Kingdom · Drilled · Precise · Swift

Jade Dynasty

Courts of the Thousand Shrines. Everything you field is faster than its counterpart. Choose the fight, take it, and be gone before the answer arrives.

Strike the opening

How the Dynasty fight

Strong: The best-drilled ranks alive: duellists who cannot be hit, and powder a century before anyone else.

Weak: It wears lacquer and silk, not plate — a fight it cannot dictate is a fight it loses.

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

Trait and powers

Every Jade Dynasty troop fights with the kingdom's trait: +6% speed · +5% damage · +2% range · −2% health. It is added in battle on top of the figures on each troop's own page.

Drill halls muster 4% faster, and their levels cost 5% less
Every soldier is quicker and further-reaching (+6% move, +2% range)
But the courts wear lacquer, not plate — 2% less health

Starting and signature troops

The five troops the Jade Dynasty roster opens with:

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

The Jade Dynasty 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
Ashigaru	Levy	400	38	6	Melee	66	1	Conscript spearmen in lacquered straw — cheap, drilled, and everywhere.
Soldier	Levy	500	53	9	Melee	62	1	Balanced, reliable line infantry.
Chu-ko-nu	Ranged	750	26	7	135	50	1	Repeating crossbow — a hail of small bolts nothing light can stand in.
Fire Lance	Ranged	750	29	17	105	48	1	A bamboo tube of black powder — the first gun, and it still sets men alight.
Yumi Archer	Ranged	750	26	12	195	56	1	The great asymmetric bow — outranges every western string but the longbow.
Flame Archer	Ranged	1,450	29	12	158	52	1	Fire arrows that set foes ablaze with lingering burn.
Horse Archer	Cavalry	750	59	9	150	134	2	Mounted bow — kites and pelts as it wheels away.
Light Cavalry	Cavalry	950	72	12	Melee	142	2	Blazing-fast flanker; charges down stragglers.
Iron Pagoda	Cavalry	2,150	205	21	Melee	92	3	Horse and rider both in lamellar to the hoof — the one heavy thing the courts field.
Rōnin	Shock	1,250	90	26	Melee	118	2	A masterless blade, fast and unbothered — it slips the blow and answers twice.
Shinobi	Shock	1,650	73	37	Melee	136	2	Steps out of nowhere behind your casters and is gone before the line turns.
Naginata Guard	Anti-Armor	1,000	96	20	Melee	58	1	A curved polearm kept for horses — it opens plate and turns the charge.
Iron Monk	Anti-Armor	1,800	139	28	Melee	76	2	No blade, no armour, forty years of practice — the plate simply stops mattering.
Sōhei	Support	2,050	92	15	Melee	62	2	Warrior monks who plant themselves in front and mend what stands behind.
Shrine Maiden	Support	2,200	66	8	130	56	2	Bells and paper streamers — the kami she calls mend and quicken the host.
Pyromancer	Caster	1,700	35	15	150	52	2	Hurls explosive fire — splash damage to clumps.
Onmyōji	Caster	2,850	84	19	190	52	3	Casts paper wards that pin an advance where it stands and burn it there.
Samurai	Elite	3,200	151	22	Melee	84	3	Lamellar, longsword and a lifetime of drill — the finest line-breaker alive.
Kensei	Elite	4,300	136	34	Melee	112	3	A sword-saint. Armor is irrelevant to it and it is barely there to be hit.
Fire Ox	Siege	2,300	230	16	Melee	62	3	Blades on the horns, burning reeds on the tail, and one direction in its head.
Hwacha	Siege	2,600	61	13	245	28	3	A cart of a hundred fire-arrows loosed at once, and then loosed again.
Terracotta Guard	Construct	3,000	332	23	Melee	44	4	Clay soldiers from an emperor’s tomb — they hold the ground they are set on.
War Elephant	Beast	3,750	450	26	Melee	50	5	A tusked mountain that tramples and flings everything aside.
Qilin	Legend	3,750	224	23	Melee	128	5	It appears where a just war is fought, mends what it passes, and tramples what it does not like.
Cloud Serpent	Legend	5,500	198	23	138	118	6	A river of scale in the air, and the storm it drags behind it forks through five men at once.
Oni	Titan	7,500	795	52	Melee	58	9	A horned demon out of the mountain shrines, iron club wreathed in blue fire.

By class

The Dynasty campaign

The Thousand Shrines — Something is coming out of Whisper Hollow, taking a village a night. Close it.

Their rival on the march is the Mythic Beasts.

In the Gauntlet

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