The Warhammer Survivors squad system uses keywords to decide who can wield a weapon. When your champion acquires a weapon that its keywords do not allow it to use, a compatible follower joins and attacks on your behalf.
Followers cannot take damage or collect items. You still control the champion who must survive and move to the pickups.
Follow the Keyword Check
- Check the acquired weapon and your selected champion's keywords.
- If the champion can use the weapon, it can be part of that champion's attacks.
- If the keywords do not permit its use, a compatible ally wields the weapon for you.
- Position your champion with the resulting attack coverage in mind, while continuing to collect items yourself.
Mechanics diagram of the keyword rule; this is not a game interface, a full recruitment tree or a squad-size measurement.
Multiple followers can join a squad, but an exact universal follower cap is not established here. Do not infer one from the number visible in a screenshot.
Pair Bastian with Lorai for Enemy Positioning
Bastian Carthalos's Uskavar the Sunderer strikes in particular close-range patterns. Lorai, Child of the Abyss, uses Nebulous Sea Fog to draw enemies inward while damaging them.
The pairing puts enemies into Bastian's damage zones. Watch where the targets land relative to the strikes, rather than assuming that merely having both names on screen guarantees contact. Use the fog weapon guide for its separate evolution requirement.
Pair the Castellan with Kozlowski for Followers
The Castellan gains attack power and skill with each follower. Upgrading Trooper Kozlowski's Lasgun adds Cadian Shocktroopers, and these contribute to the Castellan's damage output.
Develop the Lasgun part of that interaction when it is available. Extra troopers are a feature of the weapon's progression, not evidence that it has already become its evolved form. The Lasgun evolution page covers that separate transformation.
Separate Followers from Playable Characters
A character arriving through a weapon interaction and a character chosen before the run are different situations. Evolving Power Fist can bring Calgar to another champion's side with the Gauntlets of Ultramar; playing as Calgar does not create a second Calgar.
The squad is part of single-player combat. Another controller does not turn a follower into a second human player. Check the multiplayer answer for the current mode, or combat combos for other supported interactions.