Dungeon

Fully built Dungeon as seen on the adventure map in Shadow of Death  Fully built Dungeon as seen on the adventure map in Horn of the Abyss	Towns
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	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

Dungeon is an evil alignment town with warlock and overlord hero classes. Dungeon represents Nighon.

"Dungeons towns are built by Warlock and Overlord hero types to act as bases from which to wage campaigns of conquest for wealth and power. Similarly minded creatures are attracted as allies. Other Dungeon creatures are in thrall to their masters. Dungeon armies are possessed of a variety of long range attacks, have effective damage dealing troops, and have the ability to greatly disrupt the strategies of their enemies." ^{RoE manual}

Dungeon's native terrain is subterranean.

Dungeon creature dwellings

• Warren - (Troglodyte, Infernal Troglodyte)
• Harpy Loft - (Harpy, Harpy Hag)
• Pillar of Eyes - (Beholder, Evil Eye)
• Chapel of Stilled Voices - (Medusa, Medusa Queen)
• Labyrinth - (Minotaur, Minotaur King)
• Manticore Lair - (Manticore, Scorpicore)
• Dragon Cave - (Red Dragon, Black Dragon)

Dungeon specific buildings

• Artifact Merchants - (allows heroes to buy or sell artifacts)
• Portal of Summoning - (unique building, get creatures from a flagged neutral dwelling)
• Mana Vortex - (unique building, +100% mana and mana capacity to one hero every 7 days)
• Battle Scholar Academy - (unique building, gives +1000 experience to any visiting hero)
• Guardian of Earth - (Grail Building) (+12 spell power to defending hero, +5k gold, +50% creature growth)
• Mushroom Rings - (Troglodyte horde building, +7/week)

Dungeon building tree

Fully upgraded Dungeon

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	39900	26500	112400
	56	36	142
	66	31	142
	5	9	32
	15	12	45
	10	12	40
	30	30	82
Troop cost/week:		27205 + 4

Common buildings

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

Heroes

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Dungeon heroes (Shadow of Death)
Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Lorelei	Overlord			Harpies		Basic Leadership		Basic Scouting
Arlach	Overlord			Ballista		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Dace	Overlord			Minotaurs		Basic Tactics		Basic Offense
Ajit	Overlord			Beholders		Basic Leadership		Basic Resistance
Ajit	Overlord			Beholders		Basic Leadership		Basic Interference
Damacon	Overlord			Gold		Advanced Offense
Gunnar	Overlord			Logistics		Basic Tactics		Basic Logistics
Synca	Overlord			Manticores		Basic Leadership		Basic Scholar
Shakti	Overlord			Troglodytes		Basic Offense		Basic Tactics
Alamar	Warlock			Resurrection		Basic Wisdom		Basic Scholar		Resurrection
Jaegar	Warlock			Mysticism		Basic Wisdom		Basic Mysticism		Shield
Malekith	Warlock			Sorcery		Basic Wisdom		Basic Sorcery		Bloodlust
Jeddite	Warlock			Resurrection		Advanced Wisdom				Resurrection
Geon	Warlock			Eagle Eye		Basic Wisdom		Basic Eagle Eye		Slow
Deemer	Warlock			Meteor Shower		Basic Wisdom		Advanced Scouting		Meteor Shower
Deemer	Warlock			Meteor Shower		Basic Wisdom		Basic Scouting		Meteor Shower
Sephinroth	Warlock			Crystal		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Protection from Air
Darkstorn	Warlock			Stone Skin		Basic Wisdom		Basic Learning		Stone Skin

Dungeon heroes (Horn of the Abyss)
Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell

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.

Necromancy and Water Magic are not available for overlords.

Necromancy, Resistance and Interference  are not available for warlocks.

Creatures

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Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Troglodyte  Troglodyte		1	4	3	1	3	5	4	14	59	50		Immune to Blinding
Infernal Troglodyte Infernal Troglodyte		1+	5	4	1	3	6	5	14	84	65		Immune to Blinding
Harpy  Harpy		2	6	5	1	4	14	6	8	154	130		Flying, Strike and return
Harpy Hag  Harpy Hag		2+	6	6	1	4	14	9	8	238	170		Flying, Strike and return, No enemy retaliation
Beholder  Beholder		3	9	7	3	5	22	5	7	336	250		Ranged (12 shots), No melee penalty
Evil Eye  Evil Eye		3+	10	8	3	5	22	7	7	367	280		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty
Medusa  Medusa		4	9	9	6	8	25	5	4	517	300		Ranged (4 shots), No melee penalty, Petrify
Medusa Queen  Medusa Queen		4+	10	10	6	8	30	6	4	577	330		Ranged (8 shots), No melee penalty, Petrify
Minotaur  Minotaur		5	14	12	12	20	50	6	3	835	500		Positive Morale
Minotaur King  Minotaur King		5+	15	15	12	20	50	8	3	1068	575		Positive Morale
Manticore  Manticore		6	15	13	14	20	80	7	2	1547	850		Flying
Scorpicore  Scorpicore		6+	16	14	14	20	80	11	2	1589	1050		Flying, Paralyze
Red Dragon  Red Dragon		7	19	19	40	50	180	11	1	4702	2500	1	Dragon, Flying, Breath attack, 1-3 lvl spells immunity
Black Dragon  Black Dragon		7+	25	25	40	50	300	15	1	8721	4000	2	Dragon, Flying, Breath attack, Magic immunity, Hates Titans

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• Upgrade the level 2 creature dwelling as soon as possible: Harpy Hags have a huge speed increase (6->9) and gain no retaliation.

• Upgrading Medusas to Medusa Queens is more crucial than Beholders to Evil Eyes, because a Medusa Queen has eight instead of four shots, while a Beholder already has twelve. Getting an Ammo Cart (from Inferno's, Stronghold's or Tower's Blacksmith, or at a War Machine Factory), will help a lot, since Medusa Queen's eight shoots are still not sufficient for a fierce battle.

• Bless your Harpies/Harpy Hags (Dungeon has a 19% chance to get Bless). Harpies/Harpy Hags have damage range 1–4. Instead of on average 2.5, with basic (advanced) Water Magic they will consistently do 4 (5) damage, a 60% (100%) increase. Similarly, Curse the enemy's Harpies/Harpy Hags (Slow would also be useful since Harpy Hags have a decent speed).

• Haste your Minotaurs/Minotaur Kings. They are brutes which do a lot of damage and you want them to strike at the enemy as soon as possible. In addition a hasted Minotaur King can reach nearly any point of the battlefield given no obstacles.

• Beware of Red and Black Dragons' breath attack which can damage your own troops. If you have both Black Dragons and Titans in the army, due to reciprocal hate Black Dragons will do 150% damage on their own Titans having attacked them by mistake.

• Having only Black Dragons in your army, you may rush through the map with Dragogeddon manoeuvre. Red Dragons cannot be used for Dragogeddon as they are susceptible to 4-5 level spells.

• Spells not appearing in a Dungeon Mage Guild are Death Ripple (damage to all living creatures) and Animate Dead (resurrecting undead) (both more of a Necropolis thing), Prayer (attack, defense and speed enhancement by 2 or 4 points) and Air Elemental (one of the four elemental summoning spells).

• Dungeon is expensive to build, has good magical capabilities (e.g. Mana Vortex and level 5 Mage Guild) and powerful troops like black dragons, which are among the strongest creatures in Erathia.

• If there is a high level creature dwelling which can be conquered early, it may be beneficial to wait flagging other creature dwellings. This allows to recruit the high level creatures every week from both the Portal of Summoning and the dwelling itself. The Portal of Summoning selects its units every week randomly from all creature dwellings you have flagged. For example, if there are Red Dragons and Troglodytes available on the adventure map, it is beneficial to not flag the Troglodyte dwellings to recruit more Dragons.

• Playing against Tower which has Titans who hate Black Dragons, try to use the following tactics so as to avoid Black Dragons' losses (see Cons). If Titans are behind someone else, attack that unit with Black Dragons, and breath attack will do 150% damage against Titans due to Black Dragons' hate against them. It works even if Black Dragons targeted another stack, and Titans won't retaliate.

• Strategy Guide for Dungeon from Jolly Joker on Celestial Heavens

Pros

• Two ranged units, both of which have no melee penalty.
• Mana Vortex: doubles your max spell points once a week.
• Black Dragons are immune to all damage or debuffing spells.
• Armageddon spell is available in Dungeon, unlike Rampart or Conflux which also have units immune to it.
• Warlocks gain more Spell Power than other hero classes.
• Harpy Hags are among the best 2 level units.
• The Battle Scholar Academy instantly levels-up starting heroes.
• Powerful heroes, e.g. Gunnar with Logistics specialty, and Jeddite and Alamar with Resurrection spell.
• Portal of Summoning may be used to gain additional creatures.
• The weekly income with Capitol and the Resource Silo is enough to recruit all the units without any external mines.
• On a map with two layers, Dungeon will get a huge advantage as any battle in the underground will be fought on subterranean terrain, thus Dungeon units will get speed bonus.
• Dungeon is the only evil town where Bless is not banned.
• Dungeon doesn't suffer too much from being slowed down, as only basic Troglodytes have speed 4 (while Rampart, Tower, and Stronghold have some prominent units with speed 3-4).

Cons

• Dungeon is quite expensive to build it up.
• Manticores are one of the weakest level 6 units, have low HP, and even when upgraded to Scorpicores they are significantly weaker than Naga Queens or Dread Knights. Scorpicores are also quite too expensive for their strength, costing more than War Unicorns.
• Black Dragons are immune to any benevolent spells, including Resurrection.
• Moreover, Black Dragons are slower than upgraded 7th level units of Castle, Rampart, Inferno, and Conflux. They are immune to Haste and Prayer, which allows Necropolis and Fortress to overtake Dungeon by top speed as well. Finally, their dwelling is very expensive.
• Basic Pillar of Eyes which is level 3 creature dwelling requires each type of resource, and is necessary to build all higher level creature dwellings. To hire shooters, you should have all types of resource as 1-2 level units are not ranged. It makes Dungeon possibly the worst town for playing on Impossible level.
• Though Dungeon has many strong protagonists, it has many issues with heroes as well. Many heroes (Darkstorn, Deemer, Geon, Jaegar, Lorelei) have secondary skills which aren't that useful, and there is no one who specializes in Medusas, who are the only 4th level units without a specialist. Besides that, overlords cannot learn Water Magic, therefore being unable to cast Bless on the entire army, while many Dungeon units have significant damage range (especially Harpies and Minotaurs).
• If the map has only one layer, Dungeon will get a disadvantage since subterranean terrain is used rarely without underground layer, and in most cases any other faction will get a speed bonus unlike Dungeon.
• Beware Titans who hate Black Dragons. Titans and Black Dragons have similar stats, possibly sharing 2nd-3rd place in the whole game after Archangels, but Titans have an opportunity to shoot Black Dragons to death, and if Black Dragons force them to melee (which is possible as Black Dragons are faster), Titans will still do 150% damage by retaliation. Impossibility of Black Dragons' resurrection makes it a big problem.
• Prayer is banned, while this spell may help Red Dragons (but not Black) a lot since they're immune to Bless, Bloodlust, and Haste. (Rampart's Green Dragons are susceptible to Prayer as well, and in Rampart this spell is available.)
• Subterranean which is Dungeon's native terrain doesn't give any movement penalty to the enemy.

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See also

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