Battle Sites

The terrestrial battle sites are reset exactly one month after being looted. Guardians and rewards are randomly chosen each time.

Blood Temple
Blood Temple

The secret place where Witches conceal their loot. These bloody treasures must be guarded well.

» Guardians: 40 to 120 Blood Furies, with 5 to 20 Shadow Witches and up to 10 Shadow Matriarches.

» Reward: 2500-5500 ● 0-1 major artifact ● 0-1 minor artifact

Crypt
Crypt

Undead warriors haunt this ancient crypt. You must defeat them to get their treasures.

» Guardians: Weak to medium undead forces: lots of Skeletons (Archers) and Zombies, occasionnally reinforced by several Ghosts, Vampires and even 5-6 Liches in 7.5% of the cases.

» Reward: 1500-5000 ● 0-1 minor artifact

Dragon Utopia
Dragon Utopia

For centuries these ancient ruins were inhabited by dragons. Drive them out and get their treasures if you are brave enough, ...but be sure the dragons will return one day.

» Guardians: Strong dragons of various kind: generally 4-9 Green / Emerald Dragons and 4-6 Shadow / Black Dragons, possibly all of them. One visit out of 5, you'll even encounter 11 Spectral Dragons.

» Reward: 12000-20000 ● 2-3 spells of level 4-5 ● 1-2 relic artifacts ● 1-4 major artifacts ● 0-3 minor artifacts

Dwarven Treasury
Dwarven Treasury

Dwarves surely have stocked a lot of gold and precious gems inside, not to mention some mighty dwarven taskforce to guard that treasure.

» Guardians: 50 to 150 Shieldguards, with 10 to 30 Skirmishers and sometimes 5 Warlords.

» Reward: 1000-50005-155-15

Elemental Stockpile
Elemental Stockpile

You stand before an Elemental Stockpile, where sturdy sentinels guard the treasures within. Do you wish to fight them to see what lies inside?

» Guardians: Medium to strong Elemental forces: 5, 10, 15 or 20 of each kind of elementals. The reward grows with the challenge.

» Reward: 4-124-124-124-124-124-12 ● 0-1 minor artifact

Gargoyle Stonevault
Gargoyle Stonevault

A strange symmetrical structure made of dark stone, looking like a tall gothic tower guarded by gargoyles sitting upon the stone columns.

» Guardians: 60 Stone Gargoyles to 120 Obsidian Gargoyles and possibly 10 Iron Golems or 20 Steel Golems.

» Reward: 1000-30005-15

Pyramid
Pyramid

Iron and Steel Golems guard this ancient Pyramid. They say that a mighty spell lies hidden within the walls.

» Guardians: 40 Iron Golems and 20 Steel Golems. Note that one in thousand time, you could meet 666 Skeletons for 1-2 spells of level 2-4.

» Reward: 1 spell of level 1-5

Treant Thicket
Treant Thicket

Dangerous-looking thicket of treant-like trees. This is definitely a place travellers should avoid stepping into, though the most imprudent, unfortunately, already have - their skulls hang on the branches protruding from within the thicket, their gold lying deep in the mouth-like cavity, serving as bait for others.

» Guardians: 30 Treants to 40 Ancient Treants, with 60 Hunters or Master Hunters and sometimes 10 Druid Elders.

» Reward: 5000-1000010-30

Vault of the Mages
Vault of the Mages

Defeat the guards to get the treasures inside.

» Guardians: Academy forces of various strength, from a pack of Magi and Gargoyles, to 40 Magi and 5 Rakshasas Raja. Note that the Rakshasas Raja can be replaced by 3 Phoenixes at times.

» Reward: 2500-70008-12 ● 1-2 spells of level 4-5 ● 0-1 minor artifact

This information comes from the Heroes V release version (v3.0).

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