Crypt

Crypt
Picture
%	Guards	Content	XP
30 %	30 20	1500	480
30 %	25 20 5	2000	540
30 %	20 20 10 5	2500 Artifact (T)	750
10 %	20 20 10 10	5000 Artifact (T)	900
Visiting scheme
Event
You tentatively approach the burial crypt of ancient warriors. Do you want to search the graves? * * * Upon defeating the undead guardians you spend several hours searching the graves and find nothing. Such a despicable act reduces your army's morale.

Crypt is an adventure map location, and commonly known as one of the creature banks. It is guarded by 50–60 undead creatures, whose level varies from 1 to 4. The more guards there are, the better the reward. Treasure contains gold or sometimes a treasure class artifact.

The guards are divided into the stacks of:

A hex: 10/13/20/20 Skeletons
B hex: 10/10/20/20 Walking Dead
C hex: 10 Walking Dead/5/10/10 Wights
D hex: 10 Skeletons/10 Walking Dead/5/10 Vampires
E hex: 10/12 Skeletons/clear/clear

All the guard stacks of the same speed attack in alphabetic order: from A to E.

The hero's troops are located in blue hexes 1-7 (a tail hex for two-hexed creatures) according to stack positioning in the army slots 1-7. But if the hero has less than 7 stacks, e.g. 3, they will be placed in hexes 1-3 no matter how they were placed in the army slots.

Though war machines are not present on the battlefield, the infinite shots effect from Ammo Cart is active.

Slain enemies do not respawn (should the hero retreat or be defeated).

Searching the crypt after the guards have been defeated decreases morale by 1. Visiting additional crypts will not further decrease morale.

Guards preview

Guards	Guards preview (in HotA only)
30 %:  x30,  x20	Skeletons and Walking Dead
30 %:  x25,  x20,  x5	several (5-9) Wights
30 %:  x20,  x20,  x10,  x5	several (5-9) Vampires
10 %:  x20,  x20,  x10,  x10	pack (10-19) of Vampires

Default settings for random map generator

• Terrain: grass, dirt, snow, swamp, sand.
• Value: 1000.
• Density: 100.

See also:

• List of map objects