Gorgon and Mighty Gorgon

Fortress creatures
Level 1
Gnoll
Gnoll Marauder
Level 2
Lizardman
Lizard Warrior
Level 3
Serpent Fly
Dragon Fly
Level 4
Basilisk
Greater Basilisk
Level 5
Gorgon
Mighty Gorgon
Level 6
Wyvern
Wyvern Monarch
Level 7
Hydra
Chaos Hydra
Towns

统计
Gorgon
单个费用  525
	攻击力 10 防御力 14 杀伤力 12–16 生命值 70 速度 5 移动 陆地 体型 2 产量 3 AI价值 890
Mighty Gorgon
单个费用  600
	攻击力 11 防御力 16 杀伤力 12–16 生命值 70 速度 6 移动 陆地 体型 2 产量 3 AI价值 1028
特殊技能：
• Death stare

Gorgons and Mighty Gorgons are the level 5 creatures of Fortress. They are recruited from the Gorgon Lair.

"The sturdy gorgons attack with their acidic breath. The Mighty Gorgon has a death stare with a 10% chance per attack of killing 1 creature in a troop outright per 10 Mighty Gorgons." ^{RoE manual}

Special ability death stare

Mighty Gorgons have special ability death stare, which may occur after the stack has attacked, including retaliations. When the stack attacks, the successful death stare occurs before the enemy has a chance to retaliate. Every gorgon in the stack has 10% chance to cause death stare. Successful stare instantly kills the 'top' unit of a stack, leaving the new 'top' unit with full health. The stare cannot kill more enemies than 1/10th from the number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack rounded up. In other words, the stare of 1–10 Mighty Gorgons may only kill one enemy, while a stack of 11 might kill two.

Unlike most "magic" abilities, this works on Black Dragons, but not on the undead or the unliving (such as golems and elementals).

Calculation

PR% = (1 - 0.90)×N

PR% = Chance to kill at least one enemy creatures
N   = Number of Mighty Gorgons in a stack

Creatures immune to death stare:

Elementals:	Golems:	Undead:
Air and Storm Elementals   Water and Ice Elementals   Fire and Energy Elementals   Earth and Magma Elementals   Psychic and Magic Elementals Gargoyles:   Stone and Obsidian Gargoyles	Stone and Iron Golems  Gold Golems  Diamond Golems  Steel Golems	Skeletons and Skeleton Warriors   Walking Dead and Zombies   Wights and Wraiths   Vampires and Vampire Lords   Liches and Power Liches   Black and Dread Knights   Bone and Ghost Dragons  Mummies

Heroes with a specialty

• Alkin the Beastmaster has gorgons as a specialty, which increases the attack and defense skills of any Gorgons or Mighty Gorgons for each level attained after 5th level, and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

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Mighty Gorgons are among the best level 5 creatures in the game, and certainly one of the highlights of the Fortress town. They can defend your Ranged attackers, or with a prayer or haste or even a cape of velocity can go for blow with creatures far stronger than them because of their good defense stat, high health and incredibly effective death stare ability. Ideal strategy is to get them on the strongest troop stack possible (Archangels, Titans, etc.) and watch them level opponents far stronger in stats. Because of how death stare is capped, it's best to separate Mighty Gorgons in stacks of 11, 21, 31 etc. or at least 12, 22, 32 etc. whenever possible, rather then even multiples of 10. Generally, a stack of 10N+1 Mighty Gorgons has an about 30%-40% chance of killing N+1 enemies with the death stare, while for 10N Mighty Gorgons it's obviously impossible. Mighty Gorgons are possibly the creatures to whom Berserk is more harmful than to any others. It is a pure disaster, since they will kill their allies via death stare, during both their own attack and retaliation.

See also:

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• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)