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Damned Covenant

Debtors of the Blackened Pact. Field more than you can afford and end it. The longer your army stands, the faster your keep goes — this is the only kingdom that can lose to itself.

Collect before you are collected

How the Damned fight

Strong: The densest melee in the realm — four shock lines and four elites, every one above its price.

Weak: Every soldier standing bills your own keep by the second.

The Damned Covenant field 26 troops across twelve classes — 2 levy, 2 ranged, 2 cavalry, 4 shock, 2 anti-armor, 2 support, 3 caster, 4 elite, 1 siege, 2 beast, 1 legend and 1 titan.

Trait and powers

Every Damned Covenant troop fights with the kingdom's trait: +3% speed · −4% range · −7% damage · −13% health. It is added in battle on top of the figures on each troop's own page.

Every blow mends the slayer (+5% of the damage it deals)
The tithe — each soldier you field costs your keep 0.70 HP every second
And the keep is thin to begin with: 18% less building HP

Starting and signature troops

The five troops the Damned Covenant roster opens with:

And the eight it is known for — its signature troops:

The Damned Covenant roster

All 26 troops, by class and then by what their spawner costs to raise. Range is in the field's own units — a melee blow reaches a few dozen, the longest bows several hundred.

Troop	Class	Raise	Health	Damage	Range	Speed	Pop	What it does
Thrall	Levy	400	56	9	Melee	72	1	Somebody who signed. There is no record of what for.
Penitent	Levy	450	70	9	Melee	66	1	Walks in front on purpose. Whatever it owes, it is paying it here.
Emberling	Ranged	750	37	11	140	74	1	A small thing that throws what it is made of and regrows it slowly.
Screamer	Ranged	2,050	54	19	165	80	2	It is not a weapon. It is the sound of the contract being read aloud.
Hound of the Pact	Cavalry	1,650	125	25	Melee	138	2	It was a hunting pack. The contract took the pack and left the hunger.
Branded Rider	Cavalry	2,200	156	26	Melee	120	3	The last knight of the duchy that signed. He has not been relieved of the post.
Flenser	Shock	750	88	30	Melee	116	2	Four arms, and every one of them ends the same way.
Scourgeling	Shock	750	85	23	Melee	108	2	Its whip does not cut. It writes, and the writing does not stop.
Gnasher	Shock	1,050	103	36	Melee	124	1	Mostly mouth. It closes the distance because that is all it can do.
Wrathborn	Shock	2,000	135	45	Melee	112	2	It arrives angrier than it left, and it left angry.
Yoke-Bearer	Anti-Armor	1,050	120	36	Melee	60	1	It carries the debt of somebody bigger, and it slows whatever it touches.
Shardbreaker	Anti-Armor	1,450	129	35	Melee	66	2	Plate is a promise about the future, and this is what breaks promises.
Ledger-Keeper	Support	1,600	58	—	Melee	72	2	It knows the exact figure. Nobody else on this field does.
Confessor	Support	1,750	63	—	Melee	78	2	It hears what a soldier owes and adjusts the terms. Briefly.
Binding Warlock	Caster	2,550	62	15	155	54	3	It does not kill you. It reminds your feet whose they are.
Brimstone Caller	Caster	2,750	57	20	170	58	3	It asks for fire and the fire arrives, which is not the same as controlling it.
Soul Broker	Caster	3,050	66	17	150	56	3	It trades what your soldiers have left for what its own need. Both parties consent.
Abyssal Priest	Elite	3,700	126	21	Melee	78	3	It leads the rite and takes its share afterwards, like everything else here.
Gate Warden	Elite	3,700	159	21	Melee	72	3	It holds the place where the contract was signed and it will not be moved off it.
Dread Champion	Elite	4,100	154	26	Melee	86	3	The duke who signed. Still armoured, still in command, still not forgiven.
Harrow Knight	Elite	4,450	144	29	Melee	96	4	Armour welded shut two centuries ago, over somebody who is still in there.
Bone Engine	Siege	2,700	151	31	225	36	3	Built out of what the contract has already collected. It is not short of material.
Carrion Wing	Beast	2,500	126	22	Melee	142	3	It follows the army for the same reason crows do, and it is on the payroll.
Maw	Beast	3,250	264	28	Melee	84	4	It is not summoned so much as let in, and the letting in is the expensive part.
The Creditor	Legend	8,050	386	36	Melee	88	7	The other party. It does not lead the army — it is here about the balance.
The Foreclosure	Titan	9,650	543	54	Melee	54	10	What arrives when the debt is called in full. The duchy has seen it once.

By class

The Damned campaign

The Unlisted Asset — Something fell that was never in the ledger. The Covenant cannot bear an unowned thing.

Their rival on the march is the Star-Fallen.

In the Gauntlet

The Gauntlet sets every kingdom against every other in one run: the Damned Covenant have 10 matchups to win as themselves, and 10 in which they are the foe.