Dendroid Guard and Dendroid Soldier

Rampart creatures
Level 1
Centaur
Centaur Captain
Level 2
Dwarf
Battle Dwarf
Level 3
Wood Elf
Grand Elf
Level 4
Pegasus
Silver Pegasus
Level 5
Dendroid Guard
Dendroid Soldier
Level 6
Unicorn
War Unicorn
Level 7
Green Dragon
Gold Dragon
Towns

Statistics
Dendroid Guard
Cost per troop  350
	Attack 9 Defense 12 Damage 10–14 Health 55 Speed 3 Movement Ground Size 1 Growth 3 (+2) AI Value 517
Special abilities:
• Binding
Dendroid Soldier
Cost per troop  425
	Attack 9 Defense 12 Damage 10–14 Health 65 Speed 4 Movement Ground Size 1 Growth 3 (+2) AI Value 803
Special abilities:
• Binding
Portraits

Dendroid Guards and Dendroid Soldiers are level 5 creatures of Rampart, that are recruited from the Dendroid Arches.

"Slow and powerful dendroids bash their opponents with their wooden limbs. Those attacked by dendroids are snared in tangling roots and bound in place until the dendroids move or are killed." ^{RoE manual}

Tactics and info

With even lower speed than the dwarves, the dendroid guard and soldier are almost exclusively considered to be garrison units, because they will slow down any hero on the adventure map. However, it should be noted that they bear health almost equal to a level 6 wyvern, damage is not entirely bad, and also have good defense and ability.

Special ability

Dendroids' attack causes an enemy to bind to the ground, unable to move until the stack of dendroids that entangled them moves or perishes. The visual effect of binding is a bunch of roots appearing from the ground. Harpies are the exception because of their strike and return ability. They are bounded to the original hex they attacked from, and are not unbinded if the dendroid stack moves or dies.

Building the Dendroid Saplings increases dendroids' growth by 2 per week.

Heroes with a specialty

• Ryland the Ranger has dendroids as a specialty, which increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Dendroid Guards or Soldiers for each level attained after 5th level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

Horn of the Abyss

• In Horn of the Abyss Dendroid Soldier's appearance was fixed:
• File:Dendroid Soldier portrait.gif  File:Dendroid Soldier portrait (HotA).gif  

See also:

• List of creatures