Conquest FB FAQ - Updates and Designer's Notes
Conquest: The Last Argument of Kings is a living Wargame, with rules changing to the better according to the design team’s directions and in tune with our Community’s voice.
As such, rules are clarified to better convey their meaning and purpose. These will be found under the FAQs section. You will notice that some of the FAQ questions are removed as time passes. That is either because rules have changed to invalidate the question and/or response to it, or we have added clarifications to rules in the actual rulebook as per your suggestions. While at times we post answers to questions online, this document is always in effect first and above any answers for any Tournaments or Matched play sessions.
Of course, as we flesh out the game and get more and more invaluable feedback from the Community we will be updating the game’s Core and Army rules. These new rules and wordings will be found under the Updates section. The Updates section will only contain the updates that took place during the current update and you may also find the new wordings highlighted in the rules PDFs.
Questions found here will be reviewed and changed accordingly at certain intervals; however, not all questions will be entered as they are not encountered often enough to warrant the “Frequently” part of the document.
Finally, the “Rulings” section of this page provides official rulings for game interactions that are not strictly covered by the rules. These Rulings will be part of this page until they are included in the Core Rules of the game at the earliest possible opportunity.
This section is updated with the newest questions added on the very top of the list. You can also see when this list was last updated here: 31/01/2025
Table of Contents
Frequently Asked Questions
Core Rules
Q: Can Objective Markers be targeted by Incantations?
A: Yes
Q: How does Wound Allocation actually work in First Blood?
A: There is a priority where a wound would be assigned. Here’s the following sequence:
1. Engaged Wounded Model
2. Un-engaged Wounded Model
3. Engaged Model
4. Un-engaged Model
Q: Can an Officer ‘take’ the damage in lieu of the Regiment that the officer belongs to?
A:Yes, assuming that we follow the wound allocation priority above. There is a different priority when a model such as the Ward Preceptor and the Thegn as they are forced to allocate the attacks to the Officer Model first before the rest of the Regiment.
Q: Can an Officer use their stats to defend against an enemy Clash regiment?
A: Yes, assuming that the officer model is engaged with the regiment. If that is the case, then the officer is the one taking the wound and morale test.
Q: How do Lethal Demise work?
A: There are a few conditions that will satisfy the requirement for Lethal Demise.
1) The model suffers Wounds from Clash Action but not from Morale Tests.
2) The one taking the hits is the Regiment that performs the Clash Action. The Enemy Regiment then needs to save against those Hits and also take any Morale Tests as a result of that.
Q: How does Vanguard and any kind of ‘out-of-sequence march’ interact with the new march rule?
A: Out-of-sequence march actions are not penalized by the new march rule. So they can retain their full movement value when they perform a March action.
Q: How does Aura of Death (x) work?
A: Aura of Death is checked on a regiment level. Meaning, if there is at least one Model with the special rule on that Regiment that is Engaging another Enemy Regiment with the Aura of Death they take the value of Aura of Death (x).
Q: What happens if there are multiple values of Aura of Death?
A: You use the biggest one, the effect does not stack on a regiment.
Q: If there are 10 models in the regiment with Aura of Death (4) all engaged with the same enemy regiment do you take 40 hits?
A: No, you only take 4.
Q: Do you take a morale test from Aura of Death?
A: No.
Q: Can you charge and clash an objective marker? Assuming both attack hits and the defense fails, how many wounds do they take?
A: Yes. Two.
Q: What does the ‘no engagement range’ mean for an Objective Marker?
A: It means that your regiment will be in a situation where they are engaging but not engaged. They may use Out-of-Combat Actions, normal Actions, as well as Combat Actions.
Q: So does this mean that a regiment with a barrage ability can ‘shoot’ the objective marker and then proceed to clash it?
A: Yes.
Q: Does that mean that you can shoot into an objective marker even though there is already a unit engaging it?
A: Yes.
Q: If a character dies, do its army-wide abilites cease to function (i.e. Sovereign’s Directive on Lineage Highborne, or Avatars of the Hunt for Hierodeacon)?
A: Yes.
Spires
Q: Can the Pheromancer target their retinue with Recuperation Pheromancy?
A: Yes. They are able to restore wounds to the Protector Force Grown Drone. Interaction between Character Regiment and ‘-mancy’ abilities will be amended so that it affects character regiment.
Q: How does Lethal Demise interact with Mass Produced?
A: At the moment the Casualty tokens generated by the rule Mass Produced will simply sit there. In the future there might be interaction on the Casualty Token other than for it to be healed.
Q: How does the Adaptive Evolution mutation work if you receive several wounds at once?
A: Due to how the rule is written, if you receive multiple wounds – it activates once per each wound that you would receive.
For example: Johnny the Pheromancer receives 2 wounds and decides to upgrade their resolve once and clash once. They now roll with their higher resolve characteristic of 5.
City States
Q: How many wounds are restored by Prostagma?
A: You need a minimum of 2 successes in order to cast the Incantation. So at the minimum you will heal 2 Wounds – more for the additional success.
Dweghom
Q: Does Corrosion affect your own friendly regiment?
A: Yes.
Nords
Q: How does the “Varulv” Rule works? Specifically with consumption of casualty tokens and recovering Feral Werewarg Retinue Models
A: 1. The casualty tokens will be allocated to the Character Regiment due to Alpha Varulv
2. Each Casualty Token will heal 2
Let’s take a look at the following example: A Regiment of Vargyr Lord character and 2 Feral Werewargs retinues. 1 Feral Werewarg is removed as a casualty. Then the regiment clashes and eliminates 3 opponent models, thus obtaining a total of 4 casualty tokens, in its next activation could it remove 3 tokens to heal 6 W and remove the 4th token to bring back the eliminated Feral Werewarg.
Hundred Kingdoms
Q: How does Imperial Officer’s Command To the Colors! work if Broken Regiment cannot be targeted?
A: It will be updated so that this Command can affect Broken Regiment.
Q: How does Interlocked Shield Command works against Linebreaker?
A: They still gain the +1 Defense Bonus from Interlocked Shield.
W'adrhun
Q: How does Thrill of the Kill interact with Retinue?
A: The Casualty Token only adds attack to the character model and not to the retinue. The heal effect also applies to the character model only.
Yoroni
Q: Daimyo’s Undying Flames ability, does that prevent all models from being destroyed, or just the last one?
A: All of them.
