Crypt

Crypt
%	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
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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 a Creature Bank located on the Adventure Map.

The guards are divided into five stacks (red hexes). There is a 50% chance of getting an upgraded stack in the lower left corner (C hex). All the guard stacks of the same speed attack in alphabetic order of these hexes. 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. 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, they still provide their passive bonuses (i.e. the infinite shots effect from Ammo Cart and the First Aid/First Aid Tent health boost  ).

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).

In Horn of the Abyss, the object's level can be preset by a map-maker and the upgraded stack option may be toggled on or off.

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.

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).

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

Guards preview

Guards	Guards preview (in HotA only)
30 %:  x30,  x20	lots (20-49) of Skeletons and lots (20-49) of Walking Dead
30 %:  x25,  x20,  x5	lots (20-49) of Skeletons, lots (20-49) of Walking Dead and several (5-9) Wights
30 %:  x20,  x20,  x10,  x5	lots (20-49) of Skeletons, lots (20-49) of Walking Dead, a pack (10-19) of Wights and several (5-9) Vampires
10 %:  x20,  x20,  x10,  x10	lots (20-49) of Skeletons, lots (20-49) of Walking Dead, a pack (10-19) of Wights and a pack (10-19) of Vampires

In all of the above cases the hint on the on the status bar says guarded by a Horde (50-99) of creatures.

Default settings for random map generator

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

See Also:

• List of map objects
• Map Editor