Guild War - Explained. Everything you need to know + Gameplay!

Watch as I go over everything you need to know about the newest gamemode that comes to Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus. Attacking, Defending, Gameplay and Rewards - your one-stop guide is here!
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00:00 Start
00:03 Introduction
00:32 What is Guild War?
00:53 Defending
03:35 Attacking
05:58 Battlefield Info
06:33 Rarity Cap
07:00 War Shop
07:19 Conclusions
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[@MrsNandi40k]

I don't play this game and now I even understand Guild Wars

[@seanhutt4621]

Your a gem ❤❤

[@TacticusGame]

You should play! If you need advice, I know a guy you could talk to...

[@MrsNandi40k]

@@TacticusGame 😂

[@mrgrassblock9005]

⁠​⁠@@TacticusGamemr Tacticus how do you get a legendary besides drops cause I’m very unlucky

[@server1ok]

​@@mrgrassblock9005u grind them up in the mass attack pve mode

[@bluemilkalienmonster522]

Please do a “Best Characters for Guild Wars” video

[@ForgottenSaber2367]

I hope the rate of currency accumulation makes this a worthwhile way to farm character shards.

[@mcbraide]

Of course😂

[@kappricek]

I expect that devs change rewards... Youll get 3 uncommon orbs, 2 rare xp books, 200 salvage, and 4x incius shard for fully tryharding entire war - classic reward... 🙈😂😂😂😂🤌

[@user-nk9oy7ny2d]

They released info, based on the info in the explainer you can expect on a win to earn like 2-3 shards for a character per war, give or take. (They said shards would be about 180 per and a win gives you between 400-600 currency.)

[@gregminister1986]

Agree - having a bonus applied for bringing a mono faction to offset the benefit of cherry picking the stronger hero’s would be great!

[@ygazz]

or maybe have buidings/battlefields that benefits/harms one particular faction?

[@caucheka]

the problem with this is that not all factions have full roster, and that not all factions mesh together equally

[@sigbjrnhjelmbrekke122]

I would say this game mode probably incentivises mono factions. When you need to bring 25 instead of 5, you may as well benefit from existing faction buffs when you put your team together.

[@TheCheffer76]

I set my lineups in that manner just for the faction boosts

[@SheedRanko777]

Faction bonus would be best possible thing!!!

[@R22RJMacready]

Having bonus for the same faction would be great, yes! :)

[@mehal2]

I'd be real happy if Rotbone is a regular presence in the shop. Rotbone is so useful in LREs but is completely unfarmable

[@glumechang]

Can’t wait for the war shop! Rotbone Rotbone Rotbone!!!

[@Nandi40k]

👀

[@adc1222]

I've been playing since a week after release and STILL don't have Rotbone. I'm praying for him right now

[@mrgrassblock9005]

@@adc1222what’s that

[@Heavenknight_Infinite]

@@mrgrassblock9005 death guard healer and reviver

[@tamaskarsai2072]

Well so far it looks like arena with added effects. Ai defending the bases means, that 1 attack can easily defeat a position. Maybe here having diamond 3 characters defend can do most of the work.

[@sigbjrnhjelmbrekke122]

The important difference from arena is on the strategic level of how to use the guild. And that looks extremely challenging! The various buffs to defenders, not least the +60% health, means the attacking teams need to be stronger than the defending teams.

[@carlosmateosjimenez]

Nice video Nandi, I think is massive that they put Rotbone on the guild war shop

[@nighthawksw]

Thank you! Great as always. Only disappointment is... No Legend Tomes. There's never enough, and all shops should include them IMO. XP gating is heavy. Love the rotbone inclusion, and glad for another source to farm legend items to D2-3...but I need units at D2 to really appreciate that feature...

[@Nandi40k]

The Devs have replied and said that exp books will be there! I just didn't have it in my shop screenshot.

[@Samueljohnhorne1984]

Thanks Nandi. I’ve been wondering about all this, and you’ve explained it well 😊

[@joshuahodgson3655]

I know what im listening to on the way home from work tomorrow.

[@TheCelticBear7]

This mode looks like it'll be a lot of fun! Strongly agree with you that a bonus for same-faction teams would be great - maybe a partial bonus for same alliance and a full version for the same faction?

[@ericpaulsen6981]

It would also incentivize rounding them out. Problem I'm having though is resource starvation; want to play with all the cool new things, but we've had resources taken away (bring back legendary books in battle pass and 3 legendary orbs on the 10xdrop pod please!) and there are WAY to many characters to feed with the amount of resources we currently get. I have entire factions that are barely upgraded at all because I feel like I can't afford to lose focus on my main characters

[@sigbjrnhjelmbrekke122]

@@ericpaulsen6981I have four mechanicus and three nids still at stone. I appreciate this, though. It makes for greater variation in opponents you face, and the team compositions within the guild. Noone can possibly have it all, and that is a good thing!

[@Yumao420]

​@@sigbjrnhjelmbrekke122I have a policy to get all characters at least at Rare Bronze 1. I've been suffering lately with that

[@Tianzi38]

Best way to incentivize using entire factions in GW would be introducing GW-specific faction buffs. For example, certain factions might have bonuses when attacking or defending certain building types. As an example, perhaps Orks, literally chomping at the bit to charge into battle, would deal bonus damage + increased crit rate to Frontline buildings (only). Or bonuses for certain factions when attacking another faction. Or do it like Marvel Strike Force: introduce GW-specific *individual* character buffs that are only effective in GW which would incentivize pure faction (or more creative) team building for GW. The second option would be more work for Snoworint but allow greater variety / flexibility.

[@andreasstenback1235]

Thanks for a great intro for Guild War! Fullt agree that it would be great to have an incentive to bring fill faction lists, like an extra reward. Nothing game changing but a small ”push in that direction”.

[@ashermeireles9215]

Great video as always 🤙🏻

[@al4474]

I wonder if guild wars could borrow from the existing LRE framework whereby using characters with certain specific traits confers battlefield combat bonuses, and then these traits can be combined with combat bonuses conferred by specific traits also stacking as a result if 5-man character teams meet multipe traits. These bonsues would apply to both defenders and attackers equally. This would add a very deep strategic layer to guild wars, which is why most of us play Tacticus!

[@LayronPK]

At first it looks overwhelming... The sheer amount of guild planning on defense gives me a headache

[@user-sh9sx2xs8o]

Thank you Nandi. Explains guild war mechanics well. Like that Rotbone is a reward since he is important to LREs and unfarmable. Having LRE core characters is a great way to incentivize participation. Would like this to be permanent. As a 3 month player who still hasn’t requisitioned a single Isabella shard, it would be great to have an opportunity at Isabella before the 3rd Ragnar event. also okay if devs prefer her in a different mode such as guild shop. I know others who are Rotbone and Isabella less like me feel the same.

[@BobTheTrueCactus]

Thanks for the valuable content. Great to see this new mode.

[@SamwellFuqua]

Thanks for the walkthrough. Interesting that a guild could full clear opponent twice. I’m hoping Guild Wars doesn’t exhaust folks that aren’t able to commit as much time each day. Seems like the timeframes might be manageable though.

[@abellyofanarmy]

A big big thank you! And yes! When you can guild wars dirty ones + strategies?

[@chubmonkey2808]

A fog of war would add difficulty, make it harder for the opponent to target specific lanes first; sight could be similar to source buff AoE

[@christopheratkins8443]

Isabella as the Elite Battle Pass. SO MANY players regret passing on her initial offer.

[@vanr3977]

for the devs. a cool idea would be having faction based terrain you can choose at the start of the war. for example a tau terrain could do a single railgun attack that does percantage damage to the highest hp charachter

[@Ethrigan1312]

Great and informative video 😊 thanks 🖖

[@malloc7108]

I'm excited to hear your thoughts on tactics and why the best character is still Celestine (as in all pvp modes).

[@WarbossWAAAGHHHH]

Your Epic Nandi Keep it up!!!!

[@seanhutt4621]

This looks really cool and I'm very hopeful it will play as awesome as it looks ❤❤❤ Keep being awesome Nandi and I'll keep watching -puntyer

[@arrownymouse1811]

Getting very gold and xp gated at the moment so im happy to see xp book rewards

[@johnnydoyle4562]

Like already said below a fraction bonus for taking characters from the same fraction would be sweet an give another dynamic to the game. Also, a 6th character for each fraction would give heaps of combo options.

[@simonmasset2238]

They actually announced 6th characters are coming, first one would be a 6th Tyranid actually

[@justjoshinya755]

I would love to see a tier between epic and legendary, as diamond 1 to diamond 3 is a big jump. Maybe like level 44 diamond 1 cap

[@maddencooke809]

Faction bonus would be great to see and many being able to control larger armies in this game mode if that’s not to much to ask?

[@badgerking800]

I would love to be able to pick the AI units to defend myself with. Like Tyranids or Eldar or Orks. Or Even being able to pick bases that work for units in your building like Tyranids have ripper spawn points or Eldar having healing spaces.

[@shaynemartin1916]

Would be nice to have a lower level. I've been playing daily for over 6 months, I am level 36 and I cannot max out an epic slot with 5 gold characters. But I'm the strongest in my guild. Half my guild will struggle to field 1 team of Bronze 1's. Looks like it'll be loads of fun, but we are going to get stomped in a 1 sided massacre fairly often. We have 30 members, 27 are currently active daily.

[@porkshank9]

Faction bonus sounds pretty fun to me.

[@GTAjedi]

Hype!

[@MechShield]

This looks like it will be an AMAZING addition... I wish Vox-Station and Supply Depot gave buffs to the guild's attackers or something though. A couple questions I think I missed... Does a row have to get completely cleared? Or could someone just charge right down a column? How much freedom do you have in shuffling the building positions?

[@memyselfandi5454]

Shards are great but I was hoping this mode would fix the orb drought.

[@Brutus-2099]

I would love faction bonuses or effects!

[@conorslater8295]

Buzzing for this, it's been a long time coming. Re faction bonus that should be a thing that impacts all elements of the game. At the moment there is not much incentive to bring a matching roster.

[@Nandi40k]

Totally agree!

[@vaclavkubis5924]

@Nandi. An overview on What chars against what building in their effectiveness would be great. And what about the artillery? Is it 9hits or 9x1 hit? That is a huge problem in Arena, and frustrating if it goes straight to Guild wars, that Camouflage, Tall grass and Big target have no effect against 1 hit attacks.

[@Nandi40k]

Based on the text it is a 3 hit salvo for each instance of artillery position

[@murphydaveelte]

Thanks for the explanation - looking forwards to this. Does the Vox station have any special ability or is it just worth more points?

[@Nandi40k]

Just more points

[@Not.alpharius]

One thing I would really love to see is that we can be able to replay onslaught levels I mean if I get a character that is only obtainable through pulls for example roswitha I must farm her but let's say my imperial team is on the 30th section she will eventually die and left a space in the team to be filled with a random unit So, why not instead have the opportunity to replay those past levels and getting the amount that is supposed to give (lower levels lower the rewards) just saying cuz as a f2p is starting to get hard going through onslaught:/

[@ryanshea7007]

I would like the responsibility of forming your defense shared with officers as a guild leader. I feel guilty being the only one in control.

[@TheHolyHjort]

Thanks i real need to watch this vidio

[@Heavenknight_Infinite]

my guild playing level 1 and it is very hard. i meant, we don't have a lots of unit. sooo... from my understanding what i can see. most of black templar does melee combat. if it is possible for one solo character with first strike can wipe em out? im not sure if i should worry about imperium guard shooting since champion black templar will chase em and the rest who got close to him are dead

[@xkxxxx]

Please do a meta guide! Also do you choose what guild to fight?

[@Nandi40k]

It should be random via matchmaking!

[@NoName-Huuman]

More Guild Wars content when you’re ready please.

[@rauljulianriverarodriguez7359]

I have a question for you,Nandi, if I attack one enemy position with my current team set up. When I finish the attack that team will no longer be available throughout the guild war. I speak from my experience playing Marvel strike force a few years ago. That had same mechanics.

[@Nandi40k]

Yes, each character can only be used once to attack every war

[@rauljulianriverarodriguez7359]

@@Nandi40kwelp, This is gonna be interesting. I’m gonna buy a ridiculous amount of ulf shards because I have 100 legendary orbs( I am not joking)🙃

[@rauljulianriverarodriguez7359]

Oh I here’s another question, if I destroy the headquarters from the enemy team, everything falls apart or just gets more points?

[@Nandi40k]

@@rauljulianriverarodriguez7359 just more points!

[@AlexKingsley-Smith]

I'm concerned about HRE points with the reduction of arena tokens. Will guild wars reward HRE points or are we all going to lose out on HRE points?

[@Nick-ei6em]

How do we adjust teams into different areas? Our team just placed people randomly as we had nooo idea what was going on. Now we want to place our best people in the correct areas... however we have nooooo idea how to do this amd our teams are placed seriously bad, with all our best dudes on the front line 🤷‍♂️

[@pazekobloodthirster2256]

I just want an economoc balance of the game to be able to progress faster and catch up with all these new hero release events. Be friendly in giving currencies. Having to farm and grind books xp and materials took way too long.

[@myrical4147]

Do we know if the character shards are fixed like in the normal guild shop to Ulf, Rotbone, and Maugan Ra? Or will they alternate. IK, kinda a dumb question because the normal shop just removed Maugan Ra to be in this (assumed) pool of shards, but just curious. :D Great video as always Nandi!

[@Nandi40k]

I don’t want to commit on an answer here because they might still change the shop rewards! Sorry!

[@thenathanimal2909]

I would recommend making a video of a mock battle where sectors are attacked. I've watched this video twice and still don't understand the flow of a war.

[@Nandi40k]

It's hard to do on the test server because there are so few of us!

[@Samsara__]

Mate a full faction bonus should be added really anyway to all modes. If you have 5 of the same faction give them some sort of super synergy.

[@sigbjrnhjelmbrekke122]

I am afraid this can easily be overdone. So much so that it forces mono factions, and there is too little room for creativity in line-up compositions.

[@Dahkeus3]

Appreciate the video, but I’m still confused AF. My guild couldn’t even try them on previous rounds because you need 20 players over level 29 or something? Idk, but it’s frustrating and disappointing to not even be able to try it.

[@danielcassidy1487]

Maybe i am an idiot but i am just wondering can one player deploy to more than one zone. As in could a Player deploy 3 teams of 5 in one location and 2 teams of 5 to another location or even more. or is it that once a player selects a location they are locked there they can only deploy their 25 units there.

[@Nandi40k]

No - one player can only deploy in one zone

[@filipdragobratovic5626]

I still don't understand why are some char are on rank Iron 3 and mine who where on epic upgrade are on iron rank 1 even if I put rank iron 2 is moved to rank iron 1

[@alekseyn467]

Thanks for the video! Suppose, there is war between 28-player and 30-player guilds. Does it mean that the first guild will have 20 less tickets to attack, so will have much less chance to win? If this is correct then it doesn't look fair. Will there be guilds matching based on players count?

[@alekseyn467]

Also, if players count is used for guilds matching then I hope there will be an option to switch on/off participation in guild wars as player may need a break or may not have enough time sometimes.

[@Nandi40k]

I don’t know how matchmaking will work yet! Yes the guild with fewer players would have fewer attack tickets as I understand it

[@jordanlane1958]

Is it right that you can only use each character once? How does this work? Would you need 50 characters to use all 10 tickets or is it only once per map?

[@Nandi40k]

You can fight battles with 1 character if you’re feeling confident. 50 characters if you want 10x 5 man teams

[@fernandomeseguer5934]

There is something I'm not sure I am getting. Defence teams have a given rarity, and they are downscaled as needed. The question is, do attacking works the same? When attacking a rare-defended position, are your attackers downscaled to rare too? Or you can attack with a legendary diamond 3 calgar and hope to single clear?

[@Nandi40k]

Yes attacking teams get downscaled to the same rarity you’re fighting against

[@fernandomeseguer5934]

Ok thanks for clearing that up!

[@konosuba350]

Should also include Books & Badges in the GW Shop

[@simonmoon6344]

This! the xp scarcity is the most annoying thing in this game

[@Nandi40k]

I think that books at least will be in the shop!

[@computercrack]

Thx for explaining. So you have 25 Chars to use for def and you can only use those 25 Chars to attack right? If you have 10 attack token though, you can only attack 5 times with the full team, meaning you would only be able to attack 10 times with teams of less then 5. let's say 5 times with 2 Chars and 5 times with 3 Chars. Correct?

[@Nandi40k]

25 to defend and anyone you want to attack (including the ones on defense). Each character can be used once on defense and once on offense

[@jonysatou18]

Let’s go

[@highroller6244]

Let us purchase tomes in the Shop!

[@WhoDatNation7]

Make it easier to level characters snowprint.

[@vaclavkubis5924]

Another question. Arena tickets go slower and can keep more, but do I still need 95 wins/season to open up chest? And how often will guild wars occur? The exhaustion of active players and punishment of a guild with players that aren’t 100% active is a real danger.

[@Nandi40k]

Guild wars will occur over 2 weeks every battle pass season

[@izongaming1782]

Can you explain what the multiplier piece does?

[@Nandi40k]

I'm not sure I understand this question

[@izongaming1782]

@@Nandi40kAt the top of the Battlefield page at 6:03 there is a Reward window, a multiplier window, and a #Guilds window. I'm wondering what exactly the multiplier applies to.

[@Nandi40k]

Ah ! I think maybe rewards multiplier?

[@someonesomeone2166]

Character shards for rewards us boring. I would love exp books and badges as well. I woukd extremely love if i coukd get legendary items like medallion resolute or sanctified weapon oils as well.

[@kota4550]

In a single GW season, do you fight the same guild six times or do you fight six different guilds?

[@Nandi40k]

I’m not sure how matchmaking works yet! I would think that it is different guilds!

[@Nobody_1.]

do you happen to play a game called path of exile?

[@miamivice4607]

Sorry did you say we need 10 teams? Can we use def teams in offense?

[@Nandi40k]

yes, a character can be used for both def and offense - but only once on each mode. (ie. can only defend once and attack once)

[@miamivice4607]

@@Nandi40kwow so we need 50 characters, wide rosters come in clutch here!

[@Nandi40k]

@@miamivice4607 not necessarily! Remember you can attack with less than 5 characters as shown with the aun shi gameplay example in the video

[@marcocuevas621]

You will need 5 diamond 3 😮

[@adammotter]

I'm just worried this will turn into other games where guild war just turns into a bunch of redundant meta defenses and everyone's setting up the same meta teams...

[@tomekmachnicki6584]

First of all a great video. Second thing. I like the idea of GW but all this sounds like a very heavy time investment especially from GM and vice GMs.

[@FANTAZTHEPHANTOM]

WOW

[@LocoBanana33]

Looking for a new guild now. I feel mine will not do well. Level 40. Droll20 any guild captains looking?

[@kerching8855]

Lost legion 😁

[@LocoBanana33]

@@kerching8855 what's your guild tag. There are a few lost legions. Is min power 35? And you guys are position 513 on current season?

[@kerching8855]

@@LocoBanana33 sorry dude I forgot to check back. Yes thats the right guild. FNKCN

[@mikko3808]

Sounds like a rehash of the Marvel Strike Force Guild War feature with bonus rooms etc etc

[@falsebeliever8079]

Poor Aun'shi

[@Littlef00t]

Where is the XP books? Nothing to buy...

[@stefanradu-hq7wb]

rotbone!!!! I want rotbone . The only Char I still need.

[@-AceItX-]

The opening UI looks ugly if I'm being honest, just generic sand and basic scrolling? Needs more flare in my opinion

[@MultiKuruc]

Looks promissing, I just hope Tacticus wont devolve to SWGOH

[@myrical4147]

Fr. I have hope they won't!

[@utkuakyuz8798]

don't take it as complaning, it isa good update but before making such an effort to bring this game mode wouldn't it be better to bring friendly matches and make available plyaing against your friends or who ever you want? personally i would prefer playing against nandi rather than his guild.

[@meinfreundfranz]

Worst game mode ever. It‘s complete a55. They developed it for over 6 months and then they come up with such a waste of time… upgrade and downgrade of your Champions is unclear, in game chat for only communication tool is insane!!!!, rules are not balanced (WTF 60% HP bonus for defending Team… hey that‘s fun…) and so on. Getting wrecked with your team even tho having double the might is just insane game design. Applaus. What a fun way of playing tacticus… I‘ll never ever participate in this mode again. Never! Hope my guild is not kicking me out but I am not supporting this BS a55 mode again. What a waste of time and hype.