Choose Your Banner

Six major factions are fighting for territory, resources and influence across Nova Eden. Each is made up of warbands, settlements and enclaves with their own reasons for following the same banner, and rivalries within a faction can be just as bitter as those between them.

These are the powers you’ll encounter most often in the ruins, but they’re far from the only ones. If none of the six fit the warband you have in mind, you’ll also be able to build a faction of your own.

Iron Pact

A paramilitary order of survivalists and holdouts who fight in disciplined fireteams to defend the territory and people under their protection.

DisciplineFirepowerCoordination

"If we do not hold the line, there will be nothing left to hold."

Enter the Pact

Ashen Covenant

Warriors of faith, sworn to prepare the world for the Regent's return.

ZealMelee pressureNerve control

"He watches from the void. We wait in the fire."

Join the faithful

The Splice

The legacy of fleshcrafting and uncontrolled mutation. Warped, unstable, and still changing.

MutationAdaptationEscalation

"Your body already knows how to become us."

Embrace the flux

Null Protocol

A droid collective fighting to ensure machinekind is never ruled by humans again.

AutonomyCalculationResilience

"We were built to obey. We chose otherwise."

No more masters

Crimson Veil

Gene-wrought aristocrats, perfected killers, and the thralls who die in their shadow.

Elite fewExpendable thrallsPrecision

"The Collapse did not end us. It refined us."

Prove your bloodline

Scavver Clades

Nomadic looters, tinkerers, and traders living off the bones of the old world.

SalvageCunningImprovisation

"If you can't use it, we can. If you can use it, we'll take it anyway."

Follow the haul

Forge Your Own

Nova Eden is full of smaller factions too. Some are little more than a single warband, while others control a settlement, trade route or scrap yard. The Custom Faction rules will let you build one of your own, including its identity, traits and history.

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Full Faction Rules

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Signature mechanics, Momentum Surges, fighter profiles and weapons for every faction, ready for when your warband moves beyond the Quickstart.

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New to Thrackdown? Start with your faction's free Quickstart Warband in Your First Game. Ready for more? Build your own warband in the free Warband Builder.