Black Knight and Dread Knight

Necropolis creatures
Level 1
Skeleton
Skeleton Warrior
Level 2
Walking Dead
Zombie
Level 3
Wight
Wraith
Level 4
Vampire
Vampire Lord
Level 5
Lich
Power Lich
Level 6
Black Knight
Dread Knight
Level 7
Bone Dragon
Ghost Dragon
Towns

Statistics
Black Knight
Cost per troop  1200
	Attack 16 Defense 16 Damage 15–30 Health 120 Speed 7 Movement Ground Size 2 Growth 2 AI Value
Special abilities:
• Undead • Curses enemies
Dread Knight
Cost per troop  1500
	Attack 18 Defense 18 Damage 15–30 Health 120 Speed 9 Movement Ground Size 2 Shots N/A Growth 2 AI Value
Special abilities:
• Undead • Curses enemies • Death blow attack
Portraits

Black and Dread Knights are level 6 creatures of Necropolis town. They are recruited from the Hall of Darkness.

Both knights have a 20% chance of cursing opponents they strike. Cursed creatures inflict only minimum damage in their own attacks. Dread knights' attacks also have a 20% chance of inflicting double damage death blows.

Black Knights have an AI Value of 2087, while Dread Knights have an AI Value of 2382.

Special ability

Black and dread knights curse ability behaves slightly different from the Curse spell as it is not considered fire school spell. This is due to a fact that the ability is not affected by Fiery Fields terrain, and creatures with immunity to fire magic (e.g. Fire Elementals) are not affected by it. However, the ability is affected by the Magic Plains.