pretty low. Try to upgrade Rocs to Thunderbirds as soon as possible, as with speed 7 Rocs are quite useless. For that reason, capturing Rocs' external dwellings is not that difficult (however, beware of first turn right, and if you cannot kill all 9 Rocs guarding the dwelling at the same time, Slow is still a good idea as the guardians may attack twice due to high morale, reaching some of your troops).

Since the lightning strike deals direct damage that is unaffected by most combat modifiers, it's most effective against heavily armored stacks, although with only a 20% chance of occurring it cannot be relied upon.


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