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Shields of Loyalty is a dark fantasy, turn-based strategy game set on the island world of Mantaria. You command armies from three distinct factions, combining unit types, special abilities and hero auras to make your forces fight more effectively together.

Commanders and armies

Your commander determines which synergies your army can unlock. Choose from three commanders, each with a different approach:

• Aglovan the Noble: A cavalry commander whose aura supports swift, multi-class attacks. Combining cavalry charges with infantry support lets his synergy abilities chain across unit types.
• Warlord Karnoth: An infantry and flight commander who uses brute force and counter-synergies. His army’s responses grow stronger as the enemy pushes.
• Sargon I: A sorcerer-commander whose desert mystic faction focuses on amplifying magic. Protecting his casters with melee units reduces incoming magic damage while his sorcery attacks enemy lines.

You train units into elite warriors and collect artifacts to unlock specialized abilities. Upgrades deepen the options for combining your forces.

Tactical synergies

Unit interactions, abilities and hero auras reward positioning and timing. Cavalry positioned alongside anchoring infantry can gain bonus damage and movement effects; unit and hero abilities can activate according to position, formation and adjacent unit types. Heroes’ auras affect the whole army, amplifying synergies already in play.

Battles take place on a hex grid, where forests, ridges and chokepoints shape movement and determine which synergies are available to either side. Mantaria’s weather can also change a battle: lightning, meteor showers and violent storms strike units of any allegiance without warning. You can use these events to your advantage or adapt when they hit your own formation.

Mantaria’s biomes

The island’s three biomes alter terrain, affect which unit types have the advantage and introduce environmental threats to both sides:

• Darkwoods: Dense forests, swamps and rocky ground constrain movement. Cavalry loses its speed advantage, while infantry can hold the line.
• Eternal Ice: A frozen tundra with lethal traps slows movement and encourages tight formations. Adjacency-based synergies become important, and a misstep can punish an entire flank.
• Lava Desert: Open ground gives cavalry an opportunity, but molten hazards and aggressive new enemy types punish static formations.

Branching campaigns

Campaign decisions open some paths and close others, changing which battles you face, the army you build, and the synergies and abilities you develop. Playthroughs can therefore lead to different army compositions and combinations. Three unique, non-respawning hero units are hidden across Mantaria’s maps; each carries an aura that unlocks synergy combinations unavailable elsewhere.