All Army Attack Characters

Pick a character because that character brings a card pool, not because of a portrait. The store page says different characters and maps each have their own pools, and that every run mixes them. Press reports say the demo has three playable characters. One name is printed on a store screenshot: Warcluck, leader of the chick troops.

The other two names are unconfirmed. Shop screenshots show a rabbit holding a carrot and a battle screenshot shows a different portrait in the corner, including a round aquatic face. Those are pictures, not names. Do not promote a fan nickname into a roster.

What a character changes

Devolver's feature sheet calls this Special Ops. Pools change. A combo you learned on Warcluck can be absent on the next commander, and a map can take it away even if you stay on Warcluck. That is the point of the system, and it is why a tier list of commanders would be a guess. The builds page lists the real levers: character, faction, cards, mutations, battlefield.

Warcluck's written identity is numbers. The tooltip says he can airdrop chicks and excel at overwhelming enemies with numbers. His exclusive troop line shows Rifle Chick and a field-wide +1 under the words All Army Attack. If your plan is a wide formation, he is the commander the store has explained. If your plan is artillery or plants, wait until the other two tooltips exist. Plant tags are already on the cards page, so a plant plan does not require a named plant commander.

How to choose on day one of a demo

1. Read all three tooltips before you lock a run. Only one is public today, so the demo itself is the other two.
2. Start on Warcluck if the Prologue lets you, so the public tooltip matches what you see.
3. Write down which cards never appear. Those are pool cuts, and they matter more than a vibe read of the portrait.
4. Run a second commander only after you can explain Warcluck's income. Fight or Flight is that explanation.
5. Then take the commander you understood into Arid Wastes. The maps page is why the same commander feels different there.

Tip: A character is a filter on the shop. If you cannot name two cards that showed up because of that character, you have not learned the character yet.

Hats sit on characters in the store text, and the briefing says to put hats on your troops with useful stats. Merchant Hat is the worked example on the hats page. Cosmetic-only advice from one preview does not survive that screenshot.

The home base is shared spending between runs. A character does not replace the town. You still Set Out from the same beach.

Verdict: Play Warcluck first because he is the only commander with a published sentence. Treat the other two demo slots as unconfirmed names until their tooltips are as readable as his.

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