COMBAT

Commanders

A commander leads a squad. Their element decides which of your units their skills apply to, and their leadership pool decides how many units they can take.

Commander	Class	Rarity	Innate	What they do
Voss	Kinetic	Common	Last Stand	The more you hurt him, the worse it gets for you.
Reyes	Kinetic	Common	Marked For Death	She marks them. They die. That's how it works.
Ryn	Kinetic	Common	Riposte	Hit her line and the line hits back.
Spark	Electric	Common	Overload	Mech pilot. Runs hot, hits harder.
Cipher	Electric	Common	Neural Virus	Electronic warfare. She rewrites the battlefield.
Thor	Electric	Common	Thors Fist	Storm god. The fists do the arguing.
Whisper	Psionic	Common	Mind Spike	Signal sensitive. Quiet until the screaming starts.
Vell	Psionic	Common	Resonance Link	Channeler. The Signal bends around her allies.
Omen	Psionic	Common	Premonition	He has read this battle before. It misses.

Innate skills

Every commander has one innate skill, and it scales with their rank, so the same commander is meaningfully different at rank one and rank four. Some innate skills can also be crafted as cards and used by other commanders of the same element; the rest belong to that commander alone. The skills page says which is which.

Leadership

Leadership grows with rank and with Signal Conduits. The grant per conduit shrinks as a commander's leadership climbs, so the first conduits on a commander are worth considerably more than the last ones.

Hostiles

You will meet these on sites, in the Gauntlet and at the Citadel.

Hostile	Class	Innate	What they do
Iron Marshal Vael	Kinetic	Juggernaut Charge	More machine than doctrine. The Covenant's final argument.
Axiom	Electric	Disruption Field	Archivist. Quartermaster. He knows where everything is, including you.
The Hollow One	Psionic	Psychic Storm	Something that used to lead. Now it just consumes.
The Hunter	Electric	Kill Switch	It heard you running hot. It is already on its way.
Knell, Cantor of the Ash	Psionic	Battle Rhythm	The Signal rings it. The Ash answers.

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