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12: Brettonia Listen man, it's fun to roll around with an army that's half cavalry, but that sure does make going against armies that are full of spears zero fun.ĭespite dropping a place since January’s rankings I’ve definitely grown to appreciate Brettonia a more in the time since. Like, he’s meant to be a challenge, but he’s not fun. Just look forward to Skarsnik dropping on you with like three 20 stacks of goblins, which no amount of ghost uncle can really deal with. Worst Legendary Lord: Bellegar Ironhammer’s 50% upkeep penalty until he captures Karak Eight Peaks more or less means his campaign is a dead sprint to build up a big enough stack to retake it. (Give Grombrindal an unique start position plz) Sure, slayers are a situational-as-hell unit who are very good at doing and taking damage, but also who else am I gonna pick? Grombrindal? PFFFT. Heaven knows they need some.īest Legendary Lord: I mean, still have to go with my man Ungrim Ironfist, the Slayer King. Here’s hoping the potential introduction of Chaos Dwarfs (which are like Dwarfs but eeeevil) in game 3 gives them some room for differentiation. Easy to flank, sure, but even then the stunties take forever to rout. Meanwhile, they sure are a pain in the ass to fight *against* what with the endless lines of hard-to-break infantry. The runeforge is nice and all, but it’s just another faction’s mechanic with a slightly different skin.

Part of that has to do with their fairly limited playstyle, being almost entirely defensive to a fault, but it really doesn’t help that post-Greenskin and Wood Elf rework, they feel increasingly left behind when compared to the other old world factions. Over time, I’ve come to realize that the Dwarfs, while an effective, straightforward faction, are also not actually all that fun to play as in campaign. Worst Legendary Lord(s): Sigvald the Magnificent (give Slaanesh’s stupendous, serf-slaying sire some significant support, posthaste!) Kazrak One-Eye (Just super vanilla) 13: Dwarfs Dropped a whole five spots? That's worthy of a grudgin'

Hey, at least there’s hope for game 3, right? Seems like people were into the way hordes were treated in Total War Troy, so that’s a good sign for the future.īest Legendary Lord(s): Archaeon the Everchosen and Malagor the Dark Omen are both scary casters who are capable of going in melee alright. I haven’t really messed with either since my last blog, but that’s the stance I’m gonna stick with. These two factions remain at the bottom, probably because hordes are boring and also bad. Beastmen Somewhere a chaos lord is crying tears of fire and blood at how boring he is to play.

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If you need a refresher on the factions individual mechanics, or just need to hide from family during holiday festivities, consider giving my original ranking blog series a read as a companion piece to this. So, without much adieu, I present my revised rankings of the fifteen factions in Total War Warhammer II… because I’ve had a lot of time on my hands this year.

Since my three-part, Dickens-length (no seriously, it’s like twice as long as the undergrad thesis I wrote to graduate college) rankings in January, things have changed both the game and my opinions. Sure, Dead by Daylight is up there, that new Calladuty is alright, and I definitely put some time into Age of Wonders Planetfall, but it turns out I’ve ended 2020 the same way I started 2020: with a bunch of Total War Warhammer II.

So instead, before I throw down my very important, very professional, and doubtless very long write ups on my favorite games of 2020, both those that came out this year and those that did not, I thought it was time to continue talking about the game I played the most of this year. No anime blog this year, because I’ve barely watched any anime in the last handful of months, but just assume that it would be me constantly yelling “Watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes (the original, not the remake) you coward” over and over again while I continue to contemplate ending my VRV subscription. Hello and welcome to the start of ArbitraryWater’s 2020 Game of the Year Championship Awards. It's something that I did once, god have mercy on me. GOTY 2020 BONUS: Ranking of Warhammers revised The image you see on your screen is not a simulation.

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