Red Alert 2: [YR] - Infantry Tier List 

Tier List: Ranks Flak Trooper D. Flak Trooper: At least I have a job.

tg: "You're literally the worst infantry in the game." Flak Tropper: "beats being in the gulag."

The voice clips really take this video to a higher level.

Finally. Yuri's revenge but two yuri prime

Flak Trooper: Oh yeah? Now lets compare everyone's ability to shoot down aircraft and see who comes out on top.

Chrono seals can make a superb companion to a legionnaire as they are normally weak to masses of cheap infantries. The deal can cover them while they erase that nice walled of con yard.

10:23 "atleast i have job" really roasted me xD

I won't really debate this tier list, since it is made based on fights with the AI, and considering you can win most games against it without infantry, I don't think there is much point in arguing about which unit should be which tier. Regardless, I like this video format, the voice lines for each infantry unit were a nice touch too, keep up the good work.

Rocketeers, Desolators and probably Chrono Legionnaires should've been S in my opinion, since swarming a large group out of any of these units shine in so many strategies. Other than that, pretty accurate table. Paying respects to flakies.

Yuri prime is so OP. It should be S++. I had navy, tanks and erything else captured by one Yuri prime from ra2. It can multi mind control, so my 20 dreadnaughts were captured before they managed to shoot single shot, including supporting submarines and scorpions.

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Poor Soviets, taking up the majority of the bottom slots in this ranking. Their best infantry units are either shared with other factions (Engineer, Attack Dog), campaign/moon-based level exclusive (Cosmonaut), country exclusive (Desolator), or their hero unit in _Yuri's Revenge_ (Boris). Then again, it's not surprising; their riflemen are as basic as they come (only there via obligation), and their anti-air infantry are broken upon getting fully promoted! (Tesla Troopers are beneficial next to Tesla Coils, and a lot of fun and great in a Battle Fortress; but on their own, they are slow and don't have much use except against the entry-level tanks.) The Allies have the most variety with their infantry, and end up having the best units in that department altogether. I agree with most of these rankings, too. I think the Rocketeer could be bumped up to A-tier (seeing how great they are in a big pack); but other than that, great list!

10 minuts of quality content.

oof. as an unemployed man that hit hard.

yessss i was so excited

I completely agree with your list! I would Love to see a list like this one with C&C3 Tiberium Wars units (if you ever play that game in your channel) Looking forward for the vehicles tier líst!

I dont see how deso rank lower than gi other than that pretty good list Best area denial in entire rts history only thing that can rival it sc2 liberator

Rocketeer should be in A, PSI Commando should be demoted. Other than that it's a good list. Now onto the Land, Air, Sea vehicles, base defenses and super weapons tier lists!

I feel like GIs were seriously powerful in the original RA2. Enough of them would take down just about anything. I think YR levelled it out a bit. Also I feel an important role of Attack Dogs is stopping spies.. Thanks for the video.

Cant wait for vehicle and base structure tier list

TG. I mean uhh... You missed the freed slaves

Nice list, do tanks and naval units next

Nice! Now do the vehicles tierlist.

nicee excited to see your coming tier lists, what did you take in the most as a factor btw? like raw power or strength / cost efficiency or the versatility of the unit?

Hey tg, I've been watching all your videos and playing lots of missions repeatedly and I can say that I pretty much agree with this tier list. I think I'd put conscripts at B tier though. One time I tried doing a run of winning missions using only conscripts as an attacking unit. A bunch of them (30) can really do serious damage when attacking a base at once. And when you think about it, that's literally a cost of 3 rhino tanks. You wouldn't attack a base with just 3 tanks, you'd lose a trade. The only tedious part about conscripts is that it takes time to group them all together and you must maintain them in a crowd if you wish to take on any fight, but aside from that, they are really cost efficient units. Also navy seals can easily be A. Just keep one seal hidden in a base in case you need it, and when enemy attacks either with troops or ships it can really make a huge difference. I give A mostly because you don't need to micro them, few clicks and you clean everything up.

I was expecting voice reveal for commentary. Eitherway, this one is better to catch up the thoughts

The last clip amuses me 🤭

I think attack dogs deserve their own "Good Boy" tier.

7:30 Enabling Waypoint Mode and assigning targets for Chrono Ivan to attack will make him one of the fastest-attacking units in the game, especially if all the targets are within a short distance from him, so the cooldown from each teleportation is minimal.

Ohh that Doom tune at the end

Never seen the real unique Yuri Prime that can control anyone from any distance, maybe do a video about it?

Yuri will never be forgotten

vehicle tierlist next?

Allied Rocketeer: Middle B GDI Jump Trooper: Bottom D

Hehe, poor Flak Trooper... it doesn't even get the full Sweet Little Dead Bunny theme!

Will you do one of these for vehicles?

G.I. is surely overrated. Boris should be higher than Tanya in general while considering actual field wars. Deso could be S tier. Rocketeers could move to A.

If I being honest Boris deserves an easy S tier his AK47 is very powerfull agenst tanks and his Migs you already know about them

Dude you forgot that Cosmonaut can be recruited in skirmish game, but only Moon map can do it

What would you play first -Soviet campaign -flipped mission -mental omega -c&c generals(my suggestion)

Desolators deserve S! Other than that it's a good list!

Boris and deselator i think it's better to be on S And virus on A

From my experience in multiplayer, and singleplayer or vs. AI in parenthesis: Conscript: B (B) Simple Answer: Cheap, and Meat Shield/Canon Fodder. It forces Tank-on-tank engagements to be who manages the horde better because your tank's auto-attack will be drawn to the conscripts and not the enemy tanks. You may just even opt to run the conscripts over, but you run the gamble of taking in more DPS than necessary. SP/vs AI: Red Dawn and City of Lights GI: B (S) In multiplayer if you can set them up precarious locations they are deadly wall of DPS. But hence a lot of their strength costs them mobility. And if set up incorrectly, players will just drive past or around them. SP/vs AI: The AI does not know how to deal with them beyond using instakills or air units. Initiate: A (S) In multiplayer, they're lukewarm at best. They're biggest advantage is that their attack can hurt both armored and unarmored units equally, but they have the lowest range of all basic infantry and have no armor, like the GI. However, they get really useful in Garrisons(mainly because of an oversight that gives them more damage output than intended). SP/vs AI: Like the GI, the AI does not know how to handle dealing with Initiate Garrisons unless using Artillery or Air Units. Dogs: A (C) Really good early scouts with their vision range of 5 cells. Turns invincible when attacking because they temporary turn into a projectile. Also good later on as canon fodder. SP/vs AI: You only really build them because of spies. And it isn't too useful for scouting because the AI only really has 1 build order. Engineers: S (A) Pretty vital if there are capturable tech structures on the map. Getting Oil as soon as possible is great especially because you get your money back because of initial 1000 credit boost to whoever captures the Oil Derrick first. Machine Shops and Hospitals are great for unit survival. The Engineer rush is funny but mostly as a one-time gag against newer players. SP/vs AI: The Engineer loses its novelty against the AI because quite frankly the AI likes to wall off things in their base or even cheat to get a counter out (the Yuri AI is notorious for getting a Yuri Clone before Psychic Radar). Flak Trooper: D (D) Clown, you are a clown for using them. Severely outclassed by the utility of the Flak Track or Sea Scorpion's DPS on naval maps. Guardian GI: C (S) In multiplayer, they're a bit too slow as Anti-Armor. They're decent against Air Units but the IFV is just slightly better at dishing out DPS against Air. They get viable through IFVs though, giving you an answer to Rhinos that can attack from a safe range vs them. SP/vs AI: The GGIs seem stronger than they look especially with their introduction on the first allied mission on YR, kinda influencing why people new to online play are using them. No, they're just just flat out stronger in the campaigns just like how an Apocalypse Tank can be 2-shotted by a 2-link Prism Tower-this is only true in the campaign. Though in Skirmish, it's the same thing, the AI does not know to deal with GGIs beyond instakills. Tesla Troopers: C (D) Just like the GGI, they are a bit slow as an anti-ground potion. And they have abyssmal range. You can mitigate their slowness by using a Flak Track to get them where they need to be, but that's like same kind of strat involves Engineers, Crazy Ivans and, Terrorists. They can power up Tesla coils which is good I guess, but most of time leads to overkill which is wasted damage potential. SP/vs AI: Beyond City of Lights as a gimmick, the AI sees farther and will retaliate faster because the AI always has vision on the entire map. Brute: B (D) Yuri's equivalent to the Dogs, a scout. It is also immune to other dogs but is a bit slower. A deployed GI is their bane if approached from the wrong direction, and they don't have the luxury of turning into a projectile when attacking. Rarely used for their anti-ground capabilities because it's a melee unit. SP/vs AI: Clown unit. Sniper: S (S) One of the best infantry in the game. Sure it, has 1 purpose but you can put them in IFVs and get an army of Elite IFVs(very strong) since experience gets credited to IFV. Virus: S (S) Same as the sniper's purpose above, just shorter range but with an AoE. Rocketeers: A (A) Rocketeer rush if you can pull it off. And even then a Cloud of Rocketeers is potent even against Flak. Cosmonaut: (S) Campaign only unit, has almost the same stats as a Rocketeer but fires ever so slightly faster. Plus there's an exploit how you can get more Cosmonauts than usual by building then selling a barracks. Terrorist: D (D) Clown. You are a clown for using them. Crazy Ivan outclasses them. There are niche cases that they can be used on, but that's what they are NICHE. Crazy Ivan: D (D) Same Tier has the Terrorist but slight better because they can be used for more than just one attack. SP/vs AI: It's a melee unit, see Brute for same problem. Desolator: S (S) King of Area Denial. With a decent Anti-ground weapon as well. The initial burst of radiation stacks damage. Only thwarted by Snipers, Virus or Air Units. Yuri Clone: C (A) Weird intermediary unit, use a Mastermind instead. Can detect spies. Yeah, this one's pretty situational. But can prove useful as a deterrent against armor columns. SP/vs AI: When used defensively, the AI has no idea of handling them, again kinda like the GI. Psi Commando: C (A) An expensive Yuri Clone that can destroy buildings... it's pretty eh. Spy: C (S) It's difficult to use thess guys on Human players who'd have Dogs, Psychic Towers and Yuri Clones running around their base. SP/vs AI: Because the AI has cheat money that's why infiltrating AI Refineries is very stronk. Navy Seal: A (A) Another way you can stack Elite IFVs, just in a less safe range. They have the additional ability of just blowing up buildings, and with IFVs, this can be used to dangerous effect. Chrono Legionnaire: A (C) Against unsuspecting human players they annoying to deal with. They also have niche use of destroying civilian buildings and tech structures without leaving rubble, making the area buildable. SP/vs AI: Depending on use case, they can be very powerful but most of the time they are caught by the AI's hyper-awareness. Chrono Ivan: B (A) Weird stolen tech unit. Weird applications. Not particularly the best at anything nor the worst. Chrono Commando: S+ (S+) The best... if you can get one for yourself. Being able to teleport, defends versus Infantry and just destroy buildings in a relatively quick fashion is pretty potent. Tanya: A (A) Just a more expensive Navy Seal but can deal with Armor. Boris: A (A) Same thing as Tanya really, but with longer range and slower DPS. His anti-armor capabilties only really shines when he's elite. The MiGs are a crapshoot on when they arrive. They can arrive either very late or almost instantly depending on map size and location on the map. Yuri Prime: S (S) An optional but, powerful addition to the Yuri Deathball strat. Yuri Prime(RA2): (S) Rare campaign-only unit found in Chrono Storm. It was obviously overpowered, being able to mind control over long distances.

SS is Chrono Commando (Oneshoots all buildings) and Yuri Prime (has a range like a half a map)

I somewhat agree. Chrono Ivan can be as almost as deadly as the Chrono Commando. They can plant their bomb that can cause an area damage which will damage around him and teleport away, Crazy Iván deserves a better rank due to the splash damage. G.I. In S tear I disagree. I'd lower them a tier

In game files there are a unused Eva quotes explaining each unit

Excuse me. Where's the slave? The most broken unit of all. He collects resources, and is free to replace.

" At least i have job " ... oh god

Engineers can't be promoted. Tell that to the elite engineers in St Louis mission

Good list, but I think GI and Guardian GI should switch positions since anti tank is so crucial in the game. Guardian GI also turns Battle Fortress into arguably the best unit in the game.

Surprised the Navy Seal didn't make it to A or even S tier.

Boris have arvied in tier A

Tesla trooper in C-Tier? BS! Those MoFos used in large numbers will shred through basically anything, that is not specifically anti-infantry and even at that, they will cause serious damage! That is a solid A-tier unit!

As someone who skirmishes against Brutal AI only, here's the choices I would differ in: Cosmonaut - B (Mission only penalty) Rocketeer - A Yuri Clone - A Psi Commando - B (Difficulty in Unlocking) Navy Seal - A Chrono Commando - B (") Tanya - S

tg ranked G.I in S rank: "Garrison is power!"

Desolators should be the S, with several desolators in one Flak track, it could ruin prism tanks no matter how many of them(number them and deploy them when the track is just destroyed). That are few ways to counter overwhelming prism tanks for soviet

I'd change the following: Rocketeers to A: for how cheap and easy they are to get relative to their power. Only weakness is health. Cosmonauts to A: can't get them outside of campaign without mods; outside of campaign if you used the same strat vs rocketeers you can still easily dispatch them Tesla Troopers to B: 1. They're definitely better than conscripts 2. When used as short range defence (especially vs vehicles) they're pretty good. So long as you don't lead them in offense you can realize their potential

You mostly used rocketeers along the Alied's Campaign vids, i thought you'll put em in S xD

Finaly Boris have arived!

How about the Hollywood’s Heroes

Id push conscript to c or maybe d but keep flak on lowest even though he is infantrys nightmare being nearly as powerful as a seal against infantry crowds

Soviet's supposedly weaker at infantries but have stronger vehicles, but then there's Allies' mirage and prism, and to add salt to the wound they also get battle fortress in YR too :\.

Rocketeer is S for me if you manage to rush him out early just one elite can tear conyard apart. C for late game if spammed brainlessly Seal is A if enemy (real person) player know his surrounding poorly and get all his base c4'd. Initiate is S on urban map as garrisoned one just burn everything in 2 seconds. Spy is B for me if you are against at least average player who know how to react. Dogs are A on early game scout D after that. Ivan & terrorist are of course D but they are S on fun to use if you have chronosphere.

hate to be that guy but the decription for tanya has a error. it should be identical? not ironical otherwise another awesome vid

What about mental omega? Flak trooper seemed to be buffed in RA2YR (still trash) like flak trucks, but what really allow them on doing their time is in RA3. Flak units will also cause fdly fire, there no way to rank them higher then C

do vehicles next

Me: You are useless. Get out. Flack Trooper: I'm going. *silently (at least I have job). Me: Still speaking? FT: Moving out. That's true about flack troopers. They are preety useless. I don't remember using this troops except for the 3rd ra2 mission (big apple). They get promotion to be more useless. But the AI loves them a lot.

"Flak trooper" Atleast i have job xD

Vehicle tier list

One thing that I would complain about this list is how rocketeers should've been at S tier. They are the second most favorite infantry for the allies besides GIs. And combine then with barrack-infiltrating spy to gain veteran rockies, they are unstoppable. Sure they are weak in low numbers and get wrecked by flaks if you're not careful, but their reliability is undeniable. Other than that this list is quite good. Still rip to the flak guys

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Amazing vid man, but wouldn't rank GI that high.

Even against Ai, Rocketeer should still be S tier since the Ai doesn't have the brain to build anti-air units for outside of their base.

What about slaves?

Tesla trooper is useless against Allied AI because it deploys seals in IFV´s and attack automatically the Teslas. Spy top tier? *barf* *barf* spy is dead

I dont agree with conscript being so low considering how tanky they are and how conscript spam is a viable tactic to cover tank rushes, individually weak, together stronk

Initiate vs GI - Depends on the map. On urban maps Initiate wins by far. Chrono Legionnaire isn't something I'd put on A Tier because he comes very late in the tech tree and is only good against unprotected bases. Yuri Prime is way too high. Far down the tech tree and only good for soloing unprotected bases.

I would put rocketeer on A tier, desolator on S tier, chrono legionaire on B tier, conscript on B tier, Initate on B tier

Why can't Boris swim?

Смешной субъективный рейтинг. Ожидал лучшего.

The subtitles are smol so i can't read them properly😅

Attack dog got the B tier for being the "Best boi and gal".

One thing about why i like tanya than boris He can't swim

poor flak trooper :(

this is probably the most controversial video you will ever make lmao

The Soviet infantry units cannot be compared with the allies no matter in power or numbers, that's unfair. The terrorist and crazy Ivan are useless units in game, even the flak trooper is weaker than the rocketeer.

Hmm, G.I. should be A-tier, while Initiate should be S-tier. Navy SEAL should be A-tier, though I'm not sure if Yuri Clone should truly be on B-tier or move to A-tier. Tanya does deserve to be on A-tier, but to be honest, her Elite promotion gives her auto healing... you should know that, tg-sacred. As expected, Allies win on Infantry... now, who's going to rule on Vehicles, Air, Naval, and Buildings/Defenses? Also, please do more of these tier lists for other C&C games, not to mention HoMM 2 and 3. 10:13: Hey, at least you can scare our air power away. Also, you can take down those V3 missiles if you're grouped with fellow gulag mates, if you can catch my drift.

Crazy Ivan should be S-rank because he managed to bomb Gen Melvin .

I'd like to provide some of my own thoughts of how I would change some of these rankings, let me know what you guys think. :) GIs are great and all, but they are not that great. They are a bit more expensive than Conscripts so they can't quite perform the same jobs that a Conscript can, and they don't have as big of a damage output garrisoned in structures as Initiates do (at least in the base game, I think Initiates have a bit lower DPS in CNCNet but I think they are still the best to garrison). Top of A Tier at max. Desolators are definitely the best infantry in the game hands down, they're a Tesla Trooper on steroids that is only slightly more expensive. They rip infantry apart and dish out by-far the best damage against vehicles that any infantry can do due to their deploy function. Top of S tier, no doubt about that in my mind. Rocketeers are literally the second-best infantry in the game, being a cheap Barracks-produced air unit with absurd damage output even dedicated anti-air can struggle to deal with them before dying. You really cannot underestimate the fact that they are built out of the Barracks, this means they are not sucking up any production time out of your Factory and thus you can make crazy air-based counter attacks without having to sacrifice any production time. Being an Air Unit also makes the Rocketeer virtually immune to almost all normal anti-infantry threats and requires your enemy to force out lots of anti-air defense that they almost surely do not want. Rocketeers can LITERALLY win you games singlehandedly. Should definitely be mid to high A tier. Conscripts are way more solid than that. They are so ridiculously cheap and easy to mass-produce and are a key part of any major push against an Allied or Yuri player especially if you ditch or leave your Desolators at home to defend. If Allied DON'T throw SEALs into their Battle Fortresses, the Conscripts will inflict HUGE damage, but if they do that's less GGIs they can put in them, so literally just the fear that Conscripts exist force Allied players to play differently from what they'd like. Or, more-so in the case of Vs AI, this isn't even a factor because they rarely use units like SEALs anyway and thus Conscripts have mostly free reign to begin with. Due to their cheapness and being an infantry unit they also heavily hardcounter two of the main advantages Yuri players have, Mind Control and Magnetrons. Should be at least mid to low B tier I think. Tesla Troopers also tend to be undervalued. They can dish out some seriously nasty damage to both tanks and infantry at probably the fairest price in the game for a dedicated anti-tank infantry. GGIs may become uncrushable when deployed, but Tesla Troopers have that by default and GGIs still don't get tank damage until deployed and are immobile unless you stick them in a Battle Fortress. The Tesla Trooper has no such downsides and is only slightly more expensive. Definitely at least low A tier. Brutes are like literally almost totally useless, and definitely the least-powerful infantry in the game. At least Flak Troopers can DO damage to the thing they are suppose to hardcounter, air, but Brutes can't even catch up to most tanks like Grizzlies or Rhinos. The only thing that makes them strong is the Genetic Mutator, but that's really more-so the Genetic Mutator's strength and not the Brute's strength. They definitely should be D Tier. I also want to say that Yuri Prime is a bit of a strange one to rank. It's by-far the most fragile and temperamental commando to use. I think S tier works, but I would be more willing to say it's too quirky to be rankable, not to say that it isn't good but its one of the more nuanced units in the game that judging a raw objective strength value for is tricky to maybe impossible, because it depends on a lot of weird factors. It could achieve effectively infinite strength or none at all.

GI is Best

WHERE ARE THE SLAVE MINERRRRRRRS 😀

Ra 2 flak troopers, totally trash Ra 3: Overpowered AF. And if you try to crush them while on mines mode it can damage the vehicles and eventually destroy it.

YURI PRIME SUPREMACY

So... spam GI's got it.

I can send you the demonstration clips I recorded man

Virus + snipe4

I disagree in many cases but thanks for sharing. Your mind is up.

Seriously? I thought you love initiates (esp garrisoned) more than anything else in this game.

Id have Flak troopers at most a B ranking... I see nothing better than cheap AA gun Infantry. "This guns heavy".

I can see the logic how they are rated, but I have to disagree. You need to factor in market price. Tesla Troopers and Brutes would have been in C-grade have they not cost 500 apiece. The SEAL for that reason would be on par with Tanya simply because of his adjusted cost. The SEAL is in no way in the same tier as Dogs. GIs are on par with Initiates, they are both in S-grade or A-grade. I can see why you put GIs above, but Initiates have 2 situational perks: double up as power for bio reactors and their garrison-weapon. Sure you can argue GIs can be used in bio reactors too but Initiates are more readily available for that purpose. The Desolator is S-tier. Spy is not S-tier despite his potential and uses. Same thing, Engineers are too high up even though they're awesome especially in IFVs for Allies.