Game modes
Five ways to play, all chosen in the Create Server menu. Every mode works in Single Player and Multiplayer alike. Single Player is just a one-human lobby with AI filling the other seats.
Regular
The classic Castle Fight loop, and the shipped default.Place spawner buildings, they field armies every wave, and the last castle standing wins. This is the mode ranked and quickplay always use.
- Players
- 1v1 to 3v3 teams
- Economy
- Full
- Buildings
- Your faction's menu
- Win
- Destroy the enemy castles
Ultimate
Everyone plays one shared cross-faction race and is dealt a random build set.A shared cross-faction pool deals you a random 13-building set. No comfort picks, just the strongest line inside what you were dealt.
- Players
- 1v1 to 3v3 teams
- Economy
- Full
- Buildings
- Random 13 from a shared pool
- Win
- Destroy the enemy castles
Draft
Ban, then snake-draft your whole build set from a shared pool before the first wave.Ultimate's variety with agency. Ban a building, snake-pick your 13, deny an opponent's synergy, and race for contested picks before the clocks start.
- Players
- 1v1 to 3v3 teams
- Economy
- Full
- Buildings
- Drafted: ban, then snake
- Win
- Destroy the enemy castles
Poker
Free-for-all army poker. Get dealt a hidden army, bet chips, and let the pit decide.Hold'em where the cards are armies. Ante up, bet between card reveals, and watch your composition fight it out in the pit. Last chip stack wins.
- Players
- 2 to 9, free-for-all
- Economy
- Chips only
- Buildings
- Dealt as army cards
- Win
- Last chip stack standing
Sandbox
A free-for-all playground for testing compositions. No economy, no clocks, no winner.Spawn any army, on any side, anywhere, and watch it fight with the full game AI. The place to answer "do twelve Footmen beat eight Skeletons?"
- Players
- Up to 9 FFA sides
- Economy
- None
- Buildings
- Spawn palette
- Win
- None, it is a sandbox
Good to know
- Every non-Regular mode locks the race picker, since the faction is shared or unused. Poker and Sandbox go further and flatten the lobby into one free-for-all Players list.
- Quickplay and ranked are always Regular. Game modes never affect your rank.