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	2087

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
Growth	2
AI Value	2382

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.

"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." ^{RoE manual}

General Tactics and Info

The Dread Knights are considered to be the best level 6 unit, alongside the Naga Queens. They also have the highest attack, defense and health for a level 6 unit, accompanied by the largest damage range.

Abilities

Special ability curse

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.

Special ability death blow

Dread Knights' special ability death blow gives them 20% chance of dealing double base damage when attacking a creature stack. The game information states that Dread Knights would deal double damage when the death blow occurs, but that is not technically correct as it only doubles the base damage. In other words, bonuses from Offense, Luck or attack-defense difference are not doubled. See damage calculation for more specific information about the matter.

Heroes with a specialty

Tamika the Death Knight has black knights as a specialty, which increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Black Knights or Dread Knights for each level attained after 6th level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.
File:Hero Lord Haart Death Knight small.gif Lord Haart the Death Knight increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Black Knights or Dread Knights +5 and damage +10.