Flying units in Heroes 2.

Also useful for blocking and destroying small archers. They can be built on the first day if you have enough money. A Knight with 4 Griffons, 8-10 Gargoyles, and 15 Centaurs can effectively defeat Archers, Rangers, Orcs, Chiefs, Elves, and Halflings. Now, let's take a Knight hero with his native army, meaning something like 13 Archers, 50 Peasants, and 5 Pikemen. This army is completely unsuitable for fighting archers; at best, you could add 20 Halflings to it. However, it might be better to fight with Archers against 15-20 Dwarves.