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Steampunk Hold

Apostates of the Screaming Forge. Your spawners are the slowest in the realm and they do not run at their rating. Overdriven they out-muster almost anybody, and cook themselves doing it — win before the gauges go red.

Run it past the rating

How the Overwound fight

Strong: Four constructs, three engines, and spawners that can be run past their rating.

Weak: One horse in the whole hold — everything else walks, and it walks slowly.

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

Trait and powers

Every Steampunk Hold troop fights with the kingdom's trait: +18% health · +12% damage · −6% speed. It is added in battle on top of the figures on each troop's own page.

Spawners overdrive — 30% faster musters, bought with their own hull
And they are built for it: +24% building HP to spend
Nothing here hurries — 6% slower on every pair of legs it has

Starting and signature troops

The five troops the Steampunk Hold roster opens with:

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

The Steampunk Hold 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
Stoker	Levy	350	53	7	Melee	70	1	He feeds the boilers. When the boilers are fed he is handed a bar.
Rivetman	Levy	450	59	8	Melee	64	1	A hold-hand with a rivet gun and no training worth the name. There are a great many of him.
Cogshot	Ranged	750	44	12	135	66	1	Scrap cut into discs and thrown very fast. Cheap, and it does not care what it hits.
Steam Lance	Ranged	750	44	13	150	60	2	A lance that is mostly hose. It puts a bolt through two men and a wall.
Vent Gunner	Ranged	1,700	60	14	120	58	2	He carries the vent instead of standing near it. The hold approves.
Chainshot Crew	Ranged	1,800	72	28	175	48	3	Two weights and a length of chain, fired flat. It goes through a rank sideways.
Boiler Rider	Cavalry	1,900	153	22	Melee	116	3	A walking boiler with a saddle bolted where the pressure gauge used to be.
Pistonfist	Shock	750	91	26	Melee	110	2	Both arms are the machine. He does not carry it, he is wearing it.
Hammerworks	Shock	1,100	113	33	Melee	102	2	A drop-hammer taken off its mount and given legs.
Pressure Guard	Anti-Armor	750	108	26	Melee	58	2	A pry-bar on a pressure line. It opens plate the way it opens a seized hatch.
Wrenchbreaker	Anti-Armor	1,000	113	33	Melee	62	1	Every hold has one man who fixes things by hitting them correctly.
Bellowsman	Support	1,100	52	—	Melee	80	1	Air is the whole hold. He brings it where it is short.
Gaugekeeper	Support	1,500	61	—	Melee	74	2	She reads the dials and decides who is about to fail. Sometimes it is a man.
Sparkwright	Caster	2,500	51	17	160	62	2	The hold learned lightning by accident and has not stopped apologising.
Governor	Caster	2,850	56	14	150	58	3	It regulates a machine by refusing it steam. It regulates a man the same way.
Plague Doctor	Caster	4,100	129	24	150	74	3	The hold has always run on bad air. He is the man who learned to bottle it.
Foreman	Elite	3,300	120	23	Melee	84	3	Nothing in the hold moves without him and nothing gets past him either.
Steam Ram	Siege	2,350	181	32	Melee	42	3	A ram that no longer needs men to swing it, which is the whole argument of the hold.
Air Ship	Siege	2,450	181	27	135	40	3	Eleven tons of riveted gasbag that arrives whenever it arrives, and opens its floor over your roof.
Pressure Mortar	Siege	2,600	100	29	235	38	3	It does not use powder. It uses the same pressure that runs the hold, held far too long.
Iron Hound	Construct	2,000	138	20	Melee	128	2	It was built to find leaks. It finds other things now and it is still very fast.
Crawler	Construct	2,950	251	22	Melee	38	4	It repairs itself, badly, forever. The hold has stopped asking how.
Cogwalker	Construct	3,050	242	23	Melee	44	4	Four legs, one governor, and no instruction anybody living remembers giving it.
Brass Golem	Construct	3,300	274	25	Melee	40	4	Cast in one piece, in a mould that took eleven years and killed two men.
The Great Engine	Legend	5,950	288	29	120	54	6	The thing the hold built instead of stopping. It has been running for ninety years.
Boiler King	Titan	8,450	509	54	Melee	50	9	What is left of the last Hold-King, welded into the machine he refused to shut down.

By class

The Overwound campaign

The Note on the Forge — The Screaming Forge was mortgaged three centuries ago. Somebody has come to collect.

Their rival on the march is the Damned Covenant.

In the Gauntlet

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