Behemoth and Ancient Behemoth

Stronghold creatures
Level 1
Goblin
Hobgoblin
Level 2
Wolf Rider
Wolf Raider
Level 3
Orc
Orc Chieftain
Level 4
Ogre
Ogre Mage
Level 5
Roc
Thunderbird
Level 6
Cyclops
Cyclops King
Level 7
Behemoth
Ancient Behemoth
Towns

Statistics
Behemoth
Cost per troop  1500
	Attack 17 Defense 17 Damage 30–50 Health 160 Speed 6 Movement Ground Size 2 Growth 1 AI Value 3162
Special abilities:
• Attack reduces enemy's defense by 40% temporarily
Ancient Behemoth
Cost per troop  3000 1
	Attack 19 Defense 19 Damage 30–50 Health 300 Speed 9 Movement Ground Size 2 Growth 1 AI Value 6168
Special abilities:
• Attack reduces enemy's defense by 80% temporarily
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Behemoths and Ancient Behemoths are level 7 creatures of Stronghold town. They are recruited from the Behemoth Lair (while the external dwelling is Behemoth Crag).

"The attack of these giant creatures is so overwhelming it reduces their target's ability to mount further defenses. The attack of the behemoth reduces target defense value by 40%. Ancient behemoth attacks reduce it by 80%." ^{RoE manual}

Heroes with a specialty

• Kilgor the Barbarian has behemoths as a specialty, which gives them +5 Attack, +5 Defense and +10 Damage.

Tactics and info

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The defense is reduced only for the behemoths' attack, and is returned to normal immediately after that.

An Ancient Behemoth is among the few recruitable level 7 creatures that can defeat an Archangel in one-on-one combat, another example being the Haspid from Horn of the Abyss expansion. (A Titan can also defeat an Archangel one-on-one by defending 4 times and then attacking).

Analysis of the specialty ability

They ignore 40%/80% of the opponents defense. Depending on their attack value to the opponents defense Value, there are two scenarios:

• Scenario I: The Behemoths have more attack than the defending creature (then, every attack they have more than the defending creature incraeses their damage by 5%)
• Scenario II: The Behemoths have less attack than the defending creature (then, every defense the defending creature has more decreases the damage taken by 2.5%)

Now, let's see how much this is for some attack/defense values:

See also:

• List of creatures