Conflux

Fully built Conflux, as seen on the adventure map Fully built Conflux, as seen on the adventure map. (HotA)	Towns
	Castle
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

The Conflux is a neutral alignment town with a focus on magic and magic-related units. The Conflux is the home of Elementalists and Planeswalkers and most of its units are Elementals. Statistically, the conflux's higher tier units are weaker than average. However, this is compensated by their strong low tier units, which gives the conflux an advantage over the other factions in the early game.

Conflux's native terrain is grass. The unofficial expansion, Horn of the Abyss, gives Conflux a unique native terrain called highlands.

Structures

Halls		Fortifications		Miscellaneous		Mage Guilds		Banned spells
Village Hall	Village Hall (existing)	Fort	Fort 20 20 5000	Tavern	Tavern   5             500	Mage Guild level 1	Mage Guild level 1   5     5         2000
File:Town Hall large.gif	Town Hall 2500	Citadel	Citadel 5 2500	Marketplace	Marketplace   5             500	Mage Guild level 2	Mage Guild level 2   5   4   5   4   4   4   1000
City Hall	City Hall 5000	Castle	Castle 10 10 5000	Resource Silo	Resource Silo ()       5         5000	Mage Guild level 3	Mage Guild level 3   5   6   5   6   6   6   1000
Capitol	Capitol 10000			Blacksmith	Blacksmith 5 1000 link={{{smith}}} link={{{smith}}}	Mage Guild level 4	Mage Guild level 4   5   8   5   8   8   8   1000
						Mage Guild level 5	Mage Guild level 5   5   10   5   10   10   10   1000
Total Common Buildings:					45     40         37000	Total Mage Guild:	15   10   15   10   10   10   4000   20   18   20   18   18   18   5000   25   28   25   28   28   28   6000

Conflux Specific Buildings:

• Magic University (unique Conflux building, learn any of the four magic secondary skills)
• Artifact Merchants (like Dungeon or Tower, buy artifact)
• Garden of Life (Pixie/Sprite horde building)
• Shipyard
• Aurora Borealis (Grail building, all spells of the map available in Mage Guild, +5k gold, +50% creature growth)

Conflux creature dwellings:

• Magic Lantern
• Altar of Air
• Altar of Water
• Altar of Fire
• Altar of Earth
• Altar of Thought
• Pyre

Conflux town seen from inside

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	71300	25500	96800
	25	12	145
	45	20	140
	2	3	33
	2	5	35
	12	35	75
	2	8	38
Troop cost/week:		28500 + 4

Heroes

Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Pasis	Planeswalker			Psychic Elementals		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Thunar	Planeswalker			Earth Elementals		Basic Tactics		Basic Estates
Ignissa	Planeswalker			Fire Elementals		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Lacus	Planeswalker			Water Elementals		Advanced Tactics
Monere	Planeswalker			Psychic Elementals		Basic Offense		Basic Logistics
Erdamon	Planeswalker			Earth Elementals		Basic Tactics		Basic Estates
Fiur	Planeswalker			Fire Elementals		Advanced Offense
Kalt	Planeswalker			Water Elementals		Basic Tactics		Basic Learning
Luna	Elementalist			Fire Wall		Basic Wisdom		Basic Fire Magic		Fire Wall
Brissa	Elementalist			Haste		Basic Wisdom		Basic Air Magic		Haste
Ciele	Elementalist			Magic Arrow		Basic Wisdom		Basic Water Magic		Magic Arrow
Labetha	Elementalist			Stone Skin		Basic Wisdom		Basic Earth Magic		Stone Skin
Inteus	Elementalist			Bloodlust		Basic Wisdom		Basic Fire Magic		Bloodlust
Aenain	Elementalist			Disrupting Ray		Basic Wisdom		Basic Air Magic		Disrupting Ray
Gelare	Elementalist			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Water Magic		Dispel
Grindan	Elementalist			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Earth Magic		Slow

Creatures

Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Pixie   Pixie		1	2	2	1	2	3	7	20	55	25		Flying
Sprite   Sprite		1+	2	2	1	3	3	9	20	95	30		Flying, No enemy retaliation
Air Elemental   Air Elemental		2	9	9	2	8	25	7	6	356	250		Elemental, Lightning and Armageddon vulnerability, Immune to Meteor Shower, +100% to basic damage to Earth and Magma Elementals
Storm Elemental   Storm Elemental		2+	9	9	2	8	25	8	6	486	275		Ranged (24 shots), Elemental, Lightning and Armageddon vulnerability, Immune to Meteor Shower, +100% to basic damage to Earth and Magma Elementals, Casts Protection from Air
Water Elemental   Water Elemental		3	8	10	3	7	30	5	6	315	300		Elemental, Ice immunity, Vulnerable to Fireball, Inferno and Armageddon, +100% to basic damage to Fire and Energy Elementals
Ice Elemental   Ice Elemental		3+	8	10	3	7	30	6	6	380	375		Ranged (24 shots), Elemental, Ice immunity, Vulnerable to Fireball, Inferno and Armageddon, +100% to basic damage to Fire and Energy Elementals, Casts Protection from Water
Fire Elemental   Fire Elemental		4	10	8	4	6	35	6	5	345	350		Elemental, Ice vulnerability, Fire immunity, +100% to basic damage to Water and Ice Elementals
Energy Elemental   Energy Elemental		4+	12	8	4	6	35	8	5	470	400		Elemental, Flying, Ice vulnerability, Fire immunity, +100% to basic damage to Water and Ice Elementals, Casts Protection from Fire
Earth Elemental   Earth Elemental		5	10	10	4	8	40	4	4	330	400		Elemental, Meteor Shower vulnerability, Lightning and Armageddon immunity, +100% to basic damage to Air and Storm Elementals
Magma Elemental   Magma Elemental		5+	11	11	6	10	40	6	4	490	500		Elemental, Meteor Shower vulnerability, Lightning and Armageddon immunity, +100% to basic damage to Air and Storm Elementals, Casts Protection from Earth
Psychic Elemental   Psychic Elemental		6	15	13	10	20	75	7	2	1669	950 750		Elemental, Attacks all adjacent enemies without retaliation, -50% damage to creatures with Mind immunity
Magic Elemental   Magic Elemental		6+	15	13	15	25	80	9	2	2012	1200 800		Elemental, Attacks all adjacent enemies without retaliation, Magic immunity, -50% damage to creatures with Magic immunity
Firebird   Firebird		7	18	18	30	40	150	15	1 2	4336 4547	2000 1500		Flying, Breath attack, 50% fire resistance Fire immunity
Phoenix   Phoenix		7+	21	18	30	40	200	21	1 2	6721	3000 2000	1	Flying, Breath attack, Fire immunity, Rebirth

Strategy

• Upgrade your three first level creature dwellings as soon as possible: the upgraded versions are much better than the base versions (no retaliation against sprites; storm and ice elementals are range shooters).
• Both storm and ice elemental have a wide range of damage: 2-8 for storm elementals, 3-7 for ice elementals. It is both a curse and a blessing, literally speaking: you want to cast Bless on them but avoid having them Cursed as well.
• A simple Ring of Vitality makes your pixies/sprites 33% more durable; this plus a Vial of Lifeblood doubles their durability.

Pros

• Several great heroes
• Phoenixes are the fastest creature in the game, out-speeding all competition by a large margin, and also have a base growth of 2
• Many units unaffected by Mind spells
• All 4 top-level units immune to Armageddon, opening up for the Dracageddon tactic.
• Low level units are great for efficient map-clearing
• Magic University allows heroes to learn all 4 Magic secondary skills for 2000 Gold each.
• The Aurora Borealis is the best Grail building, handing out all spells
• The Elementals are unaffected by bad Morale

Cons

• No ranged units without upgrading
• Magma Elementals are the worst level 5 unit
• Energy Elementals are below average
• Many units have vulnerabilities to certain spells
• Cannot have Armageddon in the Mage Guild, decreasing the viability of Dracageddon
• The Elementals are unaffected by positive Morale
• All units are immune to resurrection except for level 1 and 7.

WARNING! This town is often considered too strong and thus is banned in many multiplayer games/tournaments.