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| U_special = • [[Death stare]]
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{{Cram|Gorgon Lair|Gorgon|Mighty Gorgon|no_dwelling=}}
'''Gorgons and Mighty Gorgons''' are the level 5 creatures of [[Fortress]]. They are recruited from the [[Gorgon Lair]].  
'''Gorgons and Mighty Gorgons''' are level 5 creatures of [[Fortress town]]. 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."{{-}}<sup>[[Restoration of Erathia Manual Page 94|RoE manual]]''</sup>
''"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."{{-}}<sup>[[Restoration of Erathia Manual Page 94|RoE manual]]''</sup>
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__TOC__
== Dwellings & Portraits ==
{{DwellingPortraitNoExp
| dwelling      = Gorgon Lair
| creature1      = Gorgon
| creature2      = Mighty Gorgon
}}
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== Heroes with a [[Specialty#Creature_specialties|specialty]] ==
* {{H|Alkin|Beastmaster}}


== Special ability death stare ==
== Special Ability: Death Stare ==
Mighty Gorgons have [[special ability]] death stare, which may occur after the stack has attacked, including retaliations. When the stack attacks, the successful death stare occurs before the enemy has a chance to retaliate. Every gorgon in the stack has 10% chance to cause death stare. Successful stare instantly kills the 'top' unit of a stack, leaving the new 'top' unit with full health. The stare cannot kill more enemies than 1/10th from the number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack rounded up. In other words, the stare of 1–10 Mighty Gorgons may only kill one enemy, while a stack of 11 might kill two.
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


Unlike most "magic" abilities, this works on Black Dragons, but not on the undead.
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.


====== Calculation ======
<span class="mw-customtoggle-ProbTab" style="color:blue">'''<big>Show Probability Tables</big>'''</span>
{{Math|PR% <nowiki>=</nowiki> 1 - 0.90^N|<br><br>PR% <nowiki>=</nowiki> Chance to kill at least one enemy creatures|<br>N&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<nowiki>=</nowiki> Number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack}}
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-ProbTab">
 
NOTE: This is based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution Binomial Distribution] formula of '''combinations(n,k) * p<sup>k</sup> * (1-p)<sup>n-k</sup>''' where:
'''Creatures immune to death stare:'''
* p: probability of Death Stare = 0.1
* n: # of Mighty Gorgons
* k: # of Death Stare victims
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; margin-right:8px;"
|-
! !! colspan=99 | # 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% ||  - ||  - ||  -
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left;"
|-
! !! colspan=99 | # 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%
|}
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=== Creatures Immune to Death Stare ===
{{Non-living}}
{{Non-living}}


== Heroes with a specialty ==
== Official Renders ==
 
<gallery mode="packed-hover">
*{{H|Alkin|Beastmaster}} has gorgons as a [[Specialty#Creature_specialties|specialty]], which increases the attack and defense skills of any Gorgons or Mighty Gorgons for each level attained after 5th level, and gives them a [[speed]] bonus of 1.
Gorgon render.png
</gallery>


== Tactics and info ==
{{Fanopinion|
{{Fanopinion}}
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 ([[Archangel]]s, [[Titan]]s, etc.) and watch them level opponents far stronger in stats.


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 ([[Azure Dragon]]s, [[Titan]]s, 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.  
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.
}}<!-- end of fan opinion -->


{{creature 'see also'}}
{{creature 'see also'}}
* [[Comparison of Level 5 Creatures]]


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[[Category: Creatures]]
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Latest revision as of 23:54, 14 February 2025

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Gorgon
10
14
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70
5
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Mighty Gorgon
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70
6
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Ground
Size
2
Growth
3
1028
1028
Cost

600

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[edit | hide | hide all]

Gorgon Lair

Heroes with a specialty[edit | hide]

Special Ability: Death Stare[edit | hide]

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

Creatures Immune to Death Stare[edit | hide]

Elementals:

Undead:

Gargoyles:

Golems:

Mechanicals:


Official Renders[edit | hide]

User Commentary

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