Allies the arrow passes through are absolved of one negative effect with a 100% chance;
each further effect on the same ally is half as likely to be lifted as the one before
Ranged attacks inflict 100% of the damage on all units adjacent to the target cell.
Ranged attacks ignore structures. The enemy responds after all damage has been dealt.
While this unit is alive, all allies on the board gain a +25% defense bonus against ranged attacks.
Power scales 5/10/15/20/25 with stack size, then scales by this unit's Luck percentage.
The owner is immune to being shot through and does not propagate AOE range damage
Each landed shot has a 70% chance to take one random active buff off the target
and wear it for the rest of its duration. Auras and equipment cannot be taken
On attack or reponse, deals 80/70/60/50% of the damage
to the connected enemy (Wind). Depending on how far the enemy is from the target.
Earth Elements take 50% more. A Wind Element earths the bolt: it takes nothing
and the chain stops there
Maximum targets: 5. Ranged attacks hit the chosen enemy, then bounce to the nearest eligible enemies.
A 1-cell gap keeps full damage; a 2-cell gap halves it and ends the flight there.
A dodged target also ends it. Each enemy is hit once, and allies are never hit.
Absorbs 90% of the physical damage dealt to allies within range.
The absorbed damage is recalculated against the owner's armor
and dealt to the owner instead. Magical damage is not absorbed.
Ranged attacks deal 100% of the damage to all units adjacent to the target unit's cell.
Ranged attacks ignore structures. The enemy responds after all damage has been dealt.
Upon coming into contact with lava at the center of the map,
the creature receives a 10% boost to all stats, including its abilities.
The creature can move through the lava or remain standing in it
Rebounds every spell aimed at this creature 75% of the time.
The spell still lands on the dragon in full — the rebound is on top of it,
striking the caster with the same damage and the same effects
On attack, a chance to petrify (instantly kill) one of the target's
creatures. Higher-level units are easier to petrify; ranged shots
petrify less the farther away the target is.
On a ranged attack, there is a 40% chance to apply any of the following debuffs to the target:
Curse, Sadness, Quagmire, Weakening Beam, Weakness, Rangebane, or Cowardice. Multiple debuffs can be applied in a single shot
On attack, a 60% chance to frighten the target. A frightened enemy
can neither attack nor retaliate against the gazer for 1 turn,
but is free to strike anyone else
Four pages, one for each element the wyrm was hatched from.
Grants the caster the following spells:
Whirlpool, Lightning Strike, Ring of Fire and Meteor Shower
Allies within 2 cells apply 20% of their attack damage to the target as Poison
Poisoning an already poisoned enemy stacks: +50% poison damage per stack
When cast, hurls a vine at an enemy in line of sight, leaving it across every cell on the way.
A non-flying creature pays 1 extra step to cross a vined cell.
Any enemy that ends its move standing in the vine loses 1.5 steps, as does the creature struck
Magic armor can shrug the snare off the struck creature, but never stops the vine landing
While this unit is alive, all allies on the board gain 25% magic defence.
Power scales 5/10/15/20/25 with stack size, then scales by this unit's Luck percentage.
Calls lightning down on an enemy anywhere on the battlefield — no wall, body or mountain can block it. Deals 150 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack, ignores armor, and is cut by magic resistance.
Opens a churning vortex under an enemy and chains it to the spot.
The creature skips its next turn while trapped in the vortex.
Water magic: a Water Element cannot be chained by it.
Calls a meteor shower down on the battlefield. Deals 100 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack, ignores armor, and is cut by magic resistance.
Bursts into flame around an enemy in line of sight. Every unit on a cell touching the target — friend or foe — burns for the same amount: 125 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack.
Sends a small fireball at an enemy in line of sight. Deals 6 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack, ignores armor, and is cut by magic resistance. Stack power does not change the damage — it only gates the cast.
The ally's attacks set the target alight for 10% of the damage dealt.
The fire is magic damage: armor does not stop it, magic resistance does.
Deals 50% more to water creatures. Fire creatures are immune.
Lays a burning wall across 3 cells in a straight line, in any of the four orientations.
Hold Shift while aiming to rotate it.
Entering a burning cell costs any creature 1 extra step (double the usual cost)
and sears it for 25% of its maximum health, friend or foe alike.
Calls a meteorite down on any 2x2 block of the battlefield, burning every enemy caught under it. Deals 4 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack — less than Fire Strike, because it strikes them all at once.
Throws a 2x2 smoke cloud onto free cells anywhere on the battlefield.
Any ranged attack (either side) whose arrow path crosses a smoked cell deals HALF damage (its range divisor doubles: full -> 1/2, 1/2 -> 1/4).
A creature stepping onto a smoked cell disperses the smoke from that cell.
Hurls a vine over the battlefield at any enemy no creature is screening,
leaving it across every cell on the way that can hold it.
A non-flying creature pays 1 extra step to cross a vined cell.
The struck creature also loses 1.5 steps, unless its magic armor shrugs the snare off.
The vine lands on the cells either way.
Increases the power of non-healing castable buffs allied units apply to allies by 50%. Does not affect healing, resurrection, augments, artifacts, auras, or passive effects.
The complete match loop: draft, placement, combat, morale, luck, maps, and Armageddon.
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Fight loop
The match in one minute
Read a match as a chain of visible decisions. You are not watching a black-box simulation: player actions go through the shared rules engine, then the browser client renders the events on the board.
Captured in gameLive sandbox combat: the board, stacks, turn queue, abilities, and battle log are all the game's own interface.
1
Draft
Build a tight roster by level: two level-1 units, two level-2 units, one level-3 unit, and one level-4 unit. Bans and reveals help manage hidden information.
2
Upgrade and synergize
After the draft, spend your doctrine budget on augments. Each faction bonus is already fixed by the match ID and automatically reaches level 1/2/3 at 2/4/6 units of that faction—there is no separate synergy choice.
3
Place
Put stacks inside your deployment zone. A large creature may use a 2x1 or 2x2 footprint, ranged units need lanes, and aura units need friends inside their real range.
4
Fight
The active unit can move before attacking or casting; it may also wait on Hourglass or end its turn. After a turn-ending action resolves, the engine selects the next unit.
Quick reference
Key numbers and why they matter
16 × 16battlefield cells
The battlefield is a 16×16 grid. Every move, attack range and aura radius is measured in these cells.
8baseline stack cap
The Placement augment raises the baseline cap from 6 to 7 or 8 stacks. Nature's Board Units synergy adds another 2/3/4, so the absolute cap is 12.
2 / 2 / 1 / 1draft by level 1–4
Each match you draft two level-1 units, two level-2, one level-3 and one level-4. Senior creatures are stronger individually, but each stack's amount compensates for creature value.
5–7augment points
Your doctrine grants 5, 6, or 7 points for team augments (armor, melee, magic, ranged, movement, deployment)—less scouting buys a larger budget.
−20 … +20morale range
At lap start, positive morale can grant priority and 1.25× attack for that lap; negative morale can move the unit to the back, skip its turn, and set 0.8× attack. Morale does not grant an extra action.
−10 … +10luck range
Luck is mostly defensive: a lucky stack takes less damage (~1% per point), an unlucky one takes more. It also powers your abilities, and drifts by up to ±3 each lap.
1 – 5stack power
A 1–5 rating of a stack's board value (unit experience × living count vs the biggest stack). It scales only abilities and spells marked as stack-powered.
every 3–4 lapsmap narrowing
The map shrinks every 3 laps (4 on block-center maps): outer cells turn into holes. Units are pushed inward — or die if there's no room. Don't get caught on the edge.
lap 12 · 4Armageddon, waves
At the start of lap 12, the first of 4 escalating Armageddon waves hits every stack. The fourth can wipe both armies simultaneously, producing a draw.
12–60 sper-turn timer
The engine allocates 12–60 seconds per turn from each team's 4-minute budget for that lap. In ranked, the first missed deadline is protected by Hourglass/Luck Shield; later misses are played by AI, and two consecutive misses enable AI control.
×8max range divisor
Shooting past a unit's range distance divides its damage — up to ×8 at long range. Keep shooters in range; the Sniper augment extends the full-damage band but does not remove falloff.
×0.5ranged-in-melee
A ranged unit forced to fight in melee deals half damage (unless an ability covers melee). Keep shooters out of melee contact.
Victory
The goal is simple: keep your army on the board
Each unit on the board is a stack, not a single model. Damage burns through the current body in that stack, then starts killing the next one. When the stack has no living bodies left, it shatters off the board.
You win when the enemy has no living stacks. If one event destroys both armies—an Armageddon wave, for example—the fight is a draw. Stalls trigger map narrowing, and the first Armageddon wave arrives at the start of lap 12.
Watch the turn queue, not only the active unit.
Keep ranged units out of melee contact: adjacent pressure can shut down shooting.
Respect the edge. Narrowing tries to push a stack inward first, but if there is no legal space, the stack dies.
Draft
Draft: pick a plan, not just portraits
Starting stack amounts come from a shared experience budget: a creature with lower experience value arrives in a larger amount. Compare the whole stack, its abilities, and its role—not one body in isolation.
Unit level matters, but it is not the whole game. A low-level unit can unlock the right synergy, carry an aura, bring control, or give your army a spellbook.
The public roster is currently focused on four playable factions: Chaos, Life, Might, and Nature. Across them you get melee fighters, ranged units, spellcasters, flyers, large creatures with 2x1 or 2x2 footprints, and utility pieces with auras.
The live draft has seven player-choice stages plus a map reveal before the Level-3 pick: Doctrine, Bundle, Levels 1, 2 and 3, Tier-2 artifact, and Level 4. Your ban is saved beforehand in the ranked lobby and resolved when the match is created—not during Doctrine. You then spend augment points and place the completed 2/2/1/1 roster.
Before draft: ban · 1. Doctrine
In the ranked lobby, each player may save one unwanted unit. At match creation, one preference guarantees that extra ban, matching preferences guarantee their shared ban, and two different preferences resolve by a deterministic 50/50 choice from the match ID. Both players then lock their scouting doctrine simultaneously.
2. Bundle
Both players simultaneously take one of two bundles. Each contains a level-1 creature, a level-2 creature, and its own Tier-1 artifact; the two offered artifacts are distinct, so the artifact you want may cost you the creature you wanted.
3–4. Level 1–2 picks
Take one creature at each level. The Lower/green seat picks first at Level 1; the Upper/red seat picks first at Level 2. Greyed portraits are banned. If your doctrine hid an opponent pick, attempting the same creature reveals the collision and sends you back to choose again.
Simultaneous for both sides
Map reveal · before stage 5
The map was selected when the draft was created but remained hidden. Immediately after both Level-2 picks finish, the server reveals it to both players at once; it is not rerolled. Everyone makes the Level-3, Tier-2 artifact, and Level-4 choices knowing the map.
5. Level-3 pick
The Lower/green seat picks first and the Upper/red seat picks second. You can now fit this creature to the revealed map; hidden-pick collisions still reveal the occupied choice and send you back.
6. Tier-2 artifact
Both players simultaneously receive three distinct Tier-2 artifacts and choose one for the whole army. This happens before the level-4 pick, so your last creature can be chosen to suit it.
7. Level-4 pick
The Upper/red seat picks first and the Lower/green seat picks second. Fit the last creature to the known synergy variants, map, and artifacts; augment spending comes immediately afterward.
What to remember
The roster quota by level is 2/2/1/1; your selected bundle already supplies one level-1 and one level-2 creature.
The game automatically removes 6 level-1, 6 level-2, 3 level-3, and 5 level-4 creatures. Ranked ban preferences add at most one shared extra ban per match; they do not replace an auto-ban.
The extra ban applies only to a draftable unit and only when at least two non-bundle choices remain at its level. If that unit appears in a generated bundle, the server rerolls the draft offers.
Your doctrine preselects watched slots. Scout marks one level-1 slot, one level-2 slot, and either the level-3 or level-4 slot. Under any doctrine, attempting an opponent's hidden pick reveals that collision.
base attack spread before armor, luck, and modifiers
Initiative
a major input into turn order inside each lap
Steps
how far the unit can move on its turn
Shots
ammo for ranged attacks, when the unit has a ranged attack
Magic resist
reduces magic damage (100 = immune) and the chance a spell debuff lands — it does NOT stop status effects
Status resist
lowers the chance Stun and Paralysis land and reduces physical area damage (Amulet of Resolve); magical area damage still uses magic resist
Mind resist
lowers the chance of mind effects—Blindness, Aggr, Boar Saliva, Terrifying/Petrifying Gaze—and comes from Helm of Focus. Madness and Mechanism instead grant full mind-attack immunity
Attack types
12Ranged35Melee8Melee / magic2Magic
Augments
Team upgrades: 5-7 points, real tradeoffs
Augments are not cosmetics. They change deployment size, durability, ranged plans, melee damage, and tempo before the first unit acts. Your budget is whatever your draft doctrine paid you: 5 points for Spymaster, 6 for Scout, 7 for Battle Trance. Seeing less of the opponent’s draft is what buys the bigger army.
Green-side deployment
All three Placement tiers on the real board
These are the Left/green player's exact legal cells. The Right/red player receives the same geometry mirrored on the right.
GREEN · LEFT01
Freetier 1 · up to 6 stacks3 cells deep · partial
The outer side column and the top/bottom ends stay closed.
GREEN · LEFT02
1 pointtier 2 · up to 7 stacks4 cells deep · full height
The zone reaches both ends of the board, but the side-edge column stays closed.
GREEN · LEFT03
2 pointstier 3 · up to 8 stacks6 cells deep · edge open
The deepest zone opens the full board height and the outermost side column.
Augment effects by tier
Augment
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Armor% armor, flat magic armor
+6%, +13%, or +21% team armor, plus the same number of points added straight onto magic armor. Strong when your army needs to survive first contact.
+6% / +6
+13% / +13
+21% / +21
Mightmelee attack
+8%, +17%, or +27% melee attack. This is for armies that intend to fight up close.
+8%
+17%
+27%
Empowermagic damage
+7%, +15%, or +24% magic damage: offensive spells, Fire Wall, Fireforged Sword, Chain Lightning, Fire Breath and Fire Shield. For armies that win with spells rather than steel.
+7%
+15%
+24%
Sniperattack / shot range
+8/17/27% ranged attack and +20/40/70% shot distance. It extends the full-damage band but does not remove range falloff.
+8% / +20%
+17% / +40%
+27% / +70%
Movementsteps to move
+1 or +2 movement steps. Sometimes one extra cell is worth more than another damage buff.
+1
+2
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Placementcost · depth from your side
On the ranked board, deployment extends inward from your side. The free option gives a partial zone 3 cells deep and up to 6 stacks. Spending 1 point gives a full-height zone 4 cells deep and 7 stacks. Spending 2 points opens 6 cells including the side edge, plus the baseline cap of 8 stacks before Nature bonuses.
free · 3 cells deep, partial
1 point · 4 cells, full height
2 points · 6 cells + side edge
Doctrines
Doctrines: what you see costs you points
Your doctrine is the very first pick of the draft, and it lasts the whole draft. It decides how much of the opponent's roster you watch — and it pays you for looking away: the less you see, the larger your augment budget. There is no fourth option and you cannot change it later.
Doctrines: reveal versus augment points
Doctrine
What you see
Augment points
SpymasterFull information, smallest army budget.
Every one of the opponent's picks, as they happen.
5
ScoutA partial read for a middling budget.
One random level-1 slot, one level-2 slot, and one of the two senior slots (level 3 or 4).
6
Battle TranceDraft blind, field the strongest army.
No slots are watched in advance. Colliding with a hidden opponent pick still reveals that specific slot.
7
Those points are the whole augment budget you spend before placement, so doctrine is an army-size decision as much as an information one. If you select a hidden creature already taken by the opponent, the server reveals the collision and sends you back; a duplicate in an already watched slot is unavailable up front.
Synergies
Faction synergies: 2, 4, and 6 units
Drafting 2/4/6 distinct roster units from one faction gives that faction synergy level 1/2/3; splitting one unit into several stacks does not raise the count. Each faction has a pair of possible bonuses, and the match ID deterministically selects one from every pair. Both sides get the same variant set, visible from the first draft screen.
Life
Power by level: 2 / 4 / 6
Supply: +6% / +12% / +19% bodies in each stack
Morale & luck: +6/+2, +13/+5, +20/+9
Chaos
Power by level: 2 / 4 / 6
Movement: +1 / +2 / +3 cells
Break on attack: 6% / 11% / 17% chance to shut off abilities
Might
Power by level: 2 / 4 / 6
Aura range: +1 / +2 / +3 cells
Stack abilities power: +5% / +8% / +12%
Nature
Power by level: 2 / 4 / 6
Board units: +2 / +3 / +4 fielded stacks
Flying armor: +15% / +24% / +35%
Placement
Placement: many fights are won before the first hit
Choose a roster unit, set its stack amount, and place it in your deployment zone. A drafted unit may be split into several stacks without creating extra bodies; you can then move, rebalance, or remove those stacks before locking placement.
Footprints are unit-specific: ordinary pieces use 1x1, while large creatures can use 2x1 or 2x2. Larger footprints need more legal cells for routing and for escaping a narrowing edge.
Before pressing start, check three things: who is inside your auras, who can be reached on the first turn, and where your ranged units will stand if the enemy dives them.
Captured in gameAn actual 6-versus-6 deployment. The colored zones and every unit footprint match the board you play on.
Fight
Turns and attacks
Turns: move, then complete the action
What you can do on a turn
Move
The path must be legal and fit inside the unit's Steps. After an ordinary move, the unit stays active and may attack, use an available action, or end its turn. Moving toward the enemy army's centroid gives +3 morale, moving away gives −3, and a lateral move changes nothing.
Melee attack
The unit must already be adjacent or have a legal path to an adjacent attack cell within its Steps; the engine then moves it in and strikes. A ranged unit without Handyman deals half damage in melee.
Ranged attack
You need shots, a valid line, and no melee lock. The built-in Sniper ability removes falloff entirely; the team Sniper augment only raises attack and full-damage distance, so its range divisor can still reach x8.
Spellbook
Spellbook units cast buffs, debuffs, healing, mass effects, summons, and position tricks. Magic resist cuts magic damage and spell-debuff chance; status resist lowers Stun/Paralysis chance and physical area damage; mind resist lowers the chance of mind effects.
Hourglass
The unit waits and comes back later in the queue. It costs morale, but it can turn a bad action now into a better action later.
Luck Shield / Skip
Luck Shield replaces this lap's random luck modifier with +3 (capped at +10), costs 2 morale, and ends the turn. Ending without acting or being forced to skip costs 1 morale; ending after moving or another action has no morale penalty.
Combat, without the formula sheet
Damage depends on attack, living bodies in the stack, target armor, luck, range distance, selected attack type, and active abilities. That is why the same unit can hit very differently from two different board states.
A unit may respond once per lap when it can use the required attack type, is not Stunned/Blinded/Frozen or target-locked, and can actually reach the attacker. Some abilities and attack forms explicitly prevent responses.
Abilities give fights their character: Lucky Strike can spike damage, Stun and Blindness break tempo, Petrifying Gaze can finish a target, Fire Shield returns damage, and Range Null Field shuts down shooting around it.
Tempo
Morale, luck, and stack power
Morale is capped at −20…+20. At the start of each lap, the engine rolls a chance equal to its absolute morale. A positive proc puts the unit in the priority queue and gives it 1.25× attack for the lap; a negative proc sends it to the back, sets 0.8× attack, and skips its turn. It does not grant an extra action.
Build morale by moving toward the enemy army's geometric centroid (+3 per move) and destroying enemy stacks (+4 to the attacker). Moving away costs 3, and losing a stack costs 4 morale for your other surviving stacks of that same unit.
Luck is capped at −10…+10 and changes ordinary incoming damage by about 1% per point; negative luck increases it. Luck also changes the power or proc chance of many—but not all—abilities. At lap start, every stack gets a random modifier from −3 to +3; Luck Shield replaces it with +3 for the rest of that lap.
Stack power is recalculated from board value: unit experience times living amount, compared with the largest stack present. It ranges from 1 to 5 and affects only mechanics marked as stack-powered.
Exact morale changes
Exact morale changes
+3
Move closer to the enemy army's centroid
+4
Kill an enemy stack (goes to the attacking stack)
-3
Move farther from the enemy army's centroid
-4
Each surviving stack of yours of a unit whose stack was wiped out
-3
Hourglass (Wait) to act later in the queue
-2
Defend (Luck Shield)
-1
An actual skipped turn, including a timeout passed to the engine as a skip
±20
Hard cap — morale never leaves this range
Ending after moving or another action costs nothing. At lap start, the proc chance is exactly the absolute morale percentage: positive grants priority and 1.25× attack for the lap; negative produces a late skipped turn and 0.8× attack.
Map
The map does not wait forever
The board is a 16x16 grid. Ranked rolls one of three maps the moment the draft is created—each equally likely, one chance in three—and reveals it to both players together immediately after the Level-2 picks, before Level 3. The fight is played on exactly that map; it is never rerolled.
The three ranked maps
Map
Center
Narrows
Chance
Standard
Open field — no central hazard.
every 3 laps
1 in 3
FIRE PIT
A lava pool scars the center of the board.
every 3 laps
1 in 3
Cemetery
Exactly 12 tombstones, deterministically scattered from the match ID across the four central columns; there is no single central block.
every 4 laps
1 in 3
A fourth map, Water, exists in the engine but is disabled in ranked, so you will never be dealt it. Narrowing turns outer cells into holes and pushes units inward — or kills them when there is no room. If neither army closes distance or deals damage, the engine can add extra narrowing pressure.
Two map rules worth knowing before you draft
Lava is not walkable by default
Ordinary units cannot cross or finish on central lava; an innate Made of Fire ability allows it. The Tier-2 Lava Striders artifact grants that access to the whole army. While an eligible unit's footprint touches central lava, it gains Made of Fire: +10% to all stats and abilities.
Shooting through the Cemetery
Tombstones are structures, and an ordinary ranged attack is stopped by the first one in its lane. Double Shot spends up to two of its projectiles clearing stones instead of hitting the target. Cyclops (Large Caliber) and Gargantuan (Area Throw) ignore structures outright — their shots pass straight through and destroy the stones caught in the blast, which is what makes them the answer to a Cemetery lane.
At the start of lap 12, the first of four escalating Armageddon waves lands. The fourth deals every stack its full original-stack HP; if both armies die together, the result is a draw.
Roles
Role cheat sheet
Black Dragon and Angel show what large flying finishers can do, but both need room for a 2x2 body.
Medusa, Arbalester, and Gargantuan teach firing lanes, ammo, and range distance.
Satyr and Ogre Mage are reminders that a spellbook can matter more than raw damage.
Pegasus, Griffin, Peasant, and Valkyrie prove that aura placement wins fights before the first attack lands.
How to play better next match
Start with a faction plan: which 2/4/6 units unlock the synergy you actually want?
Place ranged units so the enemy's first dive does not shut off their shooting.
Do not press Hourglass automatically. Wait only when you know what better turn you are creating.
Track the narrowing map from lap one, not when the edge is already a hole.
Stats, roles, movement, abilities, and spells for the entire combat roster.
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Skill reference
Abilities
Passive effects, auras, and active skills with every carrier clearly identified.
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Absolving Arrow
PassiveStack-powered
Allies the arrow passes through are absolved of one negative effect with a 100% chance;
each further effect on the same ally is half as likely to be lifted as the one before
Ranged attacks inflict 100% of the damage on all units adjacent to the target cell.
Ranged attacks ignore structures. The enemy responds after all damage has been dealt.
While this unit is alive, all allies on the board gain a +25% defense bonus against ranged attacks.
Power scales 5/10/15/20/25 with stack size, then scales by this unit's Luck percentage.
The owner is immune to being shot through and does not propagate AOE range damage
Each landed shot has a 70% chance to take one random active buff off the target
and wear it for the rest of its duration. Auras and equipment cannot be taken
On attack or reponse, deals 80/70/60/50% of the damage
to the connected enemy (Wind). Depending on how far the enemy is from the target.
Earth Elements take 50% more. A Wind Element earths the bolt: it takes nothing
and the chain stops there
Maximum targets: 5. Ranged attacks hit the chosen enemy, then bounce to the nearest eligible enemies.
A 1-cell gap keeps full damage; a 2-cell gap halves it and ends the flight there.
A dodged target also ends it. Each enemy is hit once, and allies are never hit.
Absorbs 90% of the physical damage dealt to allies within range.
The absorbed damage is recalculated against the owner's armor
and dealt to the owner instead. Magical damage is not absorbed.
Ranged attacks deal 100% of the damage to all units adjacent to the target unit's cell.
Ranged attacks ignore structures. The enemy responds after all damage has been dealt.
Upon coming into contact with lava at the center of the map,
the creature receives a 10% boost to all stats, including its abilities.
The creature can move through the lava or remain standing in it
Rebounds every spell aimed at this creature 75% of the time.
The spell still lands on the dragon in full — the rebound is on top of it,
striking the caster with the same damage and the same effects
On attack, a chance to petrify (instantly kill) one of the target's
creatures. Higher-level units are easier to petrify; ranged shots
petrify less the farther away the target is.
On a ranged attack, there is a 40% chance to apply any of the following debuffs to the target:
Curse, Sadness, Quagmire, Weakening Beam, Weakness, Rangebane, or Cowardice. Multiple debuffs can be applied in a single shot
On attack, a 60% chance to frighten the target. A frightened enemy
can neither attack nor retaliate against the gazer for 1 turn,
but is free to strike anyone else
Four pages, one for each element the wyrm was hatched from.
Grants the caster the following spells:
Whirlpool, Lightning Strike, Ring of Fire and Meteor Shower
Allies within 2 cells apply 20% of their attack damage to the target as Poison
Poisoning an already poisoned enemy stacks: +50% poison damage per stack
When cast, hurls a vine at an enemy in line of sight, leaving it across every cell on the way.
A non-flying creature pays 1 extra step to cross a vined cell.
Any enemy that ends its move standing in the vine loses 1.5 steps, as does the creature struck
Magic armor can shrug the snare off the struck creature, but never stops the vine landing
While this unit is alive, all allies on the board gain 25% magic defence.
Power scales 5/10/15/20/25 with stack size, then scales by this unit's Luck percentage.
Calls lightning down on an enemy anywhere on the battlefield — no wall, body or mountain can block it. Deals 150 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack, ignores armor, and is cut by magic resistance.
Opens a churning vortex under an enemy and chains it to the spot.
The creature skips its next turn while trapped in the vortex.
Water magic: a Water Element cannot be chained by it.
Calls a meteor shower down on the battlefield. Deals 100 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack, ignores armor, and is cut by magic resistance.
Bursts into flame around an enemy in line of sight. Every unit on a cell touching the target — friend or foe — burns for the same amount: 125 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack.
Sends a small fireball at an enemy in line of sight. Deals 6 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack, ignores armor, and is cut by magic resistance. Stack power does not change the damage — it only gates the cast.
The ally's attacks set the target alight for 10% of the damage dealt.
The fire is magic damage: armor does not stop it, magic resistance does.
Deals 50% more to water creatures. Fire creatures are immune.
Lays a burning wall across 3 cells in a straight line, in any of the four orientations.
Hold Shift while aiming to rotate it.
Entering a burning cell costs any creature 1 extra step (double the usual cost)
and sears it for 25% of its maximum health, friend or foe alike.
Calls a meteorite down on any 2x2 block of the battlefield, burning every enemy caught under it. Deals 4 damage for every creature alive in the caster's stack — less than Fire Strike, because it strikes them all at once.
Throws a 2x2 smoke cloud onto free cells anywhere on the battlefield.
Any ranged attack (either side) whose arrow path crosses a smoked cell deals HALF damage (its range divisor doubles: full -> 1/2, 1/2 -> 1/4).
A creature stepping onto a smoked cell disperses the smoke from that cell.
Hurls a vine over the battlefield at any enemy no creature is screening,
leaving it across every cell on the way that can hold it.
A non-flying creature pays 1 extra step to cross a vined cell.
The struck creature also loses 1.5 steps, unless its magic armor shrugs the snare off.
The vine lands on the cells either way.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 artifacts, cursed options, and exact army-wide effects.
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Veteran Helm
Tier 1
Boosts the entire army's defense by an additional 4%.
Amulet of Resolve
Tier 1
Increases the army's status resistance by 25%.
Keen Blade
Tier 1
Increases the army's base attack (both ranged and melee) by 0.7.
Iron Plate
Tier 1
Increases the army's base armor by 1.
Swift Boots
Tier 1
Increases melee units' movement by 25% of their base steps.
Winged Boots
Tier 1
Grants +1 base movement distance and +1 armor to all flying units.
Dual Strike Charm
Tier 1
A unit's second attack deals 50% extra damage.
Wounding Charm
Tier 1
Grants the whole army Deep Wounds Level 1: each attack or response stacks +6% damage amplification on the target.
Cursed Ward
Tier 1Cursed
Cursed: +3 luck but -6 morale for the whole army.
Hunter's Longbow
Tier 1
Ranged units gain +1 attack for each ranged unit in the army.
Helm of Focus
Tier 1
Increases the army's mind resistance by 35%.
Mage's Ring
Tier 1
Increases all magic damage the army deals by 10%.
Warlord's Edge
Tier 2
Grants the whole army an additional 12% attack.
Titan Plate
Tier 2
Grants the whole army an additional 12% defense (melee and ranged).
Clover of Fortune
Tier 2
Increases the army's luck by 10.
Crown of Command
Tier 2
Grants +1 movement, +8 morale, and +1 armor to the whole army.
Giant's Maul
Tier 2
Increases non-magical (physical) AOE damage by 40% at impact, then reduced by the target's status resistance.
Pendant of Vitality
Tier 2Cursed
Cursed: +25% HP but -12.5% attack for the whole army.
Farsight Quiver
Tier 2
Extends all allied archers' basic shot range by an additional 50%.
Berserker's Bond
Tier 2Cursed
Cursed: +3 attack but -2 defense for the whole army.
Tome of Amplification
Tier 2
Increases the power of non-healing castable buffs allied units apply to allies by 50%. Does not affect healing, resurrection, augments, artifacts, auras, or passive effects.
Rime Charm
Tier 2
60% chance for any attack to slow the target for 3 laps.
Lava Striders
Tier 2
All army units may move over and stand in lava; while on central lava they gain Made of Fire (+10% to all stats and abilities).
MedusaRanged · Walk
ArbalesterRanged · Walk
HydraMelee · Walk
ThunderbirdMelee · Fly
SatyrMagic · Walk
GargantuanRanged · Walk
Orc
Scavenger
Troglodyte
Wandering Mage
Beholder
Manticore
Troll
Efreet
Goblin Knight
Nightmare
Abomination
Black Dragon
Blacksmith
Peasant
Squire
Battle Mage
Healer
Pikeman
Valkyrie
Crusader
Griffin
Monk
Angel
Champion
Tsar Cannon
Berserker
Centaur
Mermaid
Wolf Rider
Harpy
Hyena
Nomad
Wyvern
Cyclops
Ogre Mage
Zena
Behemoth
Frenzied Boar
Dryad
Fairy
Leprechaun
Wolf
Elf
Trent
White Tiger
Arachna Spider
Mantis
Pegasus
Unicorn
Arachna Queen
Magic Dragon
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