Editing Red Dragon and Black Dragon

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 | Name      = Red Dragon
 | Attack    = 19
 | Defense   = 19
 | Speed     = 11
 | Growth    = 1
 | Damage    = 40–50
 | Health    = 180
 | Movement  = [[Flying]]
 | Size      = 2
 | Res       = [[File: Resource Sulfur 20x18.gif]]
 | ResCost   = 1
 | Cost      = 2500
 | Special   = • [[Dragon]]<br>• [[Breath attack]]<br>• [[Spell immunity|Immune to spells]] level 1–3
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 | U_name    = Black Dragon
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 | U_defense = '''25'''
 | U_speed   = '''15'''
 | U_health  = '''300'''
 | U_cost    = 4000
 | U_ResCost = 2
 | U_special = • [[Dragon]]<br>• [[Breath attack]]<br>• [[Spell immunity|Immune]] to all spells<br>• [[Hate]]s [[Giant and titan|Titans]]
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'''Red Dragons and Black Dragons''' are level 7 creatures of [[Dungeon]], and are recruited from the [[Dragon Cave]].

''"Red and black dragons with their great mobility, flying ability, and powerful [[breath attack|breath weapons]] are among the most effective units in the game. Red dragons are [[Spell immunity|immune to spells]] below level four. Black dragons are twice as durable, do [[Hate|150% damage]] to... [[Giant and titan|titans]], and are immune to all spells."{{-}}<sup>[[Restoration of Erathia Manual Page 91|RoE manual]]''</sup>

== Special Abilities ==

=====Magic Immunity=====
This spell immunity is a double-edged sword, though, as it makes both Red and Black dragons immune to most beneficial spells, including [[Resurrection]]. Placing Red or Black Dragons (as well as any living Dragons) in the [[Skeleton Transformer]] will give you [[Bone Dragon]]s instead of regular [[Skeleton]]s.

Both dragons are affected by [[Dispel]].

=====Hates Titans=====
Though it is stated in the manual, Black Dragons do not hate [[Giant]]s.

== Tactics and info ==
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=== Toughness ===
With the health value of 300, Black Dragon is one of the toughest creatures in the game. In the original {{roe}}, it was the toughest of the [[dragon]]s and its health was only matched by [[Titan]]s' and [[Ancient Behemoth]]s' (and by Haspid's in {{hota}}). It also has more defense than either of those creatures, but not necessarily by much. {{ab}} expansion introduced four new dragons, [[Faerie Dragon]], [[Rust Dragon]]s, [[Crystal Dragon]]s and [[Azure Dragon]]s, which all are neutral creatures and have more health than Black Dragons.

=== Offense ===
While not having the highest damage of a level 7 creature, they still have it higher than most of them, accompanied by the [[Breath attack]] ability, which lets them strike two units at once. They also have a respectable attack value, but lower than the [[Gold Dragon]]'s by 2. Black Dragons also deal 150% damage against [[Giant and Titan|Giants and Titans]].

=== Efficiency and cost ===
To build the base dwelling of this creature, all other base creature dwellings are needed together with the Mage Guild level 2. However, unlike their nemesis, the [[Giant and Titan|Giants and Titans]], the dragon's base dwelling requires much more valuable resources, which usually results in getting Red Dragons later than someone would get Giants, and also having less of them to upgrade in the upcoming weeks.

For their relatively low price compared to other units, the Red and Black Dragons fare well. You might run out of sulfur {{s}} sometimes, though.

=== Tactics ===
Because of the Black Dragons' spell immunity, they are suitable to be used in tactics often called [[dragogeddon]]. In dragogeddon, a hero with preferably high [[power skill]] and [[Armageddon]] spell attacks with an army only consisting of creatures immune or very resilient to the Armageddon spell. The tactics may be used in "hit-and-run" tactic, to advance through wandering creatures or even to slay enemy heroes. In {{roe}} series, Black Dragons were the best creature to use in dragogeddon. '''Note that Red Dragons are useless for Dragogeddon, since they are immune only to 1-3 level spells!'''

The benefit of using Black Dragons in this tactics is their high initiative, in other words, their speed. Only [[Phoenix]]es and [[Gold Dragon]]s are faster creatures that are immune to Armageddon. High initiative enables hero to act first in the combat, and this way possibly win the battle before enemy gets a chance to flee, surrender or otherwise cause resistance.

Even so, the Black Dragons is technically an excellent fighter, being able to reach the enemy shooters the first turn, but they won't last too much against an army with similar strength, since they can't be normally resurrected, so they have to be well backed up by other friendly troops.

The main tactic against Red and Black Dragons is to simply attack them with almost all you've got and overwhelm them, murdering other troops mostly by magic. Be careful with your troop placement, as to not let them strike two of your troops at the same time.

=== Skill bonuses ===
While not getting such an immense bonus from skills, like creatures as [[Titans]] do, there are still some good skills to take in consideration. [[Armorer]] is a very good to choice to keep the dragons' numbers up, while [[Tactics]] allows more friendly troops to assist the dragons easily, which can be a big advantage for a [[Dungeon]] army to deliver a first, strong strike. [[Offense]] is, as usual, a nice skill to have, especially with the dragons' [[Breath attack]] and the [[Minotaur and Minotaur King]]'s large damage range.

=== Semantics === 
Together with the [[Titan]], the Black Dragon has become a symbol of the Heroes series since it first appeared in Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars.

==Trivia==
In one-on-one combat with no stats bonus, a Black Dragon barely defeats a single Titan. However, a difference of 1 more attack or defense for the Titan makes them win instead.

Comparing the Black Dragons in the in-game cutscenes, fans estimate they are ~24 metres tall.

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