Dungeon

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

Dungeon is one of the three evil alignment town types. As the manual states, Dungeons towns are built by Warlock and Overlord hero types to act as bases from which to wage campaigns of conquest for wealth and power. Similarly minded creatures are attracted as allies. Other dungeon creatures are in thrall to their masters. Dungeon armies are possessed of a variety of long ranged attacks, have effective damage dealing troops, and have the ability to greatly disrupt the strategies of their enemies. Dungeon represent Nighon.

Dungeon's native terrain is subterranean.

Structures

Dungeon-Specific Buildings:

• Artifact Merchants (like in Tower and Conflux towns)
• Portal of Summoning (unique Dungeon building, get creatures from a flagged neutral dwelling)
• Mana Vortex (unique Dungeon building, +100% mana and capacity (until the mana runs out, like a Magic Spring) to one hero every 7 days)
• Battle Scholar Academy (unique Dungeon building, like a learning stone)
• Guardian of Earth (Grail Building) (+12 spell power to defending hero Dungeon special, else 5k Gold each day additionally, +50% creature growth like other Grail buildings)
• Mushroom Rings, (Troglodyte horde building, +7/week)

Dungeon creature dwellings:

• Warren 14x Troglodyte (50 gold, 700 gold/week) or Infernal Troglodyte (65 gold, 900 gold/week) each week
• Harpy Loft 8x Harpy (130 gold, 1040 gold/week) or Harpy Hag (170 gold, 1360 gold/week) each week
• Pillar of Eyes 7x Beholder (250 gold, 1750 gold/week) or Evil Eye (280 gold,1960 gold each week)
• Chapel of Stilled Voices 4x Medusa (300 gold, 1200 gold/week) or Medusa Queen (330 gold, 1320 gold each week)
• Labyrinth 3x Minotaur (500 gold, 1500 gold each week) or Minotaur King (575 gold, each 1725 gold/week)
• Manticore Lair 2x Manticore (850 gold, 1700 gold/week) Scorpicore (1050 gold, 2100 gold each week)
• Dragon Cave 1x Red Dragon (2500 gold, 1 sulfur each week) or Black Dragon (4000 gold, 2 sulfur each week)

Dungeon town seen from inside

Resource	Basic	Upgrades	All
	39900	26500	112400
	56	36	142
	66	31	142
	5	9	32
	15	12	45
	10	12	40
	30	30	82
Troop cost/week:		27205 + 4

Heroes

Name	Class		Specialty		Skill 1		Skill 2		Spell
Ajit	Overlord		Beholders		Basic Leadership		Basic Resistance
Arlach	Overlord		Ballista		Basic Offense		Basic Artillery
Dace	Overlord		Minotaurs		Basic Tactics		Basic Offense
Damacon	Overlord		Gold		Advanced Offense
Gunnar	Overlord		Logistics		Basic Tactics		Basic Logistics
Lorelei	Overlord		Harpies		Basic Leadership		Basic Scouting
Shakti	Overlord		Troglodytes		Basic Offense		Basic Tactics
Synca	Overlord		Manticores		Basic Leadership		Basic Scholar
Mutare	Overlord		Dragons		Basic Estates		Basic Tactics		Magic Arrow
Mutare Drake	Overlord		Dragons		Basic Estates		Basic Tactics		Magic Arrow
Alamar	Warlock		Resurrection		Basic Wisdom		Basic Scholar		Resurrection
Darkstorn	Warlock		Stone Skin		Basic Wisdom		Basic Learning		Stone Skin
Deemer	Warlock		Meteor Shower		Basic Wisdom		Advanced Scouting		Meteor Shower
Geon	Warlock		Eagle Eye		Basic Wisdom		Basic Eagle Eye		Slow
Jaegar	Warlock		Mysticism		Basic Wisdom		Basic Mysticism		Shield
Jeddite	Warlock		Resurrection		Advanced Wisdom				Resurrection
Malekith	Warlock		Sorcery		Basic Wisdom		Basic Sorcery		Bloodlust
Sephinroth	Warlock		Crystal		Basic Wisdom		Basic Intelligence		Protection from Air

Creatures

Name	Town	Lvl	Att	Def	Dmg-	Dmg+	HP	Spd	Grw	AI Val	Cost		Special
Troglodyte		1	4	3	1	3	5	4	14	59	50		Immune to Blinding
Infernal Troglodyte		1+	5	4	1	3	6	5	14	84	65		Immune to Blinding
Harpy		2	6	5	1	4	14	6	8	154	130		Flying, Strike and return
Harpy Hag		2+	6	6	1	4	14	9	8	238	170		Flying, Strike and return, No enemy retaliation
Beholder		3	9	7	3	5	22	5	7	336	250		Ranged (12 shots), No melee penalty
Evil Eye		3+	10	8	3	5	22	7	7	367	280		Ranged (24 shots), No melee penalty
Medusa		4	9	9	6	8	25	5	4	517	300		Ranged (4 shots), No melee penalty, Petrify
Medusa Queen		4+	10	10	6	8	30	6	4	577	330		Ranged (8 shots), No melee penalty, Petrify
Minotaur		5	14	12	12	20	50	6	3	835	500		Positive Morale
Minotaur King		5+	15	15	12	20	50	8	3	1068	575		Positive Morale
Manticore		6	15	13	14	20	80	7	2	1547	850		Flying
Scorpicore		6+	16	14	14	20	80	11	2	1589	1050		Flying, Paralyze
Red Dragon		7	19	19	40	50	180	11	1	4702	2500	, 1	Dragon, Flying, Breath attack, 1-3 lvl spells immunity
Black Dragon		7+	25	25	40	50	300	15	1	8721	4000	, 2	Dragon, Flying, Breath attack, Magic immunity, Hates Titans

Strategy

• Upgrade your level 2 creature dwelling as soon as possible: harpy hags have a great base speed (9) and their attacks cannot be retaliated against.
• Haste your minotaurs/minotaur kings. They are brutes which do a lot of damage and you want them to strike at the enemy as soon as possible.
  • Plus, save obstacles, a hasted minotaur king can reach nearly any point of the battle field.

• Spells not appearing in a Dungeon Mage Guild are Death Ripple (all battlefield damage to living creatures) and Animate Dead (ressurecting undead) (both more of a Necropolis thing), Prayer (attack, defense and speed enhancement by 2 or 4 points) and Air Elemental (one of the four elemental summoning spells).

• The units would, given Orb of Vulnerability (because of the Black Dragons and their spell immunity to all spells) require 4th level Armageddon, Fire Magic at Expert and 4 spell power.

• Or, to not damage ones own units, the Armageddon's Blade (artifact), if tier 7 creatures of Rampart and some other immune units are not part of the opponent or can be killed later.

• Maybe Orb of Vulnerability and Armageddon's Blade (artifact) do not mix in terms of doing Armageddon on the opponent but not suffering from the battlefield-wide ill effects of the spell.

• Cities with Resource Silos that produce +1 Ore and +1 Wood each day like Castle (Angels are +1 gem, Archangels are +3 gems), Necropolis (only Ghost Dragons require minerals, 1 mercury each), Stronghold (Ancient Behemoths require 1 crystal) and Fortress (Chaos Hydras require Sulfur) might be better off in the beginning, a Dungeon town is self-sufficient in terms of minerals with a Resource Silo only lacking money to profit from level 7 creature growth safe plague.

• Although dungeon is quite expensive, it has good magical capabilities (e.g. mana vortex) and powerful troops like black dragons, which are among the strongest creatures in Erathia.

Pros

• Two ranged units, both of which have no melee penalty.
• Mana Vortex: doubles your max spell points once a week.
• Black Dragons are potential for "Dragogeddon" tactic because of their spell immunity. Additionally Warlock gain more power than other hero classes.
• The Battle Scholar Academy instantly levels-up starting heroes.
• Three powerful heroes: Gunnar with Logistics specialty, and Jeddite and Alamar with Resurrection spell
• Portal of summoning may be used to gain additional creatures
• The weekly income with Capitol and the Resource Silo is enough to recruit all the units without any external mines.

Cons

• Dungeon is quite expensive to build-up.
• Manticores and Scorpicores are one of the weakest level 6 units.
• Difficult to build level 7 creature dwelling