These determine different factors and factor into weaknesses and the likes. Listed below are the types of units you may run across.
- Foot: Footmen with no mount or heavy plate armor. Most units are this type.
- Magic: Any unit who uses tomes is this type, despite it not being specified on their table.
- Armored: Categorized by characters with heavy armor on them and/or their mount.
- Mounted: A unit who rides on a horse, giant lizard, ostrich, or other grounded creature. This also includes some 4 legged animals and monsters.
- Flying: A unit who can either fly on their own or rides a flying creature such as a giant eagle, Pegasus, or the likes. Units with flying spells cast upon them gain the flying type, as well as races with natural fly speeds.
- Aberrant: Creatures who either lack sentience or are generally abnormal. Creatures which are classified as monsters include Nagas.
- Dragon: Categorized by either the creature themselves, or a person riding them. Dragons of all kinds, Wyverns, and Wyvern Riders’s mounts all fit this criteria.
- Construct: Animated objects without a soul, or sense of self. These are often mechanically or magically controlled. Examples include golems and androids.
- Oozes: Blobs without a soul or true bodily form. Jellies examples of an ooze.
- Undead: Reanimated corpses made with Dark Magic. These are too abnormal and artificial to be considered monsters. Zombies, Skeletons, and Ghosts fit this.
- Demon: Beings of pure hatred and malice, demons inhabit hell and seek to spread its hatred wherever they go. This encompasses demons and demonkin alike.
- Angel: Beings of pure holiness and good, angels inhabit heaven and seek to spread its benevolence wherever they go. This encompasses angels and angelkin alike.
- Elemental: Beings of pure elemental force, this type is given to those beings which inhabit the elemental cities or towns. Fire Elementals, Earth Elementals, Lava Elementals, and Steam Elementals are all examples.
- Fey: Creatures from the main realm with very strange anatomy and attitudes, these creatures otherwise co-exist peacefully in most cases. Centaurs, are examples of fey.
- God: Only deities and deity-equivalent units possess this type. Units with the “God” type are unaffected by anything but Legendary weapons.