Editing Necropolis

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''"Necropolis towns are overrun and ruled by undead creatures. They are the natural bases for the Necromancer and Death Knight hero types. Necropolis armies have many units with abilities to weaken their opponents. This quickly gives them an edge over equal or even more powerful enemy armies."{{-}}^{[[Restoration of Erathia Manual Page 100|RoE manual]]''}

Necropolis' [[native terrain]] is [[dirt]].

==Heroes==

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{{Hero table row|Charna|image=Charna|Death{{-}}Knight|Wights|Basic Necromancy|Basic Tactics|spell=Magic Arrow}}

{{Hero table row|Clavius|image=Clavius|Death{{-}}Knight|Gold|Basic Necromancy|Basic Offense|spell=Magic Arrow}}

{{Hero table row|Tamika|image=Tamika|Death{{-}}Knight|Black Knights|Basic Necromancy|Basic Offense|spell=Magic Arrow}}

{{Hero table row|Vokial|image=Vokial|Death{{-}}Knight|Vampires|Basic Necromancy|Basic Artillery|spell=Stone Skin}}

{{Hero table row|Aislinn|image=Aislinn|Necromancer|Meteor Shower|Basic Necromancy|Basic Wisdom|spell=Meteor Shower}}

{{Hero table row|Nagash|image=Nagash|Necromancer|Gold|Basic Necromancy|Basic Intelligence|spell=Protection from Air}}

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Some skills are not available for certain hero classes, which means they can only acquire them from [[Scholar (Adventure Map)|Scholar]]s, [[Witch Hut]]s (except for [[Necromancy]] and [[Leadership]], if not allowed by a map-maker), [[Seer's Hut]]s, [[Event]]s or [[Pandora's Box]]es.

==Creatures==

{{Necropolis creature table}}

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{{user commentary|

* Harvesting leads to a situation, where it is profitable for heroes with Necromancy (mainly Death Knights and Necromancers) to carry through combats with wandering creatures instead of letting them flee if they are substantially less creatures and want to quit the battlefield. So, special months (see [[growth]]) where some creature types population doubles is actually a boon for Necropolis skeleton harvesters. This is especially valid for low-level creatures that come in large numbers, like hobgoblins. Random units blocking pathways on the map thus become a motivational boost because those wandering creatures mean additional [[Skeleton]]s.

*A variety of good heroes to choose from.

*A variety of strategies available.

*Unaffected by [[Mind spells]] like [[Elemental]]s, even [[Blind]] does not function on [[Undead]] units.

*[[Necromancy]] is a powerful secondary skill that only Necropolis town heroes can utilize effectively and that every [[Necropolis]] hero typically has. Given affordable [[Necromancy amplifier]] buildings (10% point building bonus to [[Necromancy]], '''unique''' town [[secondary skill]] boost building feature for all own heroes on the map, safe the [[Navigation]] centric building [[Lighthouse]] the only [[secondary skill]] bonus enhancer building available in the game) in [[Necropolis]] towns and a range of artifacts that further enhance the skill percentage like [[Vampire%27s_Cowl|Vampire's Cowl]] it is rather easy to recruit a small but steady number of [[Undead]] from most other creatures after fights. Every successful fight will increase the number of level 1 units one has even to astronomical amounts of stack sizes for steady motivation boosts after each encounter. [[Undead]] generally are [[Animate Dead]] resurrectable during combat additionally and the [[Skeleton Transformer]] in a [[Necropolis]] town can change foreign units to [[Skeleton]]s so mixing foreign units with [[Necropolis]] town units does not make them suffer [[morale]] penalty when converting them to [[Skeleton]]s first, one can recruit units off fights with the opponent and they are rather hard to kill and easily replenished given enough mana or [[Necromancy]] skill bonus points which are readily available via buildings or artifacts or even hero specials.

* The level 3 spell [[Animate Dead]] (which the necromancer hero [[Thant]] has built in) can resurrect units in combat, and they '''stay''' resurrected after combat. So given a good balance of [[Thant]]s undead and repairable units compared to the opponent, enough mana for the resurrects and having [[Shackles of War]] for unlimited turns (a smaller version would be using [[Blind]] on all remaining enemy units and killing one [[blind]]ed stack each turn, keeping the enemy locked until  the enemy hero is lost to the opponent and the artifacts if any are transferred) he would not lose any units in combat but also often get additional [[Necromancy]] created skeletons (which would hamper movement on the adventure map a little, as [[Skeleton]]s are slow creatures (and even with [[Town Portal]] and [[Dimension Door]] there's an [[adventure map]] movement penalty to consider)).

*There are number of artifacts that are only useful to Necropolis (artifacts enhancing the created creature number of the unique secondary skill [[Necromancy]] like [[Cloak of the Undead King]], but also [[Pendant of Death]] which counters the mini, undead-only version of [[Armageddon]], damaging all undead on the battlefield, even those recruited in no Necropolis but on the adventure map).

*Both Necropolis hero types begin with a spell book.

* Necropolis produces the least amount of units per week. (Not counting Necromancy).

* [[Walking Dead]] and [[Zombie]]s slow armies down.

* Bone and [[Ghost Dragon]]s are near the bottom of the Level 7's in strength and usefulness.

* Necropolis heroes cannot learn first aid, even though their blacksmith produces first aid tents.

* This town is often considered too strong and thus is ''banned'' in many multiplayer games/tournaments. In {{hota}} all percentages for [[Necromancy]] got halved in an attempt to balance this and also [[Galthran]] got replaced by [[Ranloo]].

If you can upgrade your Estate early, you should do so. The Vampire Lords are one of the best 4th-level creatures in the game. Since they draw life from their enemy, and resurrect themselves, they can be used to single-handedly take out large numbers of low-level creatures. Combine with "counterstrike" to get even better effect.  

== See also ==

* [[List of creatures]]

* [[List of creatures (HotA)]]