Cohort — Arena Auto Battler

Planning: the shop along the top offers five champions, the bench waits empty below the board, and the eight players' names and health run down the right — The shop deals five a round

A fight against another player's cohort: the board fights on its own, the traits it switched on are listed on the left, and the damage each unit dealt on the right — The board fights on its own

A later round: a full bench under the board, and the fight running on its own — Eight seats, one left standing

80 champions
16 lines, 5 tiers each
14 traits
8 ranked tiers

What it is

A cohort is a unit of soldiers

You assemble one, place it on the board, and then you stop touching it. The fight resolves on its own, and what decides it is what you built beforehand.

Each round you draft champions, position them on a hexagonal board, and send them against a rival cohort. You never issue an order mid-fight. The result is already contained in the board you set.

How a round goes

Three moves, then the fight

I
Draft

The shop deals a hand of champions each round. Buy, sell, reroll, or hold your gold and let it earn interest.
II
Position

Front line, back line, who stands beside whom. Three copies of a champion merge into a stronger one, and a three-star evolves into the next of its line's five tiers. Champions who share a trait switch it on together.
III
Let go

Your board fights a rival's with no input from either side. Lose, and you take damage. The last cohort standing wins.

The full rules, with every number

Online and ranked

Eight seats, one ladder

Every match is online and ranked. The queue seats you with the players waiting at your rank, and when too few are waiting, bots and the recorded boards of other players fill the empty seats, so a match starts within about a minute.

The same board, from the same seed, produces the same battle on every device. A loss is always something you can look at and learn from, never a roll you could not see.

Play as a guest, or register to keep your progress across devices. No ads, nothing to buy. Cohort is in open development by one person; the iPhone and Android versions are in testing, and the download page says when each one opens.

The roster