Castellan and Lorai squad builds

Choose Castellan + Lasgun when you want his follower-based Skill bonus, Kozlowski when you want follower-based XP gain, or Lorai + Carthalos when you want pulled enemies inside a close-range hammer attack. These setups solve different tasks; their passives do not establish a damage ranking.

Selected champion	Setup and condition
Black Templars Castellan	Add Lasgun troops for his 10% Skill per follower. Skill increases projectile speed. Lasgun must already be unlocked for another character to receive it as an offer.
Trooper Bartosz Kozlowski	Starts with Lasgun and gains 5% Veterancy per follower. Add White Dwarf for XP gain and Magnet for pickup reach when those passives are unlocked.
Lorai or Carthalos	Combine Nebulous Sea-Fog with Uskavar. Starting as an unlocked Carthalos gives you the hammer immediately; starting as Lorai requires assembling the hammer route.

Assemble Castellan and Lasgun

Collect Abaddon Black on Imperial Bastion for Castellan’s unlock. Rescue Kozlowski on that stage, then play as him and raise Lasgun to level 6 to unlock it for other champions.

With Castellan selected, take Lasgun when it appears and level it to add its Cadian troops. Castellan starts with Boltgun, so this setup needs an actual Lasgun offer; a Lightning Bolt passive alone does not create the soldiers.

Reserve Gauntlet if you intend to turn Lasgun 8 into Meltagun. That evolution changes the firing pattern to a short beam with bonuses against bosses and close enemies. Inspect the new attack origin and reach before treating it as the same ranged formation.

The pre-release Squad System feature mentions attack power as well as Skill. The released Castellan trait specifies Skill. Do not read the 10% per follower as an additional 10% Strength bonus. Castellan and Kozlowski compares the two character traits.

Use Kozlowski for an XP-focused run

Select Kozlowski himself to receive his Veterancy trait. Adding Kozlowski to Castellan’s squad does not change which champion’s personal trait is active.

Kozlowski starts with Lasgun. White Dwarf raises XP gain, while Magnet increases the distance at which the main champion can collect drops. Reserve Gauntlet separately if you want Meltagun; neither XP passive supplies that recipe requirement. XP collection and leveling gives the unlocks and collection route.

Assemble Lorai and Carthalos

Lorai starts with Nebulous Sea-Fog, which pulls enemies into its damaging area. Carthalos’s Uskavar the Sunderer attacks nearby targets in specific patterns. The developer names this pair because the pull can bring targets inside those hammer zones.

If Carthalos is already unlocked, select him to start with Uskavar. To make Nebulous Sea-Fog available to him, first survive five minutes as Lorai in an earlier run, then take the fog when it appears in Carthalos’s offers. This choice gives you Carthalos’s personal trait rather than Lorai’s Chance trait.

If you start as Lorai, assemble Stormcharged Warhammer 8 + Tactical Rock 9 → Uskavar. Stormcharged Warhammer’s weapon-pool unlock is surviving ten minutes as Rostus Oxenhammer. Tactical Rock’s hidden-item route uses the Arcanoscope on Gnarlwood and Bloodwind Spoil; see map relics.

The setup is incomplete while you only have an unevolved Stormcharged Warhammer. Lorai and Carthalos separates the fog’s own Bugman’s Tankard evolution from the hammer’s Tactical Rock and later Null Pendant requirements.

Position the weapon’s bearer

An incompatible weapon brings a follower who can carry it. That follower’s close aura surrounds the follower, and its directional attack fires from that position. Lorai’s pull and the hammer attack must cover the same enemies; equipping both does not guarantee their areas overlap throughout movement.

Followers cannot take damage or collect items. Keep the selected champion outside contact damage while moving that champion through the skull drops. The ownership guide shows the Tor Garadon versus Amalia Shield of Faith example.

Several Lasgun soldiers are also not a reliable shortcut to the five-follower objective. Build effects and the Figure Case objective need separate checks.