All Army Attack Units
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All Army Attack fills the screen with animals and plants that fight for you. The store text says you scale an army into hundreds of units. That is how many bodies are on the field, not how many species exist. Press reports give the demo 60 unit types. Use 60 when you talk about the roster you might see in November, and hundreds when you talk about a late battle.
Battle screenshots match the hundreds claim in spirit. A desert shot packs columns of small gunners against a stone tower. A volcanic shot stacks crabs, plants, and blobs until the damage numbers cover the sprites. You are not microing those bodies. You built the stack on the card row, then pressed GO. The loop is on how a run works.
What a unit is
The store text splits troops and artillery, then says you customize cards and units or craft and mutate individual soldiers. A shop line readable on a store screenshot says "End of turn: Mutate 2 Units" on a Plant card. Mutation is a real verb in the shop, not only a slogan. Another line destroys every card in a row and takes the units. Selling is normal enough that the boss curse Dead End has to turn it off for a turn. Those lines are quoted on cards and bosses.
Named bodies, as opposed to unnamed crowds, are scarce. Rifle Chick appears on Warcluck's tooltip as an exclusive troop next to a field-wide +1. Volcano Mush is a shop reward on a Plant card, not a proven front-line species. Everyone else in the marketing shots is a silhouette in a formation. Skip a roster built from the art.
Roles without a fake tier list
The PowerUp hands-on, played from a publisher code, says different animals and plants have different roles and that a front line needs support. That is one preview, and it matches the store's promise of combinations. It does not name a best front liner. A tier list built from that sentence would be fiction. Builds tells you which levers are real. Factions tells you the only tags you can actually read: Neutral and Plant.
Hands-on previews say three identical unit cards merge into a stronger copy with better combat numbers and a status effect for the squad. The store page does not describe that merge. Treat the three-card merge as unconfirmed until you see it in the demo. If it is real, it changes every buy: the third copy is a different purchase from the second.
Tip: Buy the second copy only when you already know the tag. Buy the third copy only after the demo shows you whether copies merge or merely add bodies.
Demo roster versus full game
Sixty types, 25 enhancements, and more than 70 cards are the press figures for the fest slice, collected on the demo page. The full game's roster size is unconfirmed. The store only promises a vast pool and hundreds of units on the field. Arid Wastes is the named map in that slice. Maps explains why a unit you like can vanish when the card pool changes.
Verdict: Judge a unit by its tag, its trigger, and whether it still fits after you swap someone out. Ignore crowd size as a score. A bigger blob that does not match the curse on the table is a worse army.
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FAQ
Are the units only chickens?
No. The key art and the briefing lean on chickens, and Warcluck leads chick troops. The store text says animals and plants. Shop tags include Plant. The town screenshot is full of other creatures. Chickens are the mascot, not the whole roster.
Can plants attack?
The store groups them with the army. Plant-tagged cards mutate units and pay out Volcano Mush. A battle screenshot shows plant-like clusters on the field. A damage table for plants is unconfirmed.
Which unit should a new player force?
Rifle Chick, if you are on Warcluck, because it is the one exclusive troop with a written effect. Otherwise pick from the beginner guide rule: one tag you understand, then income from Fight or Flight.
Sources: Steam store page, Steam community announcement, store screenshots, publisher-attributed press