THE FIELD NOTES · CRITTERFRONT
Brood on the march. Blaster at home. Get to know both sides of this creature.
Soul Mage belongs to Brood on attack and Blaster on defense. Buying one family gives you both combat forms.
Soul Mage's attacking meteor mirrors its formation hex onto the enemy board. Moving it changes the planned impact, so inspect the rival layout. The defending meteor has travel time: slowing or holding a group is an interaction worth testing.
Plan a team with Soul Mage ↗ON DEFENSE · Blaster
After an initial 1s delay, targets the nearest marcher within range 3; the meteor falls for 2s, then deals 300% attack damage and a 1/1.5/2/3s stun on the main hex plus 75% damage on adjacent hexes. Successful casts recur every 6/5/4/3s; a multi-target impact can trigger Blaster Aftershock.
ON ATTACK · Brood
On spawn, telegraphs a meteor on the board hex mirrored from its formation hex. After 2s it deals 400% attack damage to every tower on the main hex, 100% to towers on adjacent hexes, and stuns main-hex targets for 1/1.5/2/3s.
| Stat | Defending tower | Attacking marcher |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 125 | 140 |
| Attack damage | 16 | 42 |
| Basic attacks / second | 1 | 1 |
| Range (hexes) | 3 | 3 |
| Minimum range (hexes) | 0 | — |
| Splash radius (hexes) | 1 | 1 |
| Armor | 2 | 2 |
| Magic resistance | 12 | 12 |
| Movement speed (hexes / second) | Anchored | 0.75 |
| Nexus damage | — | 2 |
| Body | Ground tower | Ground |
| Normal attack | Yes | Yes |
Catalog attack values can remain nonzero when an ability disables normal attacks. Attack × APS is not a damage forecast. Ability effects, stars, synergies, resistances, and round modifiers change combat outcomes.
2 families: each defeated Brood marcher hatches two temporary Broodlings that breach for 1 Nexus damage. 3 families: three Broodlings. 5 families: three, and every other allied marcher hatches one.
2 families: multi-target tower hits leave a telegraphed 100%-damage Blast Aftershock in a 1-hex radius (1s cooldown). 3 families: 150% damage, no cooldown. 5 families: 300% damage, no cooldown.
These are shared-synergy options, not a tested win-rate ranking. Only distinct deployed families count; bench units and summons do not add members.
Two matching copies at the same star merge into the next star. Stars I, II, III, and IV represent 1, 2, 4, and 8 copies. Health scales by 1×, 1.7×, 2.8×, and 4.5×; attack scales by 1×, 1.6×, 2.5×, and 4×. Nexus damage increases by one at each star after I. Each ability uses its own values listed above.
Generic star scaling does not increase armor, magic resistance, range, or basic attack speed. Learn the recruiting and merging loop or read about tower and marcher positioning.
