Leadership (H5)

For other uses of the term, see leadership.

Leadership is a skill in Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Basic Leadership icon

Advanced Leadership icon

Expert Leadership icon

Effects

The hero gives a morale bonus to their units.

• Basic Leadership gives +1 morale.
• Advanced Leadership gives +2 morale.
• Expert Leadership gives +3 morale.

Skill rates

The hero classes can learn Leadership skill and its abilities at following probabilities:

• 15%: Knight
• 10%: Barbarian
• 8%: Ranger and Runemage
• 2%: Demon Lord, Necromancer, Warlock and Wizard

Abilities

Icon	Name	Description	Class	Requirements
				Original / Hammers of Fate	Tribes of the East
	Diplomacy	Allows hero to effectively negotiate with hostile creatures. Increases chances and reduces costs of creatures that wish to join your army.	All classes	No requirement
	Estates	Hero contributes 250 gold pieces per day to your cause.	All classes	No requirement
	Recruitment	Increases weekly growth of first, second, and third level creatures by +3, +2, and +1, respectively. Hero must be stationed within the friendly town on the last day of the week for effect to take place.	All classes	No requirement
	Artificial glory	War Machines and Golems are now affected by positive morale effects (negative morale does not apply).	Wizard	Estates	Diplomacy
	Aura of Swiftness	Combat movement speed of all units in hero army is increased by +1.	Knight	Divine guidance	N/A
			Barbarian, Demon Lord	N/A	Recruitment
			Warlock
			Wizard		Artificial glory
	Battle commander	Adds +2 to Ranger's attack permanently. War dancers join the Ranger's army to fight for their cause. The number of war dancers depends upon the number of the week.	Ranger	Recruitment
	Divine guidance	The hero receives the special combat ability to encourage their troops on a battlefield, making their turns come faster	Knight	Retaliation strike	Recruitment, retaliation strike
			Barbarian	N/A	Battle elation, stunning blow
			Demon Lord, Warlock		Diplomacy, recruitment
			Ranger		Battle commander
			Runemage		Recruitment, runic attunement
			Wizard		Artificial glory
	Gate master	Gating ability becomes more potent, bringing 20% more reinforcements than normal.	Demon Lord	Recruitment	Diplomacy
	Herald of Death	All neutral creatures which join the Necromancer's army will be automatically transformed into the undead creatures of their respective level.	Necromancer	Recruitment	Eternal servitude
	Empathy	Each time when a morale effect is triggered with any of the creatures in the hero's army, the hero moves 10% forward along the ATB bar. Accordingly, when a negative morale effect is triggered, the hero moves 10% back.	Runemage	Runic attunement, mentoring	Diplomacy
			Barbarian, Ranger	N/A
			Demon Lord, Necromancer, Runemage, Warlock, Wizard		Diplomacy, arcane exaltation
			Knight		Divine guidance
	Runic attunement	Increases creature morale by +2 for one turn after rune casting.	Runemage	Diplomacy	Greater rune
	Battle elation	Every time a morale effect is triggered with a creature in the hero's army, it gains 50 Rage points.	Barbarian	N/A	Recruitment

Bonuses

• Crown of Leadership artifact doubles the effects of estates, diplomacy and recruitment abilities.
• Rolf, a Fortress hero, is a specialist in diplomacy, for neutral creatures are more likely to join his army.

Notes

• If an enemy unit suffers damage in a moat when besieging a Fortress town, a "Shock" effect is applied to it, while divine guidance effect is randomly activated on a random friendly unit.