Crypt

Crypt
Picture
%	Guards	Content	XP
30 %	30 20	1500	480
30 %	25 20 5	2000	540
30 %	20 20 10 5	2500 Artifact (T)	750
10 %	20 20 10 10	5000 Artifact (T)	900
Visiting scheme
Event
You tentatively approach the burial crypt of ancient warriors. Do you want to search the graves? * * * Upon defeating the undead guardians you spend several hours searching the graves and find nothing. Such a despicable act reduces your army's morale.

Crypt is an adventure map location, and commonly known as one of the creature banks. It is guarded by 50–60 undead creatures, whose level varies from 1 to 4. The more guards there are, the better the reward. Treasure contains gold or sometimes a treasure class artifact.

The guards are divided into the stacks of:

A hex: 10/13/20/20 Skeletons
B hex: 10/10/20/20 Walking Dead
C hex: 10 Walking Dead/5/10/10 Wights
D hex: 10 Skeletons/10 Walking Dead/5/10 Vampires
E hex: 10/12 Skeletons/clear/clear

All the guard stacks of the same speed attack in alphabetic order: from A to E.  In Horn of the Abyss, the object's level can be preset by a map-maker.

The hero's troops are located in blue hexes 1-7 (a tail hex for two-hexed creatures) according to stack positioning in the army slots 1-7. But if the hero has less than 7 stacks, e.g. 3, they will be placed in hexes 1-3 no matter how they were placed in the army slots.

Though war machines are not present on the battlefield, the infinite shots effect from Ammo Cart is active.

Slain enemies do not respawn (should the hero retreat or be defeated). The damaged stack's losses will not be redistributed among the others. If a stack was destroyed, it changes the guards disposition. Its place on the battlefield will be taken by the next one in the attacking order. (E.g.: If A stack was destroyed, B stack takes its place, C stack takes the freshly vacated place of B and so on).

Searching the crypt after the guards have been defeated decreases morale by 1. Visiting additional crypts will not further decrease morale.

Guards preview

The table shows how to pre-check the guard strength of an object without attacking it.
Stacks insignificant for a preview are omitted.

Guards	Guards preview (in HotA only)
30 %:  x30,  x20	Skeletons and Walking Dead only
30 %:  x25,  x20,  x5	several (5-9) Wights
30 %:  x20,  x20,  x10,  x5	several (5-9) Vampires
10 %:  x20,  x20,  x10,  x10	pack (10-19) of Vampires

Default settings for random map generator

• Terrain: grass, dirt, snow, swamp, sand.
• Value: 1000.
• Density: 100.

Horn of the Abyss

In Horn of the Abyss, the appearance of the snow crypt changed slightly:

  

See also:

• List of map objects