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Orc Horde

Reavers of the Emberwastes. Spawn faster than the foe can kill, and never stop coming. Your huts are kindling — win before they burn.

Flood the field

How the Orcs fight

Strong: Cheap swarms, savage shock troops and warbeasts no one else can tame.

Weak: No plate, no precision — armour and massed bows punish it.

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

Trait and powers

Every Orc Horde troop fights with the kingdom's trait: +15% damage · +6% speed. It is added in battle on top of the figures on each troop's own page.

Spawners muster 12% faster
A landed blow mends the slayer (+8% of the damage it deals)
But war-huts are flimsy — 24% less building HP

Starting and signature troops

The five troops the Orc Horde roster opens with:

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

The Orc Horde 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
Conscript	Levy	350	40	6	Melee	58	1	Dirt-cheap braced pike — bleeds the big things.
Grunt	Levy	350	33	7	Melee	66	1	Handed an axe and pointed at the enemy. There are always more where it came from.
Slinger	Ranged	400	21	6	120	58	1	Cheap skirmisher; pelts fliers from afar.
Javelineer	Ranged	700	29	12	112	60	1	Hurls heavy javelins — fells fliers and beasts.
Spike Hurler	Ranged	1,650	54	29	175	52	2	Hurls a sharpened femur hard enough to pin a knight to the ground behind him.
Wolf Rider	Cavalry	650	64	11	Melee	152	2	Neither the wolf nor the orc on it has ever been told to stop.
Boar Rider	Cavalry	1,400	141	18	Melee	128	2	A war-boar that does not stop when it is told to. Neither does the orc on it.
Ravager	Cavalry	1,600	149	19	Melee	122	3	Heavy raider bred to smash spawners & gates apart.
Raider	Shock	650	70	15	Melee	98	1	Fast plunderer that heals on every kill.
Marauder	Shock	700	85	16	Melee	92	2	Reckless charger that hews through clustered ranks.
Berserker	Shock	1,200	94	20	Melee	84	2	Whirls dual axes — cleaves every foe around it.
Maceman	Anti-Armor	650	78	19	Melee	58	1	Crushing mace ignores armor and jolts foes back.
Tusk Breaker	Anti-Armor	1,550	131	28	Melee	56	2	A cleaver ground from a dead beast’s tusk — it opens plate the way it opened the beast.
Blood Shaman	Support	1,800	78	13	140	60	2	Opens its own veins to close everyone else’s. The horde never asks how.
Warhorn Bearer	Support	1,900	60	5	Melee	60	2	A driving blast: +40% attack speed & +22% move to the host.
Hexer	Caster	2,100	44	12	150	50	2	Curses a foe: strips armor and amplifies all harm to it +45%.
Plaguebringer	Caster	2,350	47	10	150	50	2	Throws plague — poison lingers and spreads in a cloud.
Sand Mage	Caster	2,450	45	12	150	52	2	Snaring sands root foes fast and slow whole advances.
Warlord	Elite	2,450	120	16	Melee	80	3	War-leader — +45% allied damage AND saps enemy damage 22%.
Battering Ram	Siege	1,950	216	16	Melee	30	3	Castle-breaker (+350% vs walls); useless against troops.
Catapult	Siege	2,550	54	29	270	28	3	Long-range AoE; +200% vs castles. Fragile up close.
Ogre	Beast	2,200	270	26	Melee	58	3	A brute that clubs whole knots of foes off their feet.
Wyvern	Beast	3,300	210	26	95	116	5	Venom-spitting flier — only bows & towers can bring it down.
Wyrm	Legend	6,050	388	37	130	98	8	Apex flier; fire breath; only ranged units & towers can hit it.
Cyclops	Titan	7,200	705	50	Melee	54	8	A one-eyed brute whose roar saps courage as its club caves in lines.
Fire Giant	Titan	8,150	750	42	Melee	52	9	A molten colossus — its strikes set whole ranks ablaze.

By class

The Orcs campaign

The Emberwastes Rising — The Gilded March has put forts on the ash. Burn them off it.

Their rival on the march is the Human Realm.

In the Gauntlet

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