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	Castle
	Towns
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

The dungeon town is an evil alignment town type with overlord and warlock hero classes. The dungeon towns are built to act as bases from which to wage campaigns of conquest for wealth and power. Similarly minded creatures are attracted as allies. Other dungeon creatures are in thrall to their masters. Dungeon armies are possessed of a variety of long ranged attacks, have effective damage dealing troops, and have the ability to greatly disrupt the strategies of their enemies.

Although dungeon is quite expensive, it has good magical capabilities (e.g. mana vortex) and powerful troops like black dragons, which are among the strongest creatures in Erathia.

In fact, the Dungeon town black dragon creature has become a symbol of the Heroes series since it first appeared in Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars and are also the symbol for the best player effectiveness in high score tables.

In terms of creature ranking (for example health points) but not magic immunity black dragons are surpassed by the Azure Dragons, Crystal Dragons, Rust Dragons and Faerie Dragons, which are all neutral creatures and cannot be bought in a town directly, except by using the unique Portal of Summoning of Dungeon towns and having recently flagged a creature dwelling on the adventure map.

Armageddon as a 4th level spell that Black Dragons (no magic at all) and Gold Dragons (only 5th level spells) are immune to can be resisted to 20% by Crystal Dragons but only Dungeon hailing Black Dragons and Magic Elementals of Conflux Cities are also immune to Implosion, the strongest single target spell and a 5th level spell.

Black Dragons seem to be the only type of Dragon creature that can completely ignore even helpful magic, although most other Dragons like Green Dragons (Spell immunity levels 1-3), Red Dragons (1-3), Gold Dragons (1-4) as well as Azure Dragons (1-3) tend to be immune to a range of spell levels.

Other creatures like Golems (magic damage resistance) or a Dwarf (magic resistance) or only the Crystal Dragon (magic resistance) can either completely avoid spells based on probability or damage to a certain percentage but not completely ignore spells in a spell level range Spell immunity like some dragons, of which the Black Dragon is the only Dragon that is never bothered by magic save for Orb of Vulnerability which clears any magic resistance or spell immunity of the target - kind of like the Phoenix which is immune to fire magic only.

Another level 7 town creature, the Phoenix has fire spell immunity only, but only dragons have full Spell immunity in terms of spell level ranges not energy types, save for Magic elementals (depending on the game packs installed).

Only Dungeon (Black Dragon) and Rampart (Gold Dragon) as well as Conflux (Phoenix) town creatures are feasible for the use of level 7 creature only Armageddon tiger teams, which given level 7 creatures are fast on the adventure as well as the combat map, have high initiative and given Armageddon can fatally damage the opponent before it gets a chance to flee, often, giving victory, resulting in the opponents artefacts and less capable left heroes.

Structures

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Dungeon-Specific Buildings

Creature dwellings

Heroes

Dungeon

Overlords

Lorelei

Arlach

Dace

Ajit

Damacon

Gunnar

Synca

Shakti

Mutare

Mutare Drake

Warlocks

Alamar

Jaegar

Malekith

Jeddite

Geon

Deemer

Sephinroth

Darkstorn

Towns

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Creatures

Dungeon creatures

Level 1

Troglodyte

Infernal Troglodyte

Level 2

Harpy

Harpy Hag

Level 3

Beholder

Evil Eye

Level 4

Medusa

Medusa Queen

Level 5

Minotaur

Minotaur King

Level 6

Manticore

Scorpicore

Level 7

Red Dragon

Black Dragon

Towns

Name	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special

Troglodyte Troglodyte	1	4	3	1	3	5	4	14	59	50		Immune to Blinding
Infernal Troglodyte Infernal Troglodyte	1⁺	5	4	1	3	6	5	14	84	65		Immune to Blinding
Harpy Harpy	2	6	5	1	4	14	6	8	154	130		Flying, Strike and return
Harpy Hag Harpy Hag	2⁺	6	6	1	4	14	9	8	238	170		Flying, Strike and return, No enemy retaliation
Beholder Beholder	3	9	7	3	5	22	5	7	336	250		Ranged (12 shots), No melee penalty
Evil Eye Evil Eye	3⁺	10	8	3	5	22	7	7	367	280		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty
Medusa Medusa	4	9	9	6	8	25	5	4	517	300		Ranged (4 shots), No melee penalty, Petrify
Medusa Queen Medusa Queen	4⁺	10	10	6	8	30	6	4	577	330		Ranged (8 shots), No melee penalty, Petrify
Minotaur Minotaur	5	14	12	12	20	50	6	3	835	500		Positive Morale
Minotaur King Minotaur King	5⁺	15	15	12	20	50	8	3	1068	575		Positive Morale
Manticore Manticore	6	15	13	14	20	80	7	2	1547	850		Flying
Scorpicore Scorpicore	6⁺	16	14	14	20	80	11	2	1589	1050		Flying, Paralyze
Red Dragon Red Dragon	7	19	19	40	50	180	11	1	4702	2500	1	Dragon, Flying, Breath attack, 1-3 lvl spells immunity
Black Dragon Black Dragon	7⁺	25	25	40	50	300	15	1	8721	4000	2	Dragon, Flying, Breath attack, Magic immunity, Hates Titans

List of all creatures

Additional Information

Alignment: Evil
Native Terrain: Subterranean

Pros

Strong units
Two powerful ranged units, both of which have no melee penalty.
Mana Vortex: Doubles your max spell points once a week.
Can successfully do the famous "Dracageddon" tactic thanks to fast and powerful Black Dragons and Warlocks with high Spell Power.
The Battle Scholar Academy instantly levels up your starting heroes and can contribute to your seasoned heroes as well.
Three overpowered heroes: Jeddite, Alamar (both resurrection Speciality) and Gunnar (Logistics speciality)
Portal of summoning (See comments below)
Best creature ratio (see comments below)
The weekly income with Capitol and the Resource Silo is completely enough to recruit all the units without any external mines.

Cons

It is quite expensive to play as it needs many resources. This is especially noticeable on Impossible difficulty, because the Pillar of Eyes cost of one of each of the precious resources (Gems, Crystal, Sulfur and Mercury), which can be very hard to come up with early on.
Manticore/Scorpicore is arguably the weakest Level 6 unit (or the Wyvern is).
Along with Rampart town, this town has the hardest to build level 7 unit as all the lower level units plus the mage guild level 2 have to be built (compared to Portal of glory that doesn't require mage guild and can be built wothout level 3 and level 6 creature dwelling).

Comments

Overall, probably the Dungeon is the best town, as the advantages greatly overcome the inconvenients. Best creature ratio: 3 flying (2 of them are level 6 and 7!) and 2 good shooters. This makes sieges much easier. Very useful (maybe overpowered) abilities: Harpies with haste act as a ranged unit with no range penalty, there are 2 units who have 20% chance to petrify an enemy, Black dragons are completely immune to all spells thus cannot be blinded, slowed etc. or damaged by spells (also immunme to positive spells such as bless or resurrection but overall the spell immunity has more positive than negative outcomes). Portal of summoning: Manage wisely your dwellings and don't occupy the very fist Warren you encounter. If you have a higher level dungeon dwelling relatively close to your town (this occurs very often on random maps), this building is a great atvantage. For example if you have a Dragon Cave, and that is you ONLY dwelling, your weekly Dragon growth jumps from 2 to 5 (+1 in town because of the dwelling, the 1 that you purchase from the dwelling and the 1 that you buy from the portal).

Town Costs

["Basic" includes Citadel, Castle & any prerequisites:
"Upgrades" also includes prerequisites]

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	39900	26500	112400
	56	36	142
	66	31	142
	5	9	32
	15	12	45
	10	12	40
	30	34	82
Troop cost/week:		27205 4

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	Another level 7 town creature, the [[Phoenix]] has fire spell immunity only, but only dragons have full [[Spell immunity]] in terms of spell level ranges not energy types, save for [[Magic elemental]]s (depending on the game packs installed).		Another level 7 town creature, the [[Phoenix]] has fire spell immunity only, but only dragons have full [[Spell immunity]] in terms of spell level ranges not energy types, save for [[Magic elemental]]s (depending on the game packs installed).

	Only [[Dungeon]] and [[Rampart]] as well as [[Conflux]] town creatures are feasible for the use of level 7 creature only [[Armageddon]] tiger teams, which given level 7 creatures are fast on the adventure as well as the combat map, have high initiative and given [[Armageddon]] can fatally damage the opponent before it gets a chance to flee, often, giving victory, resulting in the opponents artefacts and less capable left heroes.		Only [[Dungeon]] ([[Black Dragon]]) and [[Rampart]] ([[Gold Dragon]]) as well as [[Conflux]] ([[Phoenix]]) town creatures are feasible for the use of level 7 creature only [[Armageddon]] tiger teams, which given level 7 creatures are fast on the adventure as well as the combat map, have high initiative and given [[Armageddon]] can fatally damage the opponent before it gets a chance to flee, often, giving victory, resulting in the opponents artefacts and less capable left heroes.