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<div class="hf-toc-category">On this page</div>
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<div>[[#overview|Overview]]</div>
<div>[[#frontline|Frontline]]</div>
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Holdfast features a wide variety of classes spread across Nations At War and Frontlines. Each class has unique weapons, abilities, and a role on the battlefield. Choose your class wisely — a well-balanced team wins battles.
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<div class="hf-directory-kicker">Role directory</div>
<div class="hf-directory-title">Classes define how you help the team.</div>
<div class="hf-directory-text">Every class brings a different weapon set, trait package, and responsibility. Use this page to find the right role, then follow the cards to the detailed class pages.</div>
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<div class="hf-directory-fact"><span>New players</span>Start with [[Rank and File]], [[Support]], or [[Crewmen]].</div>
<div class="hf-directory-fact"><span>Leadership</span>Learn [[Command]] and [[Orders]] before taking command roles.</div>
<div class="hf-directory-fact"><span>Specialists</span>Practice [[Cannoneer]], [[Cavalry]], and [[Skirmisher]] roles before relying on them in events.</div>
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The backbone of any army. These classes form the battle line and do the bulk of the fighting.
The backbone of any army. These classes form the battle line and do the bulk of the fighting.


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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Rank and File]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Line Infantry, Grenadiers, and Guards. Core musket-armed soldiers who hold the line and fire in volleys.</div></div>
{{Card|title=Cavalry|link=Cavalry|image=Cavalry-Charge-Closeup.png|description=Hussars, Dragoons, and Cuirassiers — mounted soldiers who charge enemy lines and harass flanks.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Cavalry]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Hussars, Dragoons, and Cuirassiers. Mounted soldiers who charge enemy lines and harass flanks.</div></div>
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Leaders who buff nearby troops and coordinate the battle through the high command order system.
Leaders who buff nearby troops and coordinate the battle through the high command order system.


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{{Card|title=Command Classes|link=Command|image=British-Charge.png|description=Infantry Officers and Sergeants — issue formation orders, rally troops, and provide combat buffs.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Command|Command Classes]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Infantry Officers, Sergeants, and Captains. Issue orders, rally troops, and coordinate the fight.</div></div>
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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Orders|Orders & High Command]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">The full order system: charges, volleys, form line, rally, naval orders, and how buffs work.</div></div>
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Light troops and sharpshooters who operate independently ahead of or on the flanks of the main battle line.
Light troops and sharpshooters who operate independently ahead of or on the flanks of the main battle line.


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{{Card|title=Skirmisher Classes|link=Skirmisher|image=Music-Cunt-Charge.png|description=Light Infantry, Riflemen, and Coast Guard — accurate ranged fighters with lighter loadouts.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Skirmisher|Skirmisher Classes]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Light Infantry, Riflemen, and Coast Guard. Accurate ranged fighters with lighter loadouts.</div></div>
{{Card|title=Shooting Mechanics|link=Shooting|image=First-Person-Battle.png|description=How firearms work aiming, bullet drop, reload speeds, and weapon comparisons.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Shooting|Shooting Mechanics]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">How firearms work: aiming, bullet drop, reload speeds, and weapon comparisons.</div></div>
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Classes that keep the army fighting healing, building, resupplying, and inspiring through music.
Classes that keep the army fighting through healing, building, resupply, and music.


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{{Card|title=Support Classes|link=Support|image=Ice-cream.png|description=Surgeons, Sappers, Flag Bearers, and Musicians — healing, construction, morale buffs, and resupply.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Support|Support Classes]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Surgeons, Sappers, Flag Bearers, and Musicians. Healing, construction, morale buffs, and resupply.</div></div>
{{Card|title=Traits & Abilities|link=Traits and Abilities|image=OfficerFire.png|description=Passive abilities unique to each class medicine, engineering, artillery operation, and more.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Auxiliary]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Support-focused roles that keep lines, ships, and events alive.</div></div>
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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Traits and Abilities|Traits & Abilities]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Passive abilities unique to each class, including medicine, engineering, artillery operation, and more.</div></div>
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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Defences]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">What Sappers and Engineers can build, including stakes, gabions, palisades, barbed wire, and MG emplacements.</div></div>
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Heavy weapon operators who bring devastating firepower to the battlefield.
Heavy weapon operators who bring devastating firepower to the battlefield.


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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Cannoneer]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Artillerymen and heavy weapon operators. Cannons, mortars, rockets, howitzers, ship guns, and MGs.</div></div>
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Sailors and officers who crew the ships of the line.
Sailors and officers who crew the ships of the line.


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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Crewmen]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Captains, Marines, Sailors, Midshipmen, and Carpenters. Every role aboard a warship.</div></div>
{{Card|title=Ships|link=Ships|image=Naval-Incoming-Variation.png|description=The vessels themselves Frigates, Brig-Sloops, Schooners, Gunboats, and Rocketboats.}}
<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Ships]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">The vessels themselves: Frigates, Brig-Sloops, Schooners, Corvettes, Gunboats, and Rocketboats.</div></div>
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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[Naval Combat]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Broadsides, boarding, navigation, repairs, resources, and crew coordination at sea.</div></div>
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The classes of the Great War, fought between the Allied and Central Powers in the Frontlines game type.
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<div class="hf-hub-link-card"><div class="hf-hub-link-title">[[WW1 Classes]]</div><div class="hf-hub-link-desc">Rifleman, Officer, Medic, Engineer, Trench Raider, and Artilleryman for the Allied and Central factions.</div></div>
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Latest revision as of 20:49, 11 July 2026

Overview

Role directory
Classes define how you help the team.
Every class brings a different weapon set, trait package, and responsibility. Use this page to find the right role, then follow the cards to the detailed class pages.
New playersStart with Rank and File, Support, or Crewmen.
LeadershipLearn Command and Orders before taking command roles.
SpecialistsPractice Cannoneer, Cavalry, and Skirmisher roles before relying on them in events.

Frontline

The backbone of any army. These classes form the battle line and do the bulk of the fighting.

Command

Leaders who buff nearby troops and coordinate the battle through the high command order system.

Ranged & Skirmisher

Light troops and sharpshooters who operate independently ahead of or on the flanks of the main battle line.

Support

Classes that keep the army fighting through healing, building, resupply, and music.

Specialist

Heavy weapon operators who bring devastating firepower to the battlefield.

Frontlines (WW1)

The classes of the Great War, fought between the Allied and Central Powers in the Frontlines game type.