Tomb Kings Unit Roster Tier Ranking 

Speaking as someone that largely plays on normal battle difficulty, I've never found the focus on the hardest difficulty an issue. All of the information given across all the many videos still applies just the same, and I've notably improved my play from things you've said. I know playing on normal that my units have more leadership and the enemies aren't getting insane leadership and melee attack/defence buffs. And that doesn't change how good the knowledge and playmaking here is. I just feel no desire to play on a difficulty that invalidates half of most factions rosters with lazy numbers, so I don't. But I'll keep coming back here so long as I'm still learning, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I just love the Tomb Kings design. They have so many cool looking units.

The entire Tomb Kings roster is S tier. It's all either skeletons, big statues of skeletons, or siege weapons firing skeletons.

What I liked most about TK campaigns is due to the unit caps, I'm constantly making use of all levels of units throughout the entire campaign. It encourages me to make balanced armies and not just doomstack everything like I tend to do with other factions.

"they have very few trash units, but a lot of garbage" if that aint a glowing recommendation I don't know what is.

Ah carrion, I've seen two units of them lose against a single artillery crew. On Normal difficulty.

TK definitely have one of the most balanced rosters and their mechanics make them super fun to play, best dlc imo

The one unit I'd hard disagree with is Sepulchral stalkers. They're not actually classified as cavalry but as "monstrous infantry", and when you look at them from that direction I think they come off a lot better. Their strength isn't really their speed, it's their anti-large, charge bonus, and ranged attack. Sepulchral stalkers are excellent as anti-cavalry, anti-monstrous cavalry, and anti-monstrous infantry. I've found their ranged attack can do a ton of damage. The key thing is that they're really a defensive unit, not an offensive one.

Yes, finally, by favorite faction! I love Skaven, I have the Archlord of Choas achievement, and the Empire is really fun, but these guys just are perfection in my mind. Also, great timing legend, talk about the spooky scary skeletons on the first day of spooktober.

You should have called S tier a Tombstack, talk about a missed opportunity.

Glad to see all these rankings mate! You’re doing a great job with em.

The best dmg dealer in the early game is the casket of Souls.

Carrions better be S+ Tier or I unsub

Maybe if Nehek warriors had stalk, they would be more useful. Thematic too, as hit and run sand-hidden units. My only gripe with tomb guard is capacity, you get so many archers and so few tomb guard. It actually looks like tomb king's roster is well balanced, with tiers being relevant to their ranking. As for the Sepuchral Stalker, I've also struggled a bit with them. Always lose a few more than I think I will and before you know it, they disintegrate.

Sepulchral Stalkers are actually defensive monstrous infantry and not cavalry. They can be used to flank after killing enemy flanking cavalry and their missile attack is pretty pretty good vs blobbed up units. Easily A tier unit especially for Khalida.

The tomb kings roster is so small by comparison to other factions. We DESPERATELY need a Nagash DLC to revamp this shit.

"Drown the enemy in bones!" Oh my.

Wow, I'm surprised that the Nehekheran Warriors got a C, I half expected them to be in Trash. Despite usually playing on Normal difficulty I rarely recruit them. Mostly because they lack shields. I'm really liking the videos man! Really gives me a good run-down of a faction's roster.

Excellent video. Keep pumping out these tier videos, they are fantastic.

I was literally just watching tomb kings for dummies and was hoping you'd make a TK tier list. Praise!

Thanks, been looking forward to this one the most. Awesome content Legend!

Hey Legend, loving these tier list videos! Glad to hear you're enjoying your break. Not sure how you feel about suggestions for videos, but I'd definitely welcome a video on lord and hero builds for each race. Sometimes it can be confusing how to spend your skill points, especially when playing a race for the first time. Just some food for thought :)

Let's appreciate the smooth transition of the bow between the cards of regular archers and horse archers after Legend puts them on the list :P

Sepulcheral Stalkers dumpster enemy cav in my experience; especially if they get their shots off prior to the charge. Also, the trick to using the Necropolis Knights is putting them behind your line then moving them through to keep rear charging. Unless something has changed recently they're the only cav that can move through blobs of units without getting stuck.

Never felt left out by you focusing on harder battle difficulty, been trying to move my battle difficulty up, so these help a lot.

Nice. Out of all of them, this is the one I was most curious about, because of how differently the faction works. You have to use almost every unit if you want to fill out your armies, so I suppose it makes sense most of them are mid-range, because they're at least usable. Never done an Arkhan the Black campaign before, but I'm intrigued that the hexwraiths are apparently that good for him.

Just what I was looking for today. Thank you Legend!

You seem really upbeat in this video and it makes it really enjoyable. I don't play legendary but still enjoy trying to be pretty efficient so these videos are a lot of fun.

Amazing stuff, very informative. I always struggled with the problem of what to recruit.

Love your videos! And this video came just in time for one of my favorite factions. 😜 I hope to see in the future Unit Roster Tier Ranking for Vampire Coast, Beastmen and Norsca. 🍻

I would say, that a tier list for normal battles would pretty much look the same as for very hard. A unit of archers can win a battle without losing a single unit. A unit of melee infantry will basically never be able to do that. It doesn't matter what the difficulty setting is.

I appreciate the clarification on the difficulties!

Recently found your channel, have really enjoyed all your videos, especially ones that help me decide which campaign to play next. As someone who has played more Tomb Kings campaigns than anything else and really loves the faction (And is getting ready to buy and use them for the new tabletop version), this video is spot on. I have actually never used scorpions extensively so that's interesting to hear, but otherwise I 100% agree with your rankings for each unit.

Love your videos, and love even more your complex rating. I enjoy hard to very hard difficulty, but can understand why you rate these units the way you do. Helps a lot, thx!

Was waiting for this 1!

Good stuff as always legend.

My favourite unit tier list of all you have done so far

I've been struggling with Tomb Kings, so this is greatly appreciated

The sepulchral stalkers are monstrous infantry, not cavalry. Their placement in the building chain is weird, but I think comparing them to cav is unfair. They're actually pretty great at protecting the flanks - their ranged attack is great at thinning out incoming cavalry. I think theyre useful enough to be B tier.

these tier lists make my day

Another great one legend!

In general, it would be time to make a new release in the realities of Warhammer 3: - Scorpions are now tier 3 (was tier 4), but their capacity is only +1 (was +2), only in capitals... still A+. Earlier, but less. - All capacity-infantry lost their place in A-B tier, now rather B-C (because of Ushabti, see next) - Ushabti acquired a number of strong changes, now A+ tier: -- 1) now on t2-t3 building (was t3-t4), in small settlements, which gives +2 capacity !!! (regular and bows, was only regular +1). Compared to infantry buildings, 2 vs 3 capacity looks much nicer than 1 vs 3. The capacity is now enough to be able to forgo infantry and still fill all armies with the necessary stuff. -- 2) a new desert, giving them indefatigability (unique) -- 3) lords have received an AoE heal in the red talent tree that heals everyone. This greatly strengthens the constructs and further devalues the infantry. Previously, healing was mostly only for undead (passive spell abilities, faction abilities in combat). Plus, Ushabti perfectly hold the formation for the blob, which can be healed by AoE.

Absolutely fantastic work again. Would love beastmen and a hero one

I love these videos! The Stalkers are ok. You've got them about right (I'd call them a B-, but since that's not a thing I can't argue with C). I use them like a Medusa utilizing their ranged attacks on the flanks. However, they can, and do, take a beating in melee. Keep this series going!

I play on normal and I love these videos, on normal some units go up a tier or two but this information can be very useful and largely applied to normal as well. Great units on very hard are great on normal as well, and many units which suck on very hard suck on normal too. And anyway, ranged and single entities are the meta on all difficulties.

yet more great work....keep it coming please.

I'm not the biggest RU-vid guy (too old I guess) but your tier lists are so freaking good. They brought me back to playing TWW2 even after 250h spend in the game. Cheers mate.

Was very interested in seeing this list. The idea of seeing a list based solely on the actual performance instead of performance vs cost really shows how well each unit does instead of how easily they repay what you put into them

Love these vids.

I realy agree a lot with your rankings. Keep up the good work :)

i dont know why i love these videos so much

Sepulchral stalkers are antilarge ranged units, not cavalry, and even count as monstrous infantry if I am remembering right, and do a damn good job of it for the most part.

The stalker actually is a pretty good range unit if you can buff up their ammo account. It does AoE damage so its a hard counter against enemy infantry spam.

@LegendofTotalWar Great stuff - pretty much in line with my own thinking! I'd love to see an Arkhan campaign where you migrate to Nagashizzar - if at all possible!

Sepulchral Stalkers are very nice when you're going up against the Bretonnians in Araby to deal with their cavalry spam. I don't tend to use them after I've dealt with that initial early game threat, however.

I have never clicked on a video this fast. Love you Legend!

Finally I was waiting for tk ranking:D

Okay here's a 4d chess tier list to make: unique buildings. Manscaped.

Great video One of my top 3 favorite factions to play. Just wish I was a little better with them.

"I drown the enemy in bones." -LegendTotalWar "Oh my!" - George Takai

Love watching these videos while playing Warhammer 2.

Love a good Tier List!

Whoop keep these coming

Looking forward to the tierlist tierlist where you rank how well your tierlist videos did :p

Thanks for the video

I must say - I am not playing anywhere near to legendary/very high battles, but I really enjoy your videos. And thanks to your videos, I finally managed to pull of very satisfying campaign with Ikit Claw (I finally learned the value of Skavenslave Slingers for example) :) So I don't know who is complaining, that you are talking about the highest difficulty, but there is enough stuff in your videos, that can be taken to lower difficulties as well :) May the Dark Gods bless you for that :)

The Tomb Kings are one of the factions I’m most looking forward to buying. I love the theme of the faction and the unit cap sounds like a fun challenge.

Só good. I learned a lot again 👍

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ! THANK YOU !

I do feel like the casket is probably a bit of a limitation for this kind of ranking. Its an insane unit that utterly carries you up to like turn 100 and probably by far the most influential unit in the tk roster but you just cant doom stack it.

Brilliant video. loving this series but could do with a little less background noise. IMO

I play the units that I like, aesthetics and gameplay wise on normal, but sometimes i see myself infront of a huge wall (or settlement rather) and then all the knowledge i got from you, help me to make an army or to adjust mine to easily defeat those too! So yeah great disclaimer, but as a few people already said, your word still is totally valid in lower difficulties! And just gives ideas for different Army compositions! ^^ Cannot wait for more of those!

Always interesting when you look at the clock and you are watching the video a couple hours before legend recorded it.

Note about Hexwraiths is that they're a T5 unit for Vamp Counts and Arkhan gets them at T3 so very good bang for your buck, and the Nagashizzar landmark also gets their global recruit time to 1 turn on its own.

Units for running down like dogs and lighter cav are not completely useless, they work not only after the battle is won. They can get some free damage on routing units whose melee stats are nullified while making sure they will not return. Routing troops lose half of their balance of power and broken are instantly as good as dead. Though I'm not sure if this isn't less useful on higher difficulties where everything seems to be nigh unbreakable.

I don’t know why but I’ve started to grow on spearmen. I’ve found they are pretty cheap and have decent melee defence compared to sword infantry. Don’t know how much more effective they are but I just think they’re neat

im addicted to these tier ranking videos.

I play on normal. I have fun when playing. Legend plays on Legendary and VH battle. He has fun. It all comes down to having fun. Isn't that why we bought the game in the first place?

Nice, useful one. I guess next campaign I start will be Arkhan, it’s time to get into TK… I will have great use of this comparison, thx for the tips 👍

I really love playing Khalida's campaign. Sepulchral Stalkers works awesomely with her whe I am fighting the Bretonnian Hordes. I use Sepulchral Stalkers as monstrous holding infantry against other monsters. It works. I see its ranged attack as a longer extension of their spears. Disrupts charges beautifully. They worked well forming intermittent walls with Tomb Guards protecting my artillery or archers. Necropolis Knights Halberd is good to counter other cavalry as well. It maybe just me but I am always annoyed by enemy cavalry. So I am really glad TK has a good counter for heavy cav.

1 army of stalkers(regiment of renown) on multiplayer does amazing stuff against single target large units when kept behind your armies. Especially against rush factions

Great videos. Wood Elves when?

I do love sepulcral stalkers actually. They're good as a 2nd line unit that can deal a decent bit of ranged damage, and then when your frontline unit dies they can hold the line in melee reasonably well (better than skeleton archer anyway). So you don't really have to micro them too much which is nice.

Whenever i start a new campaign i watch a legend tier list

I learned a lot from this one.

When I play Arkhan, I very early do that rite that gives you the special hero that colonizes ruins at tier 3, and then send that dude directly to nagashizar or whatever its called. Instant colonize at tier 3 very early in the game, then focus on growth. I've never had an enemy army actually go attack it either, they seem to ignore it, possibly because its in such a remote location out of the way. As a result, I can get it to tier 5 around the same time as my very first settlements hit tier 5.

looking forward to the vampire coast vid

Tomb Kings are one of the coolest aesthetics in Warhammer, all those clean looking skeletons and large shields, with the constructs in between them. A lot more regal than the shabby vampire counts or coast.

Hey legend! I think I can speak for every1 when I say we are loving the tier lists. Any chance of a beastmen list?

Looking forward to the britonia list.

i recently had a good match where i tried mixing Nehekhara Warriors in with my spearmen frontline, and i find the best role for them is to support your skeleton spearmen with better damage, while the spearmen tank enemy damage

I play on normal orhard difficulty (eventually) only and I always read this tier lists as this: units perform even better on every tier of the list than on very hard/legendary. :) So it makes more sense to recruit more melee infantry and Trash tier units, but also makes doomstacks a lot more powerful at the same time.

Well, the Sepulchral Stalker is listed as monstrous infantry so it wouldn´t be fair to compare it to cavalry. I just don´t understand why they´re in the cavalry building chain.

Love this video. Agree with everything 100%! Can you get Hex wraiths playing as Khemri/Settra?

Sepulcher Stalkers are definitely a strange unit but to me they can be really versatile. Their ranged attack is surprisingly damn strong and their 50 speed does allow them to flank faster than most, and while they don't go as fast as skirmish cavalry they basically carry sawed off shotguns. Plus their speed is low for cavalry but they have decent fighting stats where, if played right, the only thing that can catch them are light cav, and they can run through light cav pretty nicely. Their armor does allow them to get into end fight scraps and do decent work, and their stalk ability does allow them some flexibility in either going around to flanks, targeting enemy archers or catapults, or protecting your own back line and baiting cav.

Nice list. Subjectively, and based solely on my own experience, I would place the melee Ushabti at C and Sepulcheral staulkers at B, but overall; excellent rankings.

Legend has mellowed so much over the years. "Sorry this video is of no help to you, Normal Difficulty players." A few years ago he would have said something along the lines of "It's not my fault you're all trash, if you don't like it go cry in a corner, I don't need you" or something.

I use Bone Giants as bait, hide some units in the woods near one, and when the enemy comes in to get it, flank them. I do the same thing with cygors and beast-men and they do it better.

stalkers are quite good at taking down large units really quickly with the ranged attack

Have you considered tiering all the Regiments of Renown? You could maybe split it into two separate videos covering old world and new world races.