The Canine Commonwealth

The Canine Commonwealth calls together the wolves, foxes, and even dogs of the woodland to fight together for a common cause. Each group is weak on their own, but none can match their prowess when they work together as a team.

As the Canine Commonwealth, your goal is to Conquer clearings by filling all of their building slots with your buildings. Once Conquered, these clearings can be defended with your mighty Garrisons, which allows you to ignore hits in battle by spending cards.

To do Conquer clearings, you'll need to rely on your three Departments.  Your departments are the backbone of your whole operation, allowing you to take powerful actions if you're willing to allocate enough of a Budget to them. Departments gain more budget through keeping their corresponding department buildings on the map. Additionally, most department actions scale in strength and efficiency with the number of their matching buildings that are on the map, letting you overwhelm opponents with a flurry of actions if you heavily invest in one department.

Pack Tactics

Along with your Departments, your warrior supply is also split into 3, with each set of warriors corresponding to a department.  Normally, your warriors can only deal a maximum of 2 rolled hits when attacking in battle. However, when attacking in large numbers with multiple Departments at once you become much more threatening, being able to potentially deal 6 hits in one battle! (Yes, you can deal more than 3 rolled hits in one battle!). Even when not dealing above 3 rolled hits, Pack Tactics makes your battle much more effective on average as long as you're attacking with multiple Departments.

Defense Department

The wolves of your operation are responsible for running the Offense Defense Department. The defense department lets you battle, leveraging your powerful Pack Tactics  to Overwhelm your foes and take clearings by force with your large armies.  It also allows you to Craft. As the most important of the three departments, it lets you strike enemies first, making the most out of your offensive capabilities before they come after your Conquered clearings. Because after all, the best defense is an oppressively crushing offense.

Transportation Department

The dogs in the commonwealth are responsible for running the Transportation Department. The transportation department lets you Move, leveraging your large amount of warriors to get into strategic positions on the board and in clearings for Pack Tactics. As the most important of the three departments, it gives you flexibility when choosing targets to Conquer, and moves your forces in position to rule for building. After all, your large warrior presence doesn't mean anything if you can't get them where they need to be.

Labor Department

Finally, The foxes are responsible for running the Labor Department. The labor department allows you to Build and Recruit efficiently. Though its functions are simple, it is a vitally important part of your operation, being able to place and maintain the infrastructure you need to be successful. As the most important of the three departments, it's responsible for increasing your budget as well as supplying warriors in order to leverage the movement and battle actions of other departments. Without this department, your ability to Conquer clearings would be severely limited.

Coup d'état?!

Of course, each department wants more budget for themselves and may attempt to seize more through a coup d'état when their warriors outnumber another department in their clearing, replacing a rival department building with one of their own. If you're crafty, perhaps this infighting could be used to your advantage...?