All armies from the Master Set are different varieties of Technical Faction: Mountain Vargath are a Brute Force Technical faction, Shadow Elves are Guerrilla Technical, and Swamp Orcs are Spammer Technical (thanks to their vine walls).
The Cloaks are a Guerrilla Faction: there is a dash of Elitist faction since their summoner is one of their main combatants.
The Vanguards are an Elitist faction: all their units have at least 2 HP and they have a heavy focus on healing.
Guild Dwarves are a Balanced Unit Specialist Faction: they have many average abilities with an emphasis on Wall Destruction.
Jungle Elves are a Ranger faction focusing on movement and melee damage.
Phoenix Elves are a Ranger faction, focusing on ranged attacks.
Tundra Orcs are an offensive Brute Force faction.
A Child Shall Lead Them: The Vanguards are led by young Sera Eldwyn.
In most of the fluff, their targets play right into their hands.
The Chessmaster: Something (or some things) is actively pitting all the factions against each other for some mysterious purpose.
Batman Gambit: Forces are manipulating all the factions into fighting each other, but nearly all of said factions crave power and hate each other regardless.
Also, some Guild Dwarves, such as Dorgan, who actually has an ability called "Xenophobia".
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