Cove

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

Cove is a neutral alignment town with the Captain and Navigator hero classes. Cove represents Regna.

"Captains and Navigators use Coves as their bases of operation. Their armies are composed of diverse humans and marine monsters."

Cove's native terrain is swamp.

Cove building tree

Fully upgraded Cove

Building Category	Cost
Common	45     40         37000
Mage Guild	20   18   20   18   18   18   5000
Dwellings	85   5   65   40   19   9   54300
Unique	40     15         12000
Total Building Cost:	190   23   140   58   37   27   108300
Troop Cost / Week:	29935 , 4

Common Buildings and Mage Guild

Halls		Fortifications		Miscellaneous		Mage Guilds		Banned spells
	Village Hall (existing)		Fort 20 20 5000		Tavern   5             500		Mage Guild level 1   5     5         2000
	Town Hall 2500		Citadel 5 2500		Marketplace   5             500		Mage Guild level 2   5   4   5   4   4   4   1000
	City Hall 5000		Castle 10 10 5000		Resource Silo (1 )       5         5000		Mage Guild level 3   5   6   5   6   6   6   1000
	Capitol 10000				Blacksmith 5 1000		Mage Guild level 4   5   8   5   8   8   8   1000
Total Common Buildings:					45     40         37000	Total Mage Guild:	20   18   20   18   18   18   5000

Creature Dwellings

Structure		Base Cost	Upgrade Cost	Creature	Max Grw	Upg Cr Cost	Cost/ Week
	Nymph Waterfall	5     5         300	1000	Nymph  Oceanid	32	45	1440
	Shack	10             1000	5             1000	Crew Mate  Seaman	22	140	3080
	Frigate	10             1000	5             1500   5   5   5   5   5   5   3000	Pirate  Corsair  Sea Dog	14	375	5250
	Nest	5     2   2   2000	2   2   1500	Stormbird  Ayssid	11	325	3575
	Tower of the Seas	5     5     5     3000	5     2000	Sea Witch  Sorceress	6	565	3390
	Nix Fort	5     10         4000	5     5   5       3000	Nix  Nix Warrior	4	1300	5200
	Maelstrom	15     15   10       15000	15     15   20       15000	Sea Serpent  Haspid	2	4000 2	8000 4
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Total Dwelling Cost:		85   5   65   40   19   9   54300		Weekly Troop Cost:			29935 4

Unique Buildings

Structure		Effect	Cost
	Thieves' Guild	Opens 2 additional levels of information in Thieves' Guild.	5             500
	Shipyard	Allows building boats if the town has access to water.	20             2000
	Grotto	Visiting hero can sacrifice creatures/artifacts to gain experience.	15     15         7500
	Pub	Horde Building. Growth +4/week for  Crew Mate /  Seaman	1000
	Roost	Horde Building. Growth +3/week for  Stormbird /  Ayssid	1000
	Lodestar	Grail Structure. +5000 /day, +50% creature growth Makes any terrain native to all Cove units	n/a
Total Cost:			40     15         12000

Heroes

Cove heroes
Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Corkes	Captain			Offense		Basic Offense		Basic Pathfinding
Jeremy	Captain			Cannon		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Illor	Captain			Stormbirds		Basic Armorer		Basic Tactics
Derek	Captain			Crew Mates		Basic Offense		Basic Leadership
Elmore	Captain			Navigation		Advanced Navigation
Leena	Captain			Gold		Basic Pathfinding		Basic Estates
Anabel	Captain			Pirates		Basic Offense		Basic Archery
Cassiopeia	Captain			Nymphs		Basic Offense		Basic Tactics
Miriam	Captain			Scouting		Basic Logistics		Basic Scouting
Casmetra	Navigator			Sea Witches		Basic Wisdom		Basic Water Magic		Dispel
Eovacius	Navigator			Clone		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Clone
Spint	Navigator			Sorcery		Basic Wisdom		Basic Sorcery		Bless
Andal	Navigator			Crystal		Basic Wisdom		Basic Pathfinding		Slow
Manfred	Navigator			Fireball		Basic Wisdom		Basic Fire Magic		Fireball
Zilare	Navigator			Forgetfulness		Basic Wisdom		Basic Interference		Forgetfulness
Astra	Navigator			Cure		Basic Wisdom		Basic Luck		Cure
Dargem	Navigator			Air Shield		Basic Wisdom		Basic Tactics		Air Shield

Banned secondary skills:

Some skills are not available for certain hero classes, which means they can only acquire them from Scholars, Witch Huts (except for Necromancy and Leadership, if not allowed by a map-maker), Seer's Huts, Events or Pandora's Boxes.

Neither Cove hero classes can learn Necromancy.

Creatures

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Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Nymph   Nymph		1	5	2	1	2	4	6	16	57	35		Teleporting, Immune to ice
Oceanid   Oceanid		1+	6	2	1	3	4	8	16	75	45		Teleporting, Immune to ice
Crew Mate   Crew Mate		2	7	4	2	4	15	5	9	155	110
Seaman   Seaman		2+	8	6	3	4	15	6	9	174	140
Pirate   Pirate		3	8	6	3	7	15	6	7	312	225		Ranged (4 shots), No melee penalty
Corsair   Corsair		3+	10	8	3	7	15	7	7	407	275		Ranged (4 shots), No melee penalty, No enemy retaliation
Sea Dog   Sea Dog		3++	12	11	3	7	15	8	7	602	375		Ranged (12 shots), No melee penalty, No enemy retaliation, Accurate Shot
Stormbird   Stormbird		4	10	8	6	9	30	9	4	502	275		Flying
Ayssid   Ayssid		4+	11	8	6	10	30	11	4	645	325		Flying, Ferocity
Sea Witch   Sea Witch		5	12	7	10	14	35	6	3	790	515		Ranged (12 shots), Casts Weakness / Disrupting Ray
Sorceress   Sorceress		5+	12	9	10	16	35	7	3	852	565		Ranged (12 shots), Casts Weakness / Disrupting Ray
Nix   Nix		6	13	16	18	22	80	6	2	1415	1000		Ignores 30% of enemy attack value
Nix Warrior   Nix Warrior		6+	14	17	18	22	90	7	2	2116	1300		Ignores 60% of enemy attack value
Sea Serpent   Sea Serpent		7	22	16	30	55	180	9	1	3953	2200	1	Poisonous
Haspid   Haspid		7+	29	20	30	55	300	12	1	7220	4000	2	Poisonous, Revenge

Town names

Unless specified by the mapmaker, towns will generate with a random name. Cove towns will use one of these following names:

Brown's Bay	Downhaven	Hitchgrove	Jordanhall
Lakenshire	Lewindale	Nithenes	Noral
Port Crowland	Port Evendore	Rotunda	Sleepy Creek
Tartaglia	Walendale	Watergate	Westland Pier

If there are more Cove towns on the map than possible names, they will use names taken from other towns.

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Cove's strategy revolves around offensive powers, with troops having excellent attacking skills and Nix and Nix Warriors acting as tanks. Their tactics and strategies often involve Sea Dogs. Playing against Cove, force them into melee: otherwise they will easily kill your powerful units (which is especially harmful in Rampart and Dungeon as Gold and Black Dragons are immune to Resurrection). Forgetfulness is also a very strong debuff for Cove.

Pros:

• 2 fast ranged attackers, with very nice specialties.
• Strong and offensive units. (Cove units have the highest attack ratings of all town creatures).
• Sea Dogs with their ability can easily kill any creatures, including 7 level units, from a distance. Accurate shot is even better than Mighty Gorgons' Death stare, as it is a ranged attack, causing therefore no retaliation, and affects undead and non-living creatures unlike Death stare.
• Ayssids are very useful if someone has took the retaliation, as they may kill a unit twice with impunity.
• Only town with access to the powerful cannon.
• Native terrain is swamp, which makes it hard for other units to traverse.
• Cove has a shipyard, and Navigation is easily accessible which is useful on maps with big water areas (but useless on maps without water).

Cons:

• Fastest creature is Haspid with speed 12.
• Units and heroes relatively low on defence.
• Highly dependent on Ammo Carts due to extremely low amount of shots of Pirates until upgraded to Sea Dogs (4 shots); they are too fragile for melee. In long battles, Sea Witches' 12 shots are also insufficient, and they are completely useless in melee as they have extremely low Defense and HP. Cannon also has very few shots.
• A lot of resources is needed to fully upgrade Pirates. Otherwise, player won't get the Cove's primary unit, and before upgrade Pirates aren't the strongest even among 3 level ranged creatures (attack worse than Wood Elves).
• Both flying units are fragile.
• Mage Guild is limited to level 4.

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See also

• Town Comparison
• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)
• List of heroes
• List of heroes (HotA)