Vampire and Vampire Lord

Necropolis creatures
Level 1
Skeleton
Skeleton Warrior
Level 2
Walking Dead
Zombie
Level 3
Wight
Wraith
Level 4
Vampire
Vampire Lord
Level 5
Lich
Power Lich
Level 6
Black Knight
Dread Knight
Level 7
Bone Dragon
Ghost Dragon
Towns

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Vampire
单个费用  360
	攻击力 10 防御力 9 杀伤力 5–8 生命值 30 速度 6 移动 Flying 体型 1 产量 4 AI价值 555
特殊技能：
• Undead • No enemy retaliation
Vampire Lord
单个费用  500
	攻击力 10 防御力 10 杀伤力 5–8 生命值 40 速度 9 移动 Flying 体型 1 产量 4 AI价值 783
特殊技能：
• Undead • No enemy retaliation • Life drain

Vampires and Vampire Lords are the level 4 creatures of Necropolis. They are recruited from the Estate.

"The attacks of vampires and vampire lords cannot be retaliated against. Vampire Lords are able to resurrect members of their own troops by replenishing health equal to the amount of damage they inflict on others." ^{RoE manual}

Life drain special ability

Vampire Lords' life drain special ability occurs after the stack has attacked and before the target stack has a chance to retaliate. It raises killed Vampire Lords from the dead for the same amount of health points as the stack inflicted damage, and the top unit is healed with the remainder. The ability functions in a similar way to Animate Dead spell (or Resurrection). However, no more than the amount of total health points of the target stack can be drained. As the ability name suggests, target attacked creature stack must be considered to be alive. This means that the ability does not work on non-living creatures, since Undead, Elementals and Golems have no life to be drained.

If Vampire Lords attack Efreet Sultans, Fire Shield works after life drain, being able to kill Vampire Lords who have already risen from the dead.

Creatures immune to life drain:

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

• Vokial the Death Knight has vampires as a specialty, which increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Vampires or Vampire Lords for each level attained after 4th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

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The Vampire Lords' good speed and special abilities make them cornerstones of a Necropolis army. It is recommended to upgrade Vampires as soon as possible so as to make use of their life drain special ability. In large numbers, Vampire Lords can be difficult to deal with, unless the opposing army consists largely of undead or elementals, or has way higher stats and/or numbers. A very effective tactic is to cast the spell Counterstrike on Vampire Lords, allowing them to retaliate against every attack, constantly resurrecting themselves in the process. Also, it's recommended to "feed" on weaker stacks, when numbers are low.

See also:

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• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)