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One thing you missed about Stirlands Revenge: They have flipped AP values. Regular Free Company get 2 AP and 12 non-AP damage per shot. Stirlands Revenge gets 14 AP and 2 Non-AP, which combined with their higher model count and faster reload means they'll actually outdamage Handgunners quite significantly.

Worth mentioning about fire attacks, in WH3, it also reduces all healing by 50% so it will be a lot better now.

Dragonback slayers also reduce the speed of the target they catch in melee by 35%, means a lot for the dwarves!

Da Swamp Fings actually had Poison Attacks on their melee that you hadn’t mentioned. Though I doubt that would make much difference if you don’t hold much value for poison.

Feels like you overlooked that the ROR free company militia has armour piercing whilst the normal free company does not. That is actually a rather massive difference that you didn't mention

Ekrund's miners have a 200% ammo increase compared to regular miners with blasting charges. For a unit that's only real damage dealing potential is in its blasting charges, it's a HUGE boost. It's like bringing 3 units worth of damage before it does its duty of holding the line.

The stirlands revenge also have armour piercing missles

The absolute madlad actually did it...

U dont need to activate the the grumbling guard ability btw, its a passive ability that occur every ~25s

Legend, look at the attack modifiers. Stirlands Revenge has Armour Piercing Missles. Swamp things have Poison Attacks.

You missed that the Black Lions can hide. That alone in my books makes it hit top tier. A hiding, relatively mobile siege attacker that can be recruited when needed. The fact it's a hellblaster is just a minor bonus after that.

While I know all RoR get the same instant recruitment, I do think its worth mentioning when the regular version is particularly hard to recruit. Units like the Claw of Nagash or The Big Un are getting a much bigger benifit from instant recruitment than The TIthe or Deathjacks.

i want an avalanche mortars rank , it' s just for them

I think using twwstats could help for this kinda video, because all the hidden stats like AOE attacks are listed there and the unit information is, in general, a bit nicer for comparison imo.

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25:38 "I'm just kidding" Legend knows he has way too many entries in the great book of grudges already, he can't get any more.

A fair amount of the value in RoR is that you can recruit at max XP, very useful to pad out a fresh army or early campaign.

The format is defo good. Especially to decide wether to keep a regiment active in your armies or for emergency recruitments. For these examples there's maybe a handful you'd want to keep around at all times. Really interested to see if there's a race which has more than one unit at the very top.

Legend this video seems like a really difficult one to make, there is so much nuance that can be had in one-off units. Instead of just assessing what perks upgrade a unit most, there could be more interesting discussion on their added strategic value compared to the additional tactical strengths they have. The context of ease of recruitment (RoR with high recruit time or inconvenient recruitment buildings is worth more than a commonly recruited unit that has easy rank ups) feels like an important factor to consider. Some units function best as a one-off instead of a doomstack, instead of building a whole chain, the convenience is of much great value than others. Mortis Engine is really high tier and you don't really need to spam it, so having one on call is great. Another criterion could be any single RoR that adds such a tactical option as to be worth keeping all the time or against a particular faction. The Rogue Idol is such an example, being an exceptional artillery monster that GS otherwise don't have, whereas Teef Robbers, being bad units to begin with, go to the baseline of emergency unit that would otherwise never see the light of day.

This is a great video. Learned a few things about stats that I had honestly never thought about before, such as melee stats for hunters from the Empire hurting you due to balance of power. Honestly makes sense, just had never thought of that until now.

you absolute magnificent dude. Thanks for actually pulling through with it!

This is a really good video. Instead of using them as emergencies, so many people use these in regular armies to spice things up.

Especially with missile units they get much higher accuracy when leveling up, the RoR missile units thus have instant max accuracy compared to the regular ones. Sadly this is not represented in the stats, Zerkovich made a video about that. Would be helpful to have proper info on that.

Been looking forward to this for a while! Keep up the great work Legend!

From a campaign perspective the Ekrund Miners have a massive advantage via Auto-resolve. AI values satchel charges and these guys really highly.

Format was great and this idea of a tier list is a+, one thing that would be cool is briefly going over any of the niche uses some of them might have or that you have found for them personally in your journeys. I think just rating them compared to their base unit is good since nobody usually really cares about price when it comes to these imo.

I've found armor sundering to be extremely useful when fighting enemy lords and heroes, attack them with a sundering unit that reduces their armour, and have your own hero or lord fight the enemy lord inside the block of armour sundering infantry.

Stirland revenge have ap missiles compared to other free company. That's a pretty big difference.

Tierlists for the tierlist god!!

I like this format. Its fun and helpful. Thanks mate!

Would love to see a unique units tier list, with things like the Elector count state troops.

very cool! wasn't expecting this video at all so this is a nice surprise

Looking forward to the next pack of regiments, this analysis is very interesting to me

Best part of RoRs is INSTANT RECRUITMENT ... The best "special unit" is the elector count mortar unit, because they have "no friendly fire", which is perfect for firing into the melee defense line.

Its not really a huge difference, but the river troll hag ROR does have poison attacks as well.

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Been looking forward to you ranking these

Haven't played Warhammer in months, but you make such great videos regardless of my current interest in the game. Love the content Legend, hoping to greener pastures ahead for you when IE comes out.

Love the format, thank you!

You should do a landmark tier list next. I don't how many they are but if there a a lot maybe you could do per each faction.

I enjoyed this and thought it was helpful. I'm interested in seeing your thoughts on the rest. Thanks Legend

Enjoyed this format!

I remembered asking this in one of the tier list comments. Glad this made.

Can you do tier list videos of the best landmark buildings for each race? That sounds pretty cool.

Nice work again with that list!

THIS is the tier list I have been waiting for!!!

Really enjoyed the bits on vampire counts!

Great vid, defo want the others please👍

I really love this idea! Excited to see more :D

No way ,literally yesterday I searched whether you made a regiments of renown tierlist

Before 2:17 you had the bottom 2 rows text switched. I usually wouldn't notice this sort of thing, but this time I did! and I didn't see any other comments mentioning it.

You didn't comment on it as far as I saw but stirlands revenge having armour piercing bullets while regular free company don't can be big

Yay!! My birthday RoR Tier List, thanks! :D

I think its a good format; works well like the other tier lists you have done. Maybe you could add something at the end about what surprised you with certain units i.e. which ones you thought were better or worse. For example, you went into the VC thinking their units were going to be relatively meh given that they havent had much of an update since WH1 but you did seem genuinely surprised that the Tithe (zombies) were better than you thought.

I think one more thing about Helblaster version of War Wagon is that cannon itself better shooting angles since it resides on top of a wagon, compared to being just on a ground. I think it can even shoot over your troop heads, but cannot recall exactly.

Seems like a good format! The only thing I might add would be for any given RoR: Should you recruit this early or save it for when you need fast recruiting in a pinch?

You know, I've always felt like the Moon Howlerz should get anti-large, which would kind of bring them in line with other RoR hound units like the Dire Pack and the Beasts of Tashnar. Particularily, since their combat stats are a bit shit and fear really isn't super helpful for a unit that will not stay in melee for long.

i hope we get more videos like this - i'm looking forward to Bretonia and the Dark Elves

10:25 you forgot the armour piercing part. That is also quite the upgrade against the right opponnents. 43:25 they also have poison.

This is a great format for it. 1 more video on Brets, Norsca etc. For Wh2... well, since its only Vcoast and TK new faction, maybe put one base race with them. Like Skaven, who have Ikit's special units, too. If you wanna mention campaign exclusive 'green' units. That equals 4 videos altogether. (Not sure you wanna do one for WH3, probably not yet haha)

Great video, useful, love it! BUT the units for now imminent IE have already been changed, like speed for Reiksguard (75 speed now from 66) and War wagons (50 from 35ish?), ethereal changes (-phys res 25% to 50% + 25% hp pool). Most likely this will drastically impact RoR units and even counterparts, do you plan to just fill the void now with some informative videos on the topic like this one for other races and then update where necessary after the changes are live (not just announced)? For auto resolve - vanguard deployment always troubles me... some units are massacred because of it. Otherwise poison for Hags make them at least the same if not slightly better and as others mentioned the armor piercing / normal damage ratio changes to Empire RoR ranged units. Format is great, seems thought through already on gradations. Maybe one more category for which units are good in emergency recruit, but I suppose it is somewhat answered in their positions in categories here. If it sucks compared to original unit and original unit is shit in emergency - not much to expect there, + other factors can strongly affect this emergency scenario drastically, sometimes just +1-3 units makes a difference, sometimes a second army will not help.

5:40 you have a slight misconception here. yes, higher stats are more valued in auto resolve. but in the manual fight, stats of a unit dont matter for the army loss. that its the gold value of the unit. and as you can see: standard huntsman are considerd 29 gold more worth than their RR. that means losing the standard huntsman of that experiance would hurt your balance of power slightly more.

Hey legend, could you make tier lists for landmarks ? Also some kind of tier list/comparison of certain types of units would be nice. For example tier list for all artillery, or melee monsters etc...

i will say the dwarf's dragonfire warrior's fire attacks do get better with runsmiths giving weakness to fire to near by units

I love this, great job!

I hope when you do High Elves you include Imriks dragons. Gotta love dragons

Fantastic, thanks Legend

I'd say chilling aura on the Mortis engine can also help prevent cavalry which charge near it from being able to wheel around and get out. Making the Vampire Counts blobs or pile on even stronger. Same thing for trapping enemy heroes or lords. Having less speed, (in so far as I know) means the unit struggles to push entities out of the way with less acceleration. Probably also, though not of great importance, that speed may be enough to apply faster and stronger enemies nearby onto most infantry or on foot small size single entities. Making them break a little sooner. While not as valuable as the Chillgheists, I think it is still very valuable. Thoughts?

I like this format. So I’d imagine that next you’ll do regiments of renown tier lists for the Warhammer 2 base races, then the DLC races of 1 and 2, and then the Warhammer 3 races, right?

My computer can't handle WH2 anymore and I still love listening to Legend talk and analyze the game and units like this. 10/10

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Sack cheesing to reach the Hellstorm RR or Queen Bess is how I almost always play those factions

Great idea for a tier list!

It is a very nice walkthrough of all regiments of renown. Thank you for that! But the rating is very subjective, I think that some extra abilities of the units you massively undervalue. No single unit can chance the campaign but it can have an impact in battle. But for me the crucial is the actual comparison with the original unit from the roster. And in that case some regiments are simply way better. Example: luminark. Extra free spell coming with a unit. How many units bring such a benefit to the table?

I agree with basically the entire tier list, and outside of Stirland's Revenge that other comments already mentioned, I wanted to add that the Broken Tusk Mob suffer a lot from power creep. Boar Boys and Boar Boy Big'Uns used to have WAY lower Armour values (about 55 for the big'uns) and the upgrade the ROR used to have was having actually high Armour (90 iirc vs the base 55). Now they just have +15 Armour, which is such a non-upgrade they need some form of buff/ability to be notable from the regular unit they are supposed to outshine.

I like the format ^^

I don't know if you have this planned, and I think you might have done this for some of them, but have you planned on similar videos for special units like Elector Count units?

The Black Lions (The Hellblaster Volley Guns on War Wagons) are also higher than the standard Hellblaster Volley Guns. In some situations it can make it easier to shoot above your own troops.

Dragonback slayers also work really well with the banner which imbues flaming attacks and +6% weaponstrength As for the goblobber: triple rune of discouragement and a flamethrower +goblobber makes breaking enemies fun

Great video!

you missed Striland's revenge missiles being armour piercing while regular ones have almost no ability to pierce armour. Far superior to original because of that IMO.

I liked it a lot. I would prefer every race to have its own video or at least have timestamps when a new race begins

Honestly feel like a lot of the old RORs deserve some love by CA just a little reajustment will do to make them feel special

Hey Legend, at the end can you give your opinion on the overall best (biggest improvement, and overall best unit) across the whole roster? My guess is Avalanche Morters.

More tier lists, yay! New world RoR next?? 😃

Loved this one

i know they aren't technically regiment of renown but they work in a similar way so i thought you might have included them in this video anyway. elector count state troops.

I'd be great to see this redone when IE is out and the changes are live, because a considerable number of things are changing. FIRE damage will be invaluable against Vamps and tomb kings because of healing being %based on things like mortis engines, corpse carts with lodestone, and the tomb kings' faction effect in battles being cyclical. Likewise, dragons and knights got faster and pack more mass.

That's a nice summarise, but hopefully you do bretonnia, my favourite race

Hey Legend Appreciate the video as always Just as a question: There is much new content given for Immortal Empires from the starting locations up to the new mechanics for some races and the confederation-thing. Do you plan to adress any of it before the release?

If you do the rest, will you add the top bar ones to the next list? To get a good cross reference perspective?

mortal empires soon i shall lead dwarfs to glory

You forgot with the wolfriders: most units in the game have armor (not alot, but they have it), so an armour-piercing unit will deal out damage more against most units.

I would value Stirlands Revenge Higher, and I would definitely add the Templehof Luminarc to S tier. A free Net of Amentoch is just way to good to pass up, especially in an army that has a Fire or Life Wizard and lacks a light wizard.

Format is good, as someone wrote, maybe some more focus on the case if we should keep it in armies or just as an emergency :) Best regards

Just wondering, regarding the Vampire Counts regiment of renown units, do you think it might make more sense for the dire wolves RoR to be paired with the Chillgheists? It just feels like the two were meant to be paired together to erase a "large" unit quickly.

Hammer of Witches also has physical resist which might be helpful at times

Liking the format i wanna see how much (if at all) things have progressed/powercrept as the newer stuff comes up (as we sorta already did with the Rogue idol RoR being great and its relatively new compared to most of the others) Also the river troll RoR had poison attack and the original didnt and it looked like u missed that lol.

What's important to consider is that the royal altdorf RoR won't terror route when its tasked with taking down terror causing monsters. Should be considered as better than original, especially if you put the moon howlers above them.