Griffin and Royal Griffin

Castle creatures
Level 1
Pikeman
Halberdier
Level 2
Archer
Marksman
Level 3
Griffin
Royal Griffin
Level 4
Swordsman
Crusader
Level 5
Monk
Zealot
Level 6
Cavalier
Champion
Level 7
Angel
Archangel
Towns

Statistics
Griffin
Cost per troop  200
	Attack 8 Defense 8 Damage 3–6 Health 25 Speed 6 Movement Flying Size 2 Growth 7 (+3) AI Value 351
Special abilities:
• Two retaliations
Royal Griffin
Cost per troop  240
	Attack 9 Defense 9 Damage 3–6 Health 25 Speed 9 Movement Flying Size 2 Growth 7 (+3) AI Value 448
Special abilities:
• Unlimited retaliations
Portraits

Griffins and Royal Griffins are the level 3 creatures of Castle. They can be recruited from Griffin Towers.

"Griffins roost in special towers built for them on the castle grounds. Standard griffins are able to counterstrike against two attackers per turn. Royal griffins can counterstrike an unlimited number of attackers." ^{RoE manual}

Tactics and info

Griffins are fast flying units with relatively high health, an interesting special ability, and quite a good growth rate if you build the Griffin Bastion. However, they have rather low damage. Royal griffins make decent siege attacker due to their unlimited retaliations, which allows them to fly over the walls and give hits in the counter attacks.

Heroes with a specialty

• Edric the Knight has griffins as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any griffins for each level attained after 3rd level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

See also:

• List of creatures

• Griffin Conservatory