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Learn how to play with and against every faction below. You will find general faction strategies as well as unit-by-unit analysis of how to play against each of the 6 "Default Era" factions (including "mirror" matches) and the Dunefolk faction of the "Default + Dunefolk Era".

All strategies make the assumptions of a 1v1 game on a balanced map [any two player map aside from Cynsaun Battlefield] with default map settings on the latest version of Wesnoth (currently 1.18.x development branch). All guides were re-written in March 2021.

Loyalists	Rebels	Northerners
Undead	Knalgans	Drakes
Dunefolk

How to play specialists:

Guide how to play user made factions is also available.

Factions of the Default Era
Description: Loyalists • Rebels • Northerners • Undead • Knalgan Alliance • Drakes • Dunefolk How to Play: Loyalists • Rebels • Northerners • Undead • Knalgan Alliance • Drakes • Dunefolk

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-Learn how to play with and against every faction below. You will find general faction strategies as well as unit-by-unit analysis of how to play against each of the 6 "Default Era" factions (including "mirror" matches).
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+Learn how to play with and against every faction below. You will find general faction strategies as well as unit-by-unit analysis of how to play against each of the 6 "Default Era" factions (including "mirror" matches) and the Dunefolk faction of the "Default + Dunefolk Era".
-All strategies make the assumptions of a 1v1 game on a balanced map [any two player map aside from Cynsaun Battlefield] with default map settings on the latest version of Wesnoth (currently 1.10 for the stable branch).
-==Individual pages for each faction==
+All strategies make the assumptions of a 1v1 game on a balanced map [any two player map aside from Cynsaun Battlefield] with default map settings on the latest version of Wesnoth (currently 1.18.x development branch). All guides were [[Re-writting informations|re-written]] in March 2021.
-[[How to play Drakes]] <br>
-[[How to play Knalgans]] <br>
-[[How to play Loyalists]] <br>
-[[How to play Northerners]] <br>
-[[How to play Rebels]] <br>
-[[How to play Undead]]
-==Legacy threads for each faction (these are many years out of date)==
-[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11190 How to play Drakes]<br>
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-[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11125 How to play Knalgans]<br>
-[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12431 How to play Loyalists]<br>
+<div style="font-size: 20px">
-[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11139 How to play Northerners]<br>
+{|
-[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12430 How to play Rebels]<br>
+|-
-[http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11150 How to play Undead]
+| [[File:Loyalists.png|frameless|link=How to play Loyalists]] [[How to play Loyalists|Loyalists]] || [[File:Rebels.png|frameless|link=How to play Rebels]] [[How to play Rebels|Rebels]] || [[File:Northerners.png|frameless|link=How to play Northerners]] [[How to play Northerners|Northerners]]
+|-
+| [[File:Undead.png|frameless|link=How to play Undead]] [[How to play Undead|Undead]] || [[File:Knalgan.png|frameless|link=How to play Knalgans]] [[How to play Knalgans|Knalgans]] || [[File:Drake.png|frameless|link=How to play Drakes]] [[How to play Drakes|Drakes]]
+|-
+| [[File:Dunefolk.png|frameless|link=How to play Dunefolk]] [[How to play Dunefolk|Dunefolk]] ||  ||
+|}
+</div>
+<hr />
+How to play specialists:
+* [[How_to_play_Horseman|Horseman]]
+* [[How_to_play_Mages|Mages]]
+* [[How_to_play_Skirmishers|Skirmishers]]
+<hr />
+Guide how to play [[Guide_to_UMC_Content#How_to_play_for_UMC_factions|user made factions]] is also available.
-See also: general [[Play#Advanced Players|Advanced Players]] guide, and [[Replays]].
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