You are kidding, this faction board is just so pleasing to look at! And your theme is sooo sweet, I def wanna help all these canines work together as a team!
Three departments that you need to pivot between is a super awesome design that I haven't seen played around with before. Really glad you've made agency and entanglement an integral part of your factions design itself. Rather than giving them a points engine and putting a method of entanglement on top of it.
Like I said, so happy to see a faction that prioritizes different forms of aggression. Letting them deal more than the max of 3 rolled hits is also a creative way to let them do that. It definitely takes a lot of buildup to get there so I do think it's pretty balanced. Imagine being able to deal up to 6 hits from the get-go, yikes.
I love how each blurb for each department seems like it was written by a member OF the department, and each one stresses how THEY are the most important of the departments. You can definitely even see the cracks between their alliances, really a great job of storytelling within the faction itself here. I'd even anticipate a follow up faction to these guys, where in a woodland they've won... They've finally turned on each other.
Ugh I'm just absolutely in love with this, interacts so much with others and gives opponents SO MUCH to interact with in return. Would love to be involved in a playtest on the future. You've really cooked here.