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Neutral creatures

Level 1

Peasant

Halfling

Level 2

Rogue

Boar

Leprechaun

Level 3

Nomad

Mummy

Level 4

Sharpshooter

Satyr

Steel Golem

Level 5

Troll

Gold Golem

Fangarm

Level 6

Diamond Golem

Enchanter

Level 7

Faerie Dragon

Rust Dragon

Crystal Dragon

Azure Dragon

Towns

Statistics

Peasant

Cost per troop
10

Attack	1
Defense	1
Damage	1
Health	1
Speed	3
Movement	Ground
Size	1
Growth	25
AI Value	15

Peasant is a level 1 neutral creature recruited from the Hovel found only in the Adventure Map.

"To know a peasant is to dread knowing a peasant. It seems the only hero eager to fight a peasant or have a peasant in their army ranks is the Necromancer." ^{AB manual}

They are recruited for free from the Hovel, but from Portal of Summoning or Refugee Camp their cost is 10 .

Peasants have the lowest AI Value in the game at 15.

Tactics and Info

Toughness

The peasant has the lowest health and defense in the game, being a value of 1. They are good at soaking retaliations, but with such a low speed, they can hardly reach the enemy. However, there's an even better alternative...

Offense

With a fixed damage of 1 and an attack stat of 1, peasants aren't affected by either Curse or Bless, unless Bless is cast by Adela, specialist in this spell, increasing their damage output based on the levels of peasant and Adela's. Usually, when they attack, in spite of their fixed damage and due to their low attack, they deal less damage than there are units in the stack.

Efficiency and cost

If recruited on the adventure map, the peasant joins the army for free. However, if recruited from a Refugee Camp or a Portal of Summoning built in a Dungeon town, they cost 10 gold per unit, the lowest price in the game.

However, for a weekly growth of 25 and a total cost of 250 gold of full population per week, they aren't efficient at all, due to their low stats.

Tactics

A good tactic is to not recruit them. An even better one, if you're playing with a Necropolis army and hero, is to bring them to town and transform them into skeletons in the Skeleton Transformer (in Horn of the Abyss, they can also be brought to a Skeleton Transformer found on the adventure map if it's present), with multiplied stats compared to the peasant.

Against peasants, you can usually just kill them with the shooters, because they're that slow. Or even with melee attackers, if you're sure one of some of your troops won't die, which can happen if there are hundreds of peasants in a stack. Such numbers are a common thing for them and a pleasure for the Necropolis heroes.

Skill bonuses

The peasant benefits from few skills, among which Tactics so they can reach the enemy. However, they greatly benefit from Necromancy skill, at least when they are the enemy.

Semantics

In the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 community, the peasant has become the symbol of the weakest unit in the game, and also a good source of skeletons and memes, based on transforming the peasants into skeletons and also on their weakness.

Appearance

Peasants were added in Armageddon's Blade so there are no Peasants or Hovels in Restoration of Erathia.

Trivia

In the former Heroes of Might and Magic games, the peasant was the first tier unit for the Castle equivalent faction, Farm in the first game and Knight in the second. They were both just as weak as the peasant found in Heroes of Might and Magic 3, though, all stats being 1.

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 === Tactics ===
 A good tactic is to not recruit them. An even better one, if you're playing with a [[Necropolis]] army and hero, is to bring them to town and transform them into [[skeletons]] in the [[Skeleton Transformer]] (in {{hota}}, they can also be brought to a [[Skeleton Transformer (HotA)|Skeleton Transformer]] found on the adventure map if it's present), with multiplied stats compared to the peasant.
+Against peasants, you can usually just kill them with the shooters, because they're that slow. Or even with melee attackers, if you're sure one of some of your troops won't die, which can happen if there are hundreds of peasants in a stack. Such numbers are a common thing for them and a pleasure for the [[Necropolis]] heroes.
 ===Skill bonuses ===