Sacrifice

School of Fire Magic

Level 1

Bloodlust

Curse

Magic Arrow *

Protection from Fire

Level 2

Blind

Fire Wall

Visions *

Level 3

Fireball

Land Mine

Misfortune

Level 4

Armageddon

Berserk

Fire Shield

Frenzy

Inferno

Slayer

Level 5

Sacrifice

Summon Fire Elemental

School of Air Magic

School of Earth Magic

School of Water Magic

Sacrifice
	School:	Fire Magic
	Level:	5th
	Cost:	25/20
	Duration:	permanent
Basic effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 3) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Advanced effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 6) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Expert effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 10) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Probability of occurrence (%):
Castle   0 Rampart   0 Tower   0 (0*) Inferno   20 Necropolis   16 Dungeon   12 Stronghold   0 Fortress   0 Conflux   0 Cove    0 Factory    0 * Without Library

Sacrifice is a 5th level spell in the School of Fire Magic. The spell destroys (sacrifices) the target living troop in order to resurrect creatures of another stack back to life. The other stack must be receptive to the Resurrection spell. A sacrificed stack leaves an empty hex on the battlefield without anything to be resurrected or summoned as Demons, i.e. without leaving a corpse for any uses.

Creatures immune to Sacrifice (or resurrection via Sacrifice):

• Undead
• Golems
• Elementals
• Mechanicals
•   Stone and Obsidian Gargoyles
•  Gold Dragon ^{*can be sacrificed but not resurrected} NOTE: In HotA , Gold Dragons can be resurrected with Sacrifice as both parts of the spell are now considered level 5.

•  Magic Elementals

•  Black Dragons
•   Efreet and Efreet Sultans

•   Fire and Energy Elementals
•  Firebirds ^{*(not in Horn of the Abyss)}  and  Phoenixes

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Typically, it is better to sacrifice a troop with a greater number of creatures than a troop with the same total health but fewer units.

Optimize sacrifice with resurrection spell.

Power															Notes
Health	1	1000	4	300	10	250	15	250	25	300	30	250	45	200
	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed
1	210	2/1050	53	2/422
7	510	6/5610	?(100)	...	50

(*)NOTE: All hit point restored is calculated based on:

• Expert proficiency in earth
• Basic proficiency in fire
• For Dragon, hero has Orb of Vulnerability
• Equation of resurrection spell: healed = 160 + power x 50
• Equation of sacrifice spell healed = n x power + ( n - 1 ) x health + current_health + n x 3

Optimize sacrifice with Archangel and clone spell.

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