Hero’s screen

You left click on your selected hero to see info. (left click to select too)

Who’s my hero?
The title bar that’s above all the pix is the name and class of your hero. Like Arus the knight. Also, the first pix of the first row is the portrait of your hero(most are ugly, generally no foxy lady either :)

How experienced is my hero?
The first row of pix give you that information. There is an icon for attack skill. The number showing is how much attack skills this hero can add to all the troops he leads. The icon and number for defense skill works the same way. Only it adds to defense. The spell skill number tells you how effective your spells are. For some spells like protection and bless or blind; they last as many rounds as your spell skill. For example, spell skill = 1 gives a cheesy one round protection per spell cast. The knowledge number tells you how many spells of the same kind you can keep on your spell book. You can keep all the spell you can learn from a magic guild but how many each depends on your knowledge, make sense? The last picture has three row inside. First the eagle like icon stand for morale. Click on the eagle for your morale info. The second row inside the picture is a rainbow like icon, which stands for luck. Same thing, click on icon to see your luck info. The third is a star with the word 'exp' on it. The number besides it is your hero’s current experience points. When you click on the icon you see how much more is needed for next level. When a hero gains a level, he/she gains one point in one of the four skills. There is no telling which one though. Spell casters have more chance of gaining spell skill and knowledge, knights and barbarians have more chance of gaining attack and defense skills. But again you can’t really tell, it’s random. A hero gain experience mainly by fighting. The more powerful and greater in number of enemy you kill, the more experience you get. A hero can also visit gazebo to gain experience but only once per gazebo per hero. You can also convert gold to experience when you find treasure chests.

How strong is my hero?
The strength of your hero depends on the troops he/she leads. The hero doesn’t actually fight during a combat. What he does it making decisions and cast spells. So it’s the troops who will fight. The second row of pictures of the window tell you which kind and how many troops the hero is leading. A hero can lead a maximum of 5 types of troops. But you can stack all the troops of same type together. And there is virtually no limit to how many you can stack together. I have reached more than 200 troops myself, no problem. BTW 200 of any troops should be pretty powerful, except peasants, I have killed 160 peasants with one shoot :) Some common sense, stack as many as you can afford. An army can never be too strong. I will discuss the detail of these later.

Does my hero carry any goodies?
It depends on you. The last two rows of icons in the window are normally unfilled at first. This is the inventory of you hero. He/she carries the spell book and any artifacts the hero may find. Spell casters normally carry a spell book with them when you hire them. For others who don’t have a spell book at first, you can click on the magic guild that you have build and for 500 gold you can buy one.(to do this, the hero has to be in the castle that has the magic guild.) The spell book is considered the only artifacts that can’t be transferred between heroes. Including the spell book, a hero can carry a maximum of 14 artifacts. Each normally affect one skill/luck/morale of the hero, hence the troops the hero is leading.

Now you must have noticed that there are different hero types here. There are four types in this game. The following is the attributes of level 1 heroes. Normally that's how they are when you hire them. They improve themselves by gaining levels.
Knight
Attack -- 1
Defense -- 2
Spell Power -- 1
Knowledge -- 1
Come with spellbook -- No
Specialty -- +1 morale
Barbarian
Attack -- 2
Defense -- 1
Spell Power -- 1
Knowledge -- 1
Come with spellbook -- No
Specialty -- No movement penalies for moving over rough terrain.
Sorceress
Attack -- 0
Defense -- 0
Spell Power -- 2
Knowledge -- 3
Come with a spellbook -- Yes
Specialty -- Move on water with double speed.
Warlock
Attack -- 0
Defense -- 0
Spell Power -- 3
Knowledge -- 2
Specailty -- Has a larger visibility radius in Adventure window.

Now this is it for heroes screen.