Companies

Attack 2 · Defense 3 · 3 hits

Cheap and expendable. Anywhere, no buildings needed.

Mustered anywhere.

Farmhands with spears and strong opinions about being elsewhere.

Attack 3 · Defense 5 · 4 hits

Steady line infantry. Braces against cavalry charges; +10% defense.

Mustered anywhere.

Brace. +10% strength when defending, and cancels enemy charges.

The wall that walks. Knights write poems about them; short, annoyed poems.

Attack 4 · Defense 2 · 3 hits

Looses a volley before melee begins. Fragile once the lines close.

Mustered anywhere.

Ranged. Strikes in the volley prelude, before the lines meet.

Argue with a longbow from wherever you like, so long as it is more than two hundred paces away.

Attack 5 · Defense 3 · 4 hits

Fast horse. +20% attack in the first clash on open ground. Raised in meadows and hills.

Needs Meadowlands or Highdowns.

Charge. +20% attack in the first clash on open ground (Meadowlands or hills), cancelled if the enemy braces.

They arrive before the news of them does. Sometimes before breakfast.

Attack 7 · Defense 5 · 5 hits

Heavy cavalry. Charges on open ground; armor turns aside 15% of hits. Needs a Musterfield in meadow or hills.

Needs a Musterfield, Meadowlands or Highdowns.

Charge. +20% attack in the first clash on open ground (Meadowlands or hills), cancelled if the enemy braces.

Armored. Takes 15% fewer hits.

A ton of oath, iron, and horse. The oath is the dangerous part.

Attack 5 · Defense 4 · 4 hits

Forest skirmishers. Volley before melee; +25% strength among trees. Needs a Musterfield in forest.

Needs a Musterfield, Deepwood.

Ranged. Strikes in the volley prelude, before the lines meet.

Forestborn. +25% strength when fighting in forest.

You will not see them. That is rather the point of them.

Attack 4 · Defense 7 · 5 hits

Mountain heavy foot. Braces charges; +25% strength in the crags. Needs a Musterfield in mountains.

Needs a Musterfield, Crags.

Brace. +10% strength when defending, and cancels enemy charges.

Mountainborn. +25% strength when fighting in the Crags.

They count a battle lost if they had to take a step backward to win it.

Attack 3 · Defense 3 · 3 hits

Battle-casters. Add magical weight to combat and kindle +1 Emberlight each season. Needs an Ember Spire.

Needs a Ember Spire.

Caster. Weaves battle-light (+4% army strength each, up to +12%) and kindles 1 Emberlight per season.

Graduates of the Spires: singed eyebrows, steady hands, alarming confidence.

Attack 4 · Defense 4 · 5 hits

The unquiet dead of the old wars. Terrifying, tireless, and very poor conversation, though the rites that wake them are not free.

Needs a barrow, and a lord the dead will answer.

Terror. The enemy fights at −8% unless they also field terror, the unyielding, or an immune lord.

Unyielding. Immune to terror, and holds when every other company would break.

The Sundering woke things that had been politely pretending to sleep.

Attack 3 · Defense 1 · 4 hits

Engines and engineers. Negates wall bonuses when attacking; nearly helpless alone. Needs a War Foundry.

Needs a War Foundry.

Siege. Ignores the defenders’ wall bonus when attacking.

Mathematics, timber, and spite, assembled into a machine for ending sieges.

Attack 8 · Defense 4 · 4 hits

Riders on great grey raptors. Fly over rivers; +10% attack; charge on any ground. Raised at mountain War Foundries.

Needs a War Foundry, Crags.

Flying. +10% attack, and rivers are no obstacle.

Charge. +20% attack in the first clash on open ground (Meadowlands or hills), cancelled if the enemy braces.

The birds nested in the broken places after the Sundering. Some fools climbed up with saddles.

Attack 8 · Defense 6 · 5 hits

Flame elite. Armored, immune to terror, never routs. Flame lords only, at a War Foundry.

Needs a War Foundry, The Flame lords only.

Armored. Takes 15% fewer hits.

Unyielding. Immune to terror, and holds when every other company would break.

Each blade is quenched in hearth-ash and sworn to one impossible thing: the throne, relit.

Attack 5 · Defense 9 · 6 hits

Ash elite. Immense defense, braces, immune to terror. Ash lords only, at a War Foundry.

Needs a War Foundry, The Ash lords only.

Brace. +10% strength when defending, and cancels enemy charges.

Unyielding. Immune to terror, and holds when every other company would break.

They swear their watch at the old graves. What they promise the dead, they keep for the living.

Attack 8 · Defense 3 · 4 hits

Umbra elite. +25% attack when striking first; spreads terror (−8% enemy strength). Umbra lords only, at a War Foundry.

Needs a War Foundry, The Umbra lords only.

Ambush. +25% attack in the first clash when attacking.

Terror. The enemy fights at −8% unless they also field terror, the unyielding, or an immune lord.

Paid in silver, silence, and the first pick of the dead men’s boots.

Attack 3 · Defense 3 · 4 hits

Angry subjects under a burned banner. They know the ground and nothing about drill.

Never mustered. The realm produces these on its own.

Ragged. Rabble in stolen boots: fights at −10%.

Grievances, organized. The pitchforks are mostly punctuation.

Attack 5 · Defense 3 · 4 hits

Outlawed soldiery living off the land. Hits hard from ambush, melts away from a real fight.

Never mustered. The realm produces these on its own.

Ambush. +25% attack in the first clash when attacking.

Ragged. Rabble in stolen boots: fights at −10%.

Deserters from six armies, loyal to a seventh: their own stomachs.