Capturing Historical Heroes

[BIG NN]

So you want to capture a Historical Hero and you want to know the tips and tricks to successfully capture one? Well fear no more, this guide will give you the all the tricks you need to get that awesome Historical Hero on your side.

The most obvious way to capture a Historical Hero is to follow what the game tells you to do. You need to have a level 5 inn before you do anything else. Go to your inn and click Folk Hearsay to get information on random Historical Heroes. If the one you are searching for is not there, then you can search for the Historical Hero you want for 1000 gold. Information on his/her whereabouts will cost 10 game cents, so make sure that the historical hero is free for the taking before spending game cents. Usually if the the description does not say that he/she is in a Barbarian?s city, it means that another player has probably taken him/her.

One of the most effective way to search for a Historical Hero is to know who you want. A player-compiled list of known Historical Heroes can be obtained from the official forums. After you know who you are searching for, you then search for him in Hero Rankings in the Statistics tab. Usually this will tell you if the Hero is taken or not. If the Hero is taken, move on to the next best Hero. If the Hero is not taken (the name of the hero you want is not in the rankings), go to your level 5 inn and then spend 10 game cents to get the location of the Historical Hero. After you have the location, it is just a matter of attacking the location with you troops. If the location is far from you, you can always teleport nearer.


Usually a Historical Hero will be holed up in an NPC. Do not scout the location before attacking or the Historical Hero will change locations. Be sure to have enough troops to take on the NPC if you want to capture the Historical Hero. Usually it takes 40 to 60 attacks on the NPC before successfully capturing the Historical Hero.

A more challenging way to obtain Historical Heroes is to take them from other players. This is not as hard as it sounds if the server you are playing in is relatively new. A new server comes out nearly every month and it is a child?s play to start on a new server.

If you have the time you can always be in a position to out-maneuver your opponent into getting his Historical Hero. Firstly, concentrate all your resources in researching technologies relevant to combat. This includes Military Tradition, Military Science, Iron Working, Archery and Compass. After that build your troops to a respectable amount. Hire and fire normal heroes successively to get 5 or 6 Heroes with at least 60 base Attack.

Once you have all of the above, look for the Hero you want in the Statistics tab under Hero Rankings. Almost always, you will find the hero you are looking for. Only attack the player in question if his prestige is within 100k to 200k of your own. There is no point in attacking a player who is well above your capabilities.


Usually the player who is constantly hunting Historical Heroes will be short handed with regards to troops. The advantage you have over him is that you will not need to deal with troop respawns that he has to deal with when hunting Historical Heroes.

When you are ready, Colonize the player. This is because the Hero you want might not always be the one defending the town. After colonizing, you can sow discord to drop Hero loyalty and persuade him to your side.

This isn?t as hard as it seems since usually alliance members won?t always reinforce someone who is being attacked. If you can take advantage of the above, you can almost always get a Historical Hero without forking out any money and get some prestige and honor along the way.

List of Historic Heroes

Abbas I
Abel of Denmark
Adam Smith
Adelard of Bath
Aethelstan
Agesilaus II
Akbar
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Al Hassan Addakhil
Aldus Manutius, the Elder
Alexander I of Scotland
Alexander Suvorov
Alexander the Great
Alfgifu of Northampton
Alix of France
alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Amanieu de Sescars
Amerigo Vespucci
Amin al-Din Rashid
Amy Robsart
Andrea Doria
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Palladio
Andreas Vesalius
Angelique Brulon
Angelo Poliziano
Ann Bates
Anna Rheinholdsdotter Leuhusen
Anne Boleyn
Anne of Cleves
Anne-Joseph Theroigne de Mericount
Anno von Sangerhausen
Antipater
Antoine de Bourbon
Antonia Minor
Appianus
Appius Claudius Caudex
Aretes III, King of Nabata
Aristillus
Aristobulus II, King of Judea
Aristotle
Artaxerxes II of Persia
Avicenna
Baeda Maryam
Baldwin I of Edessa
Baldwin I, Count of Hainaut
Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha
Bartolome de Las Casas
Bayezid II
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Franklin
Beowulf
Bishop Hungar
Bogislaw IV, Duke of Pomerania
Bohemond I
Boris Godunov
Brian Boru
Brunhilde
Brutus
Burchard von Schwanden
Caesar
Caligula
Cardinal Richelieu
Casimir Pulaski
Catherine de Medici
Catherine Howard
Catherine II
Catherine of Aragorn
Catherine of Siena
Chand Bibi
Charlemagne
Charles Cornwallis
Charles de lorraine, 4th duke of guise
Charles IX of France
Charles Martel
Charles the Bald
Charles VII of France
Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby
Chevalier de Bayard
Christina Gyllenstierna
Christina of Saxony
Christopher Columbus
Christopher I of Denmark
Christopher Marlowe
Cicero
Claude de lorraine, Duke of Guise
Claude de lorraine, Duke of Guise
Claudius
Constantine XI
Cyrus II
David Beaton
David I
Deborah Simpson
Desiderius Erasmus
Diane de Poitiers
Dicaearchus
Diego de Silva Velazquez
Diogenes
Diogenes Laertios
Don John of Austria
Don Quixote
Donatello
Duncan II
Eadred I
Earl of Shrewsbury
Edith of England
Edmund I
Edmund Spenser
Edward Jenner
Edward VI
El Cid
El Greco(Domenicos Theotocopoulos)
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elizabeth I
Emperor Taizu
Empress Matilda
Epictetus
Erastoshenes
Eric V of Denmark
Eric VI of Denmark
Ethan Allan
Ethelbald
Ethelred II the Unready
Ferdinand II
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand V of Spain (Ferdinand II of Castile)
Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba
Filippo Brunelleschi
Filips van Montmorency, Graaf van Hoorn
Flavius Belisarius
Francis Bacon
Francis de Lorraine, 2nd Duke of Guise
Francis I
Francis I
Francis Marion
Francis of Assisi
Francisco de Ibarra
Frederick Barbarossa
Frederick II, Duke of Swabia
Frederick III
Fulk III
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas
Gaius Duilus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus
Gaius Plinius Secundus
Galileo Galilei
Gao Guiying
Genghis Khan
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey II of Anjou
Geoffrey Plantagenet
George of Antioch
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Washington
Georges de La Tour
Gerard de Ridefort
Gerardus Mercator
Giordano Bruno
Giorgione (Giorgio da Castalfranco)
Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bicci de Medici
Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg
Godfrid Haraldsson
Godwin
Granuaile (Grainne Ni Mhaille or Grace O?Malley)
Guiliano della Rovere, Pope Julius
Guru Amar Das
Guru Arjan Dev
Gustavus I
Gustavus II
Guy Fawkes
Hamilcar Barca
Hammurabi
Hannah Duston
Hannibal
Hans Holbein (the Younger)
Harald Klak Halfdansson
Heinrich von Hohenlohe
Heinrich von Tunna
Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim
Henri I de Bourbon
Henry II de Bourbon
Henry II of England
Henry III
Henry III
Henry IV
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
Henry the Navigator
Henry the Young King
Henry V of England
Henry VI of England
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Hermann von Salza
Hernando de Soto
Herodotus
Hieronymuch Bosch
Hincmar of Rheims
Hippocrates
Horatio Nelson
Howard of Effingham
Huayna Capac
Hugh Latimer
Hugo Grotius
Humayun
Humfrid
Hypatia of Alexandria
Iamblichus
Isaac Israeli be Solomon
Isaac Newton
Isabella d?este
Isabella of Castile
Ivan III the great of russia
Ivan IV of Russia
Jacobus Arminius
Jacques Cartier
James Cook
James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
Jan Hus
Jan van Eyck
Jan Zizka
Jane Austin
Jeanne d?Evreus
Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
Joan of Kent
Johannes Gutenberg
John Cabot
John Calvin
John Foxe
john gutenberg
John Hancock
John Hunyadi
John Keats
John Milton
John Paul Jones
John Sobieski
John Wesley
John Wycliffe
Juan Borgia
Kabir
Kasimir II, Duke of Pomerania
Kassia
Konrad von Feuchtwangen
Konrad von Thuringen
Koxinga
Lamoral Egmont, Count of Garve
Leif Ericson
Leon Battista Alberti
Leonardo da Vinci
Livy
Lord Thomas Howard
Lorenzo de? Medici
Lorenzo Lotto
Lothair I
Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor
Louis the German
Louis the Pious
Louis XIV
Louise of Savoy
Lucas Cranach (the Elder)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Lucrezia Borgia 2
Ludovico Sforza
Luigi Pulci
MacBeth
Mahmud of Ghazna
Malcolm I of Scotland
Manius Curius Dentatus
Marcus Antonius
Marcus Porcius Cato
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Margaret Corbin
Margaret Tudor
Marguerite of Navarre
Marquis de Lafayette
Martin Luther I
Mary I of Scotland (Mary Queen of Scots)
Mary Reed
Mathis Grunewald
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
Mehmed II
Meister Eckhart
Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania
Michael Drayton
Michelango Merisi da Carava
Michel de Ruyter
Mithridates II
Moliere
Montcalm
Montezuma I
Muhammad ibn Saud
Muncimir of Croatia
Murad II
Myles Coverdale
Nadar Shah
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nennius
Nicholas Poussin
Nicholas the Great
Niels Ebbesen

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Ogier the Dane
Olaudah Equiano
Olga Prekrasa of Kiev
Oliver Cromwell
Origen
Origenes Adamantius
Otto I
Ovid
Pachacuti
Paolo Veronese
Paul Revere
Paulina Busa
Pepin the Short
Peter Abelard
Peter the Great
Petronilla of Aquitaine
Philaenis of Samos
Philip V
Philochorus
Photios I of Constantinople
Pierre Terrail LeVieux Seigneur de Bayard
Plato
Plutarchus
Pope Gregory XIII
Pope Paul III (Alessandro Farnese)
Pope Urban II
Poppo von Osterna
Ptolemy Keraunos
Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Punyaslok Rajmata Ahilyadevi
Qianlong Emperor
Queen Aliquippa
Queen Anne
Queen of Nanny of the Maroons
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus
Quintus Servilius Caepio the Young
Rafael (Raffaello Sanzio)
Raja Raja Cholal
Rani Rudrama Devi
Rene Descartes
Richard Hooker
Richard Neville
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Robert Browne
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Robert Guiscard
Robin Hood
Roger Ascham
Roger De Moulins
Rorik of Dorestad
Rubens
Rudolph of France
Rurik
Saint Zachary
Saladin
Salvestro de’ Medici
Samuel Daniel
Samuel de Champlain
Sennacherib
Shulgi
Silvius Brabo
Simeon I
Sir Agravain
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Gawain
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir John Hawkins
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Richard Grenville
Sir Thomas Gresham
Socrates
Sonni Ali
Sophocles
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Francis Xavier
St. Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII
St. John of the Cross
Stephan Gardiner
Sviatopolk II of Pomerania
Sybil Ludington
Tamerlane
Taticius
Theophilos
Thomas Campion
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cromwell
Thucidides
Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin Robusti)
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
Titus Livius
Titus Lucretius Carus
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Valdemar I of Denmark
Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa
Vlad Dracula
Vlad Tepes
vlad the Impaler
Vladimir I
Vladimir the Great
Voltaire
Wang Cong’er
Wartislaw III, Duke of Pomerania
William Bradford
William Cecil
William Herschel
William III
William Laud
William Pitt the Elder
William Shakespeare
William Tell
William the Conqueror
William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
William Wallace
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Yi Jongmu
Zhu Gaozhi
Zhu Qizhen
Zhu Youtang
Zhu Zhanji
Zorayda

The stats of the different heroes are fixed and not random, and the top attack heroes I’ve seen so far is Henry IV with a base attack of 99, Nadar Shah with base attack of 98 and Saladin, Hannibal and Genghis Kahn all with base attack of 97. I will try to get all stats for all of the heroes posted here as soon as I am able to gather the information, any help is appreciated.

[RedNinja]

Nice guide m8

[Behasaboliagon]

looks familiar?
http://gameolosophy.com/games/sports...orical-heroes/
And I doubt you compiled that HH list either, make sure you give credit where its due.

[Aladauz]

not to be rude mate, but L2Google, there is a quite detailed list of all (at least most) HHs in game, with their base attributes etc. think it was one of the oldies, (satan or xawesomexx or somewhat who put it together)

[BIG NN]

i didnt make this i forgot his webistie though, i used 2 i think

[koronet]

the real guide to HH. Start new server. Paypal money to HH blackmarket hunters. Evony turns a blind eye and 'fixes' any other 'issue' rinse and repeat as necessary.

[I'm The Wreck of You]

the real guide to HH. Start new server. Paypal money to HH blackmarket hunters. Evony turns a blind eye and 'fixes' any other 'issue' rinse and repeat as necessary.

What a weak response. People need to learn the method to taking HHs and stop complaining about commercial HH hunters. You can beat them to the punch if you focus and get a quick start.

[KingBrady]

The only hh guide that ever worked for me was be the fastest and don't always aim for the best hh's to many others are trying to get those .......aim for the 80 base attackers not always the 90's u can go back and just take the 90's from them while they are asleep

[I'm The Wreck of You]

ANYONE can get HHs within 3hrs of server start. You need to take those cavs from Facebook and your golden.