Leadership

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Leadership
	Basic Leadership: increases your hero's troops' morale by 1.
	Advanced Leadership: increases your hero's troops' morale by 2.
	Expert Leadership: increases your hero's troops' morale by 3.

Classes unable to learn Leadership:

(They can only acquire the skill from Scholars, Witch Huts (if allowed by a map-maker), Seer's Huts, Events or Pandora's Boxes).

• Death Knights
• Necromancers

Heroes with Leadership as a starting skill:

• All Knights start with Basic Leadership (except Sir Mullich, who starts with Advanced Leadership)
•   Mephala the Ranger
•   Ryland the Ranger
•   Gelu the Ranger
•   Xeron the Demoniac
•   Xarfax the Heretic
•   Lorelei the Overlord
•   Ajit the Overlord
•   Synca the Overlord
•   Vey the Battle Mage
•   Drakon the Beastmaster
•   Derek the Captain 
•   Henrietta the Mercenary 
•   Melchior the Mercenary 

Chance to get

Out of total 112 for Shadow of Death, and of (112 + Interference chance) for Horn of the Abyss .
Banned skills change the probability.

Town	Class	Chance to learn
Castle	Knight	10 (highest)
Castle	Cleric	2
Rampart	Ranger	6
Rampart	Druid	2
Tower	Alchemist	3
Tower	Wizard	4
Inferno	Demoniac	3
Inferno	Heretic	2
Necropolis	Death Knight	0 (impossible)
Necropolis	Necromancer	0 (impossible)
Dungeon	Overlord	8
Dungeon	Warlock	3
Stronghold	Barbarian	5
Stronghold	Battle Mage	4
Fortress	Beastmaster	5
Fortress	Witch	1
Conflux	Planeswalker	3
Conflux	Elementalist	3
Cove	Captain	6
Cove	Navigator	2
Factory	Mercenary	5
Factory	Artificer	2

Artifacts

Artifacts on the adventure map may be restricted to only be able to be picked up by heroes who have the Leadership skill. When attempting to get the artifact with a hero without the skill, the following message will be displayed:

You've come across the spartan quarters of a retired soldier. The soldier tells you that he is willing to pass on the <artifact name> to the first true leader he meets.

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Whether to use Leadership or not, depends of a map. If it is fully dedicated to one faction (Tower, Inferno, Stronghold), or if there is only one player on it, Leadership is not the most important skill, as in most cases, you'll have positive morale, because all your troops are from the same town. On a map with many types of towns, it works, especially when you capture a Necropolis and summon undead who decrease morale (pity that Leadership is completely unavailable for Necropolis heroes, therefore summoned troops from other towns will have bad morale - unless a Death Knight or Necromancer gets Leadership on the map, e.g. in a Witch Hut; and during a siege, Tavern will help even in Necropolis). Aside from Necropolis, the town for which Leadership is the least important is Conflux as Elementals are immune to morale.

Leadership is a mediocre secondary skill, which is not among the worst skills but not among the best either. Although an extra attack turn in combat round due to a high morale for the right creatures stack can swing the odds in a battle, getting the extra attacks is a just over 10% chance at best. It sees better use in the hands of Heroes leading mixed armies or any other situations where gaining high morale is for whatever reason a problem (which is almost never the case on pre-generated maps).

Things that ruin Leadership

• Spirit of Oppression
• Pendant of Courage
• Having Undead, Elementals or Golems in army

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See also:

• Secondary skills