Recruiting Griffins... did I hallucinate?

[Zhuangzi]

Yes it was Castle Netvill that had the griffins in my game. I had forgotten that you can get more from the Griffin king - completely forgotten about that. There's so much to do in this game that you can't remember everything (this is why we need a search function). I loved using the griffins but I ran out of places to get them so I moved on to other units.

I also LOVE royal snakes. Is there somewhere that has an unlimited supply? One of the castles in Marshan Swamp had a lot (maybe 600) but they ran out eventually.

[Antiga]

I've been watching this and some other topics for a couple of days, and I can't believe I actually made an account now, so that I may tell you of something that may come as a huge suprise.

Almost everything is RANDOM. It's no use asking other people where they got griffins. This randomness ruins half the game, though adds in replay value.

Some places will always offer the same, The castle you start out at gives peasants, bowmen and swordsmen. They restock and can even gain more units after certain quests. But most places it's completely random. Those places have picked from a pool of units, items and scrolls. Seems netvill is also random, I was never able to get griffins from there.

Royal snakes I found at the Menagerie in starter area(Though not the 2nd game), and alot in the swamps. One of the 2 castles had about 2000, and the talking treehouse after you do the quest had alot. This still doesn't mean anything, it'd most likely be *possible* that you would never ever be able to hire a single royal snake again - Due to the random factor.

I am wondering if anyone else was able to hire Black Dragon's in Land of Death somewhat close to the Tree of death up the hills/mountains. Their great.

One thing this game should be improved upon is having access to more of the weaker/basic units earlier in the game. Else they just become obsolete.. I always wanted to use Dryads or even furious goblins.. Till I was able to hire them - Then they were useless as I had finally found other units.

[taltamir]

the only non random griffin source is king harl (king of the griffins), after you do a quest for him he will sell you griffins and eggs... I am ALMOST tempted to steal the eggs and murder their gaurdians for the XP and the eggs... but it is just too mean

[lauvhk]

There are 2 Griffin Eggs ready for grabbing without triggering any Griffin guards changing alignment.

There is also one Griffin Egg available in the Valley of Thousand River in Ellinia but that's pretty far off the table.