Gorgon and Mighty Gorgon
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 Dragon Fly
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 Basilisk
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 Greater Basilisk
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 Gorgon
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 Mighty Gorgon
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 Wyvern
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 Wyvern Monarch
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 Hydra
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 Chaos Hydra
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Gorgons and Mighty Gorgons are level 5 creatures of Fortress town. They are recruited from the Gorgon Lair.
"The sturdy gorgons attack with their acidic breath. The Mighty Gorgon has a death stare with a 10% chance per attack of killing 1 creature in a troop outright..." RoE manual
Special ability death stare
Mighty Gorgons have special ability death stare, which may occur after the stack has attacked, including retaliations. When the stack attacks, the successful death stare occurs before the enemy has a chance to retaliate. Every gorgon in the stack has 10% chance to cause death stare. Successful stare instantly kills the 'top' unit of a stack, leaving the new 'top' unit with full health. The stare cannot kill more enemies than 1/10th from the number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack rounded up. In other words, the stare of 1–10 Mighty Gorgons may only kill one enemy, while a stack of 11 might kill two.
Unlike most "magic" abilities, this works on Black Dragons, but not on the undead.
Calculation
PR% = 1 - 0,90^N
PR% = Chance to kill at least one enemy creature
N = Number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack
Creatures immune to death stare: Elementals:
Air and Storm Elementals
Water and Ice Elementals
Fire and Energy Elementals
Earth and Magma Elementals
Psychic and Magic Elementals
Undead:
Skeletons and Skeleton Warriors
Walking Dead and Zombies
Wights and Wraiths
Vampires and Vampire Lords
Liches and Power Liches
Black and Dread Knights
Bone and Ghost Dragons
Mummies
Gargoyles:
Golems:
Mechanicals:
Automatons and Sentinel Automatons 
Dreadnoughts and Juggernauts
Heroes with a specialty
Alkin the Beastmaster has gorgons as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any Gorgons or Mighty Gorgons for each level attained after 5th level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.
Overall Tactics
Mighty Gorgons are among the best overall level 5 creatures in the game, and certainly one of the highlights of the Fortress town. They can defend your Ranged attackers, or with a prayer or haste or even a cape of velocity can go blow for blow with creatures far stronger than them because of their good defense stat, high health and incredibly effective death stare ability. Ideal strategy is to get them on the strongest troop stack possible (Azure Dragons, Titans, etc.) and watch them level opponents far stronger in stats.