Castle

Fully built Castle, as seen on the adventure map Fully built Castle, as seen on the adventure map. (HotA)	Towns
	Castle
	Rampart
	Tower
	Inferno
	Necropolis
	Dungeon
	Stronghold
	Fortress
	Conflux
	Cove
	Factory

Castle is a good alignment town type with Knight and Cleric hero classes. Castle armies are primarily composed of human men-at-arms, though these towns have also formed an alliance with the griffins and are under the protection of angels. With two types of ranged attack units and two flying creature types available, Castle-based armies are well equipped to quickly engage and defeat their enemies. Castle represent Erathia.

Castle's native terrain is grass.

Structures

Castle creature dwellings:

• Guardhouse
• Archers' Tower
• Griffin Tower
• Barracks
• Monastery
• Training Grounds
• Portal of Glory

Castle specific buildings

• Brotherhood of the Sword – Increases morale by +2 when defending against siege. This is in addition to tavern's +1 resulting in a total morale bonus of +3.
• Griffin Bastion – Horde building which increases Griffins' growth by +3 per week.
• Lighthouse – Increase movement points by +500 when heroes travel on water tile with a boat. Requires Shipyard.
• Shipyard – Enables town to build a boat. Can only be built if town is adjacent to water.
• Stables – Gives visiting hero +400 movement points for each day for the rest of the week.
• Colossus – Grail building of Castle. Gives +2 morale to all player's heroes in addition to standard +5000 per day and creature growth +50%.

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

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	46000	29000	110000
	60	17	137
	50	22	122
	12	17	47
	12	12	42
	12	12	42
	12	12	42
Troop cost/week:		29580 + 6

Heroes

Name	Class			Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Orrin	Knight			Archery		Basic Leadership		Basic Archery
Valeska	Knight			Archers		Basic Leadership		Basic Archery
Edric	Knight			Griffins		Basic Leadership		Basic Armorer
Sylvia	Knight			Navigation		Basic Leadership		Basic Navigation
Beatrice	Knight			Scouting		Basic Leadership		Basic Scouting
Lord Haart	Knight			Estates		Basic Leadership		Basic Estates
Sorsha	Knight			Swordsmen		Basic Leadership		Basic Offense
Christian	Knight			Ballista		Basic Leadership		Basic Artillery
Tyris	Knight			Cavaliers		Basic Leadership		Basic Tactics
Catherine	Knight			Swordsmen		Basic Leadership		Basic Offense
Roland	Knight			Swordsmen		Basic Leadership		Basic Armorer
Sir Mullich	Knight			Speed		Advanced Leadership
Adela	Cleric			Bless		Basic Wisdom		Basic Diplomacy		Bless
Cuthbert	Cleric			Weakness		Basic Wisdom		Basic Estates		Weakness
Adelaide	Cleric			Frost Ring		Advanced Wisdom				Frost Ring
Ingham	Cleric			Monks		Basic Wisdom		Basic Mysticism		Curse
Sanya	Cleric			Eagle Eye		Basic Wisdom		Basic Eagle Eye		Dispel
Loynis	Cleric			Prayer		Basic Wisdom		Basic Learning		Prayer
Caitlin	Cleric			Gold		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Cure
Rion	Cleric			First Aid		Basic Wisdom		Basic First Aid		Stone Skin

Creatures

Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Pikeman  Pikeman		1	4	5	1	3	10	4	14	80	60		Immune to jousting
Halberdier  Halberdier		1+	6	5	2	3	10	5	14	115	75		Immune to jousting
Archer  Archer		2	6	3	2	3	10	4	9	126	100		Ranged (12 shots)
Marksman  Marksman		2+	6	3	2	3	10	6	9	184	150		Ranged (24 shots), Double attack
Griffin  Griffin		3	8	8	3	6	25	6	7	351	200		Flying, Two retaliations
Royal Griffin  Royal Griffin		3+	9	9	3	6	25	9	7	448	240		Flying, Unlimited retaliations
Swordsman  Swordsman		4	10	12	6	9	35	5	4	445	300
Crusader  Crusader		4+	12	12	7	10	35	6	4	588	400		Double attack
Monk  Monk		5	12	7	10	12	30	5	3	582 485	400		Ranged (12 shots)
Zealot  Zealot		5+	12	10	10	12	30	7	3	750	450		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty
Cavalier  Cavalier		6	15	15	15	25	100	7	2	1946	1000		Jousting
Champion  Champion		6+	16	16	20	25	100	9	2	2100	1200		Jousting
Angel  Angel		7	20	20	50	50	200	12	1	5019	3000	1	Flying, Hates Devils, Morale +1
Archangel  Archangel		7+	30	30	50	50	250	18	1	8776	5000	3	Flying, Hates Devils, Resurrection, Morale +1

Strategy

• Build the Capitol as soon as possible (preferably in the first week), because having lots of gold is crucial for raising many Archangels.
• Obtain and upgrade Portal of Glory by the cost of neglecting other dwellings and mage guild, or even recruiting other creatures.
• Divide your Archangels in many stacks, so they can resurrect each other, effectively doubling their numbers.
• Because Archangels have the greatest stats among all the 7th tier creatures, they are real die hards (and even when they get killed, they still can be resurrected) thus you may actually horde them much easier than any other 7th tier creatures! High level offensive hero (i.e. Sorsha or preferably Crag Hack) equipped with Archangels will easily overcome more numerous enemies.

Pros

• Many useful creature specialties:
  • Marksman shoots twice
  • Royal Griffin do always retaliates (Griffin retaliates twice)
  • Crusader strikes twice
  • Cavalier has jousting bonus
  • Archangel can resurrect
• Versatile units including two flying units, two ranged units
• Stables can provide heroes +400 movement points per day, which means roughly +20% more movement for heroes.

Cons

• Second most expensive town, Tower being the most. Hard to obtain the required 6 gems/week, without a pond or Tower town with a Resource Silo providing them.
• The 6th tier dwelling, Training Grounds is the extremely hard to build, as it requires 30 woods.
• No units with immunity or resistance.
• Magic, Mage Guild is limited to level 4.