Kalran: Tales of the four nations/The Southern Hordes

The Southern Hordes are one of the twenty-four factions in Kalran: Tales of the four nations. Specializing in siege warfare.

Tactics
The Southern Horde is a master of siege warfare. Their portals allowing them to instantly transport their soldiers from the base to the battlefield. Using waves of slaves and homunculus to breach the defense before the chosen, Blessed soldiers of Nihalos, charge through and break their foes

Technologies
Fleshcrafting

Commander

 * Classic: Nihalos
 * Airforce: Mordriel
 * Defence: Adolphus
 * Infantry: Bryan
 * Armor: Balgoun
 * Eve: Southern horde announcer
 * Filia: Southern horde commando (hero unit)

Mechanics

 * Essence magic: The Hordes chosen have powerful abilities and protocols that can easily turn the tide of battle, but unlike other spells they require essence, the magic and lifeblood of every being in Kalran, and in order to refuel their essence they need to sacrifice a creature, meaning that for the Horde to fight at full strength they must have nearby slaves to kill or fresh corpses to power up, or failing that using the homunculus or even weaker chosen
 * Send in the next wave: Unlike the other factions their main production buildings, sans the chosen buildings, can only produce one group of units, with the commander choosing what it produces, but it does so automatically, so long as the commander has a constant flow of supplies to pay for them, and in tandem with other structures. Meaning that making multiple structures means they can produce more units per interval, at the cost of costing more resources
 * Tier: Unlike the other factions their production building can't be upgrade to tier 2 or 3. Instead their production buildings are split into tier 1, 2, and 3, called as lesser, advance, and greater, with each building producing only units in that tier. The exception are chosen buildings, which automatically upgrades per tier rank up

Trivia

 * The factions gameplay is based off Alarak, the chosen units, and Stukov, with the waves of demons and homunculus, from Starcraft coop and tower offense games, like anomaly warzone earth. Though their base, how they build their units, and their tier dedicated production buildings is based off supreme commander
 * Their faction is based off the warriors of chaos from warhammer fantasy, the iron warriors from warhammer 40k, and the world wound from pathfinder