Roster · six doctrines
Choose your race
Six fantasy races war for Ashenmoor in this free browser strategy MMO. Each has a distinct playstyle, signature unit, and heraldry — pick a favorite before you raise your first city.
Kingdoms of steel and scripture
Kingdoms of Men
Humans
“Stand firm. Adapt. Endure.”
Balanced and diplomatic. Solid at everything, locked out of nothing — the race that wins through alliances, adaptation, and disciplined heavy cavalry.
Signature unit
Destrier Knights
“The walls of Aldenmere have stood for a hundred years. They will stand a hundred more.”
Warbands of green fire
The Horde of Ashenmoor
Orcs
“Blood and thunder.”
Aggression as doctrine. Cheap, brutal infantry and relentless raiding pressure — the Horde snowballs on conquest and starves when it sits still.
Signature unit
Orc Brutes
“They built a wall. We built a bigger hammer.”
Forest-born arcana
The Woodland Realms
Elves
“From shadow, silence. From silence, death.”
The best archers and mages in the game. Fragile in a brawl, lethal at range — Elven armies win the battle before the lines ever touch.
Signature unit
Starbow Archers
“You will not see our arrows. You will not hear our steps. You will simply... stop.”
Mountain forges deep
The Mountain Kingdoms
Dwarves
“Stone endures.”
The strongest walls in Ashenmoor and infantry that refuses to die. Slow to march, brutal to dislodge — a Dwarven city is a siege you will regret.
Signature unit
Shieldbreakers
“The mountain does not come to you. You come to the mountain. And the mountain is ready.”
Scrap, cunning, swarm
The Underswarm
Goblins
“MORE!”
Swarm economics: three to four times the unit count of anyone else, plus single-use Boom Carts. Individually pathetic. Collectively a tide.
Signature unit
Goblin Runts
“How many Goblins does it take to siege a fortress? All of them. And then some more.”
Clockwork and voidstone
The Tinker Communes
Gnomes
“A gear for every problem.”
Clockwork armies that eat Iron instead of Food and never mutiny. Mechanical units cost no population — a Gnome war machine is an economy, weaponized.
Signature unit
Arcanists
“Muscles fatigue. Gears do not. Soldiers mutiny. Machines obey. The math is simple.”