Beginner guide
Your first little battle plan.
Learn Critterfront's recruiting, merging, tower defense, and marching loop. Start with bots and use a simple team-building exercise before your next match.
Read beginner guide ↗THE FIELD NOTES · CRITTERFRONT
A few notes before you march.
Understand the rules. Find a connection. Put your next team to the test.
FROM THE BALANCE LAB · 9 ROSTERS
Real tests. Useful team ideas.
Explore exact lineups from 6 to 60 gold, their strengths and counters, and editable planner links. Historical results are clearly marked: the tests predate the Hermit King nerf.
Synergy reference
A team is more than its creatures.
Understand Critterfront's five marcher threats and five tower roles. Find every 2, 4, and 5-family bonus and use the complete threat-by-role roster matrix.
Read synergy reference ↗Positioning guide
A good spot changes everything.
Plan Critterfront tower coverage and marcher formations. Understand range, paths, blockers, support adjacency, and unit-specific placement conditions.
Read positioning guide ↗A living reference for an evolving alpha.
The beginner, synergy and positioning guides explain the project’s Classic rules as checked on 2026-09-07. Creature stats and ability text come from the same rules snapshot as the complete roster and team planner. The separate roster guides include historical simulation evidence and clearly distinguish those results from current rules and editorial advice.
Start with a bot match, then use a guide to answer one decision you noticed. Save a team idea so you can revisit it after your next battle.