Imperial Character Tier List: Warhammer 40k Tacticus

[@enzothebaker1181]

Despite the minor technical difficulties, it is obvious how much work you've invested and it is MUCH appreciated.. keep it up!

[@DZGJayce]

Thanks mate! I'm working to improve for all of you, and will continue to work on it!

[@Corusame]

This is essential information for anyone who's interested in Tacticus. Excellent job! 👍

[@DZGJayce]

That's a massive comment thanks mate!

[@savagepatty]

Man I want a Calgar. Slowly grinding him out but it’s gonna take like a year and a bit. My pull luck is shocking.

[@DZGJayce]

Well.... it is like a .75% chance :(

[@savagepatty]

@DZGJayce seems like that for most characters. I've unlocked almost everyone I have through daily tokens. The only two I have gotten by reqs are Abby and Hell. I usually save for the 10 pull but always end up with my 100% character being one of the ones I've unlocked so it drops into like 20 shards >.< I dono if my luck is just horrible or what, but most reqs end up just being a disappointment 😞

[@flyingcolorsd640]

thank you so much for this video, I'm very new to the game and this video gave me a big boost in info

[@scottandrouse3971]

Yoo..keep em coming dawg

[@DZGJayce]

Will do!

[@NemoNiake]

Hi, Very cool video ! Really those tier list are a must watch when you play the game ! :) Thank you for all the work

[@DZGJayce]

Glad you like it! I'm hoping the next one will be even better!

[@seraphsleeping1804]

Very informative video, I would recommend this for all new players, no major disagreements from me.

[@DZGJayce]

Thanks mate! I feel like no list like this can be perfect, but I tried :D

[@YngvarrTheMad]

"No need to beat the dead horse" 😂 I enjoyed the video mate. Keep at it. Sorry about software issues... I can recommend a decent techpriest perhaps. 😉

[@DZGJayce]

I'm in the market for new software lol

[@syraphian]

Hey jayce, i know youre workkng on that xenos tier list but if you dont mind giving your opinion a little early: i just unlocked anuphet in a req drop. In your opinion, do you think hes a good character to invest in? Im probably a mid level player, an upgrade or two away from hitting 200k total power. He looks good and is a summoner, but im not sure if my resources are better spent on the core 3 necrons

[@DZGJayce]

I think he's a good character yes, however I don't really think he's worth an investment. Outside of the campaign he doesn't have too many uses, and while he is a summoner, his summons don't have a crucial aspect: they don't attack on the turn they are summoned. The core 3 necrons (as I have shown/guided multiple players on the indom mirror campaign) are all you need to complete the campaign entirely (including elite) Aleph Null essentially carries the entire campaign on its own, and you just need to level mak/imo enough so they don't die. TL:DR: He's a good character, but he's not really needed anywhere.

[@gabrielangelos2557]

Awesome tier list, please give me xenos list! Cheers!

[@DZGJayce]

Next month!!

[@falsebeliever8079]

Tjark is pronounced with a sharp "Ch" sound like Chark or Tshark. The T is *Mostly* silent. This is assuming Fenrisian names are pronounced anything like Norwegian.

[@DZGJayce]

Interesting. I approached it the same as Bjorn (b yorn).

[@ArmContingencyCommander]

Do you think Certus has uses Late Game? I am thinking about taking him to Epic.

[@DZGJayce]

Aside from Indomitus campaign. No.

[@JONATHANWEEDEN-u9t]

Why do you say penultimate? You mean ultimate.

[@DZGJayce]

I have since learned I was misusing that word XD

[@Zabzim]

The whole roulette wheel thing just doesn’t work and labelling the time stamps as character one, two eta is just silly. Do them in alphabetical order of pete sake and give them the appropriate time stamps so I’m don’t have to watch the whole thing. You did it for your other tier lists

[@DZGJayce]

How doesn't it work? And this is my second tier list, that followed the formula of the first one? The point of the wheel was to add randomness so it doesn't follow a specific order (top to bottom or whatever have you) several people have said they enjoyed the randomness of it, and I'd rather cater to those that enjoy the content than someone who "doesn't want to watch the whole thing" I do appreciate the criticism though.

[@Zabzim]

@@DZGJayce well fair enough of your angle with the randomness. I just feel that the chapter time stamps should give the names of each character so people can focus on the ones they want to here about. I don’t care how powerful SoB are I will never their characters on principle

[@DZGJayce]

Fair enough I can get behind giving titles to the timestamps instead of "1, 2, 3" I was just copying the top 10 lists format of keeping the surprise of it

[@ahornamyen694]

Celestine weak? Sybille strong? And those black templars are not even after the patch strong. You will not see any of your top-tier chars in high level arena fights except Thadeus. What game are you playing?

[@percymacdonald6657]

Niche use for thoread is making yarricks guardsmen stick around in lre. Still a rubbish character although he let's you run up in pvp and park the bus.

[@deathstarsftw]

First haha

[@DZGJayce]

Beat me to even posting the links everywhere!! Cheers mate!

[@pppyyuu]

To witness you for an entire hour is a pleasure of its own. Thank you for good content, I've definetley learnt something new. Keep it up!

[@DZGJayce]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@thefrienemypodcast6073]

This series must take a ton of work, but it’s really appreciated. Keep putting out great content!

[@DZGJayce]

It's a bit sad when I make some technical oopsies (like Jaegar/Yarrick) but I enjoy it alot! And hope you all do as well!

[@emaPiotrun]

​@@DZGJayce who cares, best tier list explanation I've seen, waiting for xenos my man!

[@DZGJayce]

November!!!!!! The list is already being constructed :D

[@andreasstenback1235]

Great job! Finally someone does great and easy-to-follow tier lists for Tacticus :)

[@DZGJayce]

Thanks mate!

[@deaddogtony1677]

I still haven't got Yarrick and wish I just spent the £5, thanks for explaining Thadeous properly as well, every other channel just tells you he's incredible and you have to have him, they don't explain that you need Ra or Vindicta to get the most out of him, before I knew what I was doing I put loads into levelling him because another channel said he buffs Volk

[@DZGJayce]

He shouldn't have been brought out of the guild shop :(

[@faisalzainal9021]

I'm pretty sure when Kell is in play, Creed's active summons an additional guardsman (so a total of 3). This means that Creed can actually have 4 summons (when you include Kell). But I agree that he's either average or strong tiered 👍 Nice vid, dude

[@jshaydegaming3650]

He's one of 3 characters I don't own XD So I can't speak to that just yet.

[@Kumquat666]

Yes that’s right. A sneaky hidden bonus. I like him flavou-wise but would like a bit of a buff.

[@falsebeliever8079]

Creed should not feel like Yarriks sidekick. I feel like Creed should have Colour Sergeant Kell as an active, and his passive should be a large buffing aura of some kind or some kind of tactically advanced reinforcements ability. The Creed We have now feels like a regular company commander.

[@gamevision1155]

hello! as someone new to the game, (and newly subbed)how accurate is this list and the others you've made 2 months later ? thanks in advance!

[@ДмитрийКозак-л5л]

Haha all my favourites except one is weak or pass😅 Great guide tho

[@cbehen]

Azrael is one of the best arena and pvp character, put him 2 hexes away to Reva’s and calandis and bum arena is over. He increases Reva’s and calandis damage and block or any other overwatch character that’s why he is very hard to get same as maugan ra drop rates. He is my favourite character and I can’t replace him even with Celestine, ulf or sarquel. Also his active is insane so many times he saved me. I am glad people don’t use him in tournaments against me. He is not known.

[@DZGJayce]

He's very hard to get because he was a last minute character added to the game because of GW wanting him added for the Lion El Jonson news lol I wouldn't say one of the best. Revas has enough overwatch damage on its own and honestly I'd rather have Aethana in for the guaranteed crits and better damage increase for Calandis. Perhaps if he had range 4, or we get more Dark Angels :)

[@DZGJayce]

I think he's a cool character like I said. And I'm glad you like him! His active is one of the coolest in the game. He just needs a bit more.

[@deathstarsftw]

At 25:55 you said varro tigurius does physical damage with his active, i know you were meant to say psychic damage but just throwing it out there

[@DZGJayce]

I think I meant his melee attack

[@deathstarsftw]

you were talking about his active at the time. it is what it is just wanted to throw it out there sir, beautiful in depth video. 🥰@@DZGJayce

[@jshaydegaming3650]

Verbal typos for the loss, I was gonna review it and patch things up but my editing software kept dying on me :( Thank you though!!!@@deathstarsftw

[@deathstarsftw]

it's all good no judgment thought i might point it out before the hate spam starts xD.. used to be an editor. family life trumped it. @@jshaydegaming3650

[@DZGJayce]

I also misused the word penultimate XD Mistakes were made, I'm still learning!

[@PhuongHoang-xr3um]

wtf my ULF and Tjark should at Top Tier

[@jonathanhaynes9914]

Thought I watched this already. Oops.

[@georgeg9779]

I love your videos dude. But I think you severely underrate Jaeger. Hopefully the Black Templar rework will make them better as a whole.

[@DZGJayce]

His passive scaling is abysmal in its current state :(

[@MrTLeech]

With Yarrick and Isabella both top tier, and both in welcome offer, whos the better buy given we can only get one or the other?

[@DZGJayce]

I'd say Yarrick

[@heywoodyablom]

You forgot to rate Yarrick

[@angelotana3040]

Did u skip.yarrick?

[@Bunkerian]

Thank you Jayce. Love the new Yarrick execution

[@DZGJayce]

So satisfying to watch. Was a change I didn't know I wanted lol

[@emophodze]

brother jaegers passive is not only for one turn. I use him alot because when he duels someone, this character can't move, can't attack someone else and can't use an active ability. so you can basically lock the enemy char with the best active until either jaeger dies or he himself dies.

[@DZGJayce]

That was pre rework

[@emophodze]

@@DZGJayce ah ok didn't know he was reworked. how would you rank him now?

[@DZGJayce]

@@emophodze not entirely sure. I quit playing after the guild raids nerfs

[@emophodze]

Sorry to hear, thanks for the replies though

[@TheElderPETE]

You skipped over Brother Buchard as well.

[@DZGJayce]

Had me going crazy there for a second, I didn't skip him, just forgot his timestamp :(

[@DZGJayce]

Fixed btw :D

[@erikwarrior9478]

Did I miss something, or did Yarrick not get an in-depth review? He's not on the board when Sarquael gets his review, but he shows up when Sybill gets ranked. Otherwise, super helpful stuff, thank you!

[@DZGJayce]

Yeaaahhhhh something happens with the picture order, and instead of re-recording and editing (because my editing software keeps crashing) I just talk about him in the end instead and highlight his place and why he's there.

[@ViolentStillness]

Some valuable information especially for newcomers (Like myself!). Hope your editor is okay! Look forward to getting in on the next raffle!

[@DZGJayce]

I'd love to have ya compete!

[@sergehidalgo9184]

I know you're gonna not like this but... Incisus. Healers are worth their weight in gold in LRE's and Chracter Quests:)

[@DZGJayce]

I honestly thought about doing Isabella giveaway instead for this reason XD

[@Brashtastical]

Penultimate means second to last, thought you might want to know as you used the term a couple of times. Thanks for this video, enjoying quite a bit of your content.

[@DZGJayce]

Huh.... actually didn't know that. More you know!

[@georgesarch1423]

Dude you almost burned my mind with Yarrick! He just popped up there... LoL Anyway! Great job! Thank you so much

[@DZGJayce]

Sorry! Had a bit of a technical difficulty issue come up with that so I just did my best :(

[@OriginalTurgeis]

Hah, I wanted to see where Toth fit in on your list! Edit: I see you already have a Chaos list; I'll check that out!

[@DZGJayce]

He may need a bit of a re-evaluation with winged tyrant prime being a thing, and also some more ahriman testing for PvP. But not too great.

[@cyruslupercal9493]

Kut needs further damage on passive, like +200 for every square moved too and/or he needs a stun.

[@DZGJayce]

Yeah he needs SOMETHING additional on that passive.

[@r.j.macready]

Very sad for me a huge Dark Angels fan. I feel like the problem with Azrael is they already made Calagar too good and realistically they should have similar roles with similar power with different emphasis.

[@DZGJayce]

Yeah LOADS of people were upset with Azrael being an Epic character. I mean.... Adeptas Sororitas have two legendary characters why couldn't the DA?

[@r.j.macready]

@@DZGJayce I don't want to get too hopeful but... maybe the Lion?

[@DZGJayce]

Not certain, some people speculate it's Cypher

[@Carnagepwnz]

I'm fairly new to the game, but I will challenge your PASS mark on Incisus. I have him up to gold 1 with his abilities at 35 - 34 respectively. While only getting one hit is poor in Eldaryon multi hit buff team comps. His role isn't damage. It's parking him in the middle of your team and getting a round of enemy damage retconned. I often can heal through my enemies first round as if it didn't happen. Usually with them wasting some abilities in the process. If the enemies abilities don't overkill a champion then you often get 1 back. In arenas this results in reviving the first of your summons killed, which at least keeps AI focus on that summons and if they aren't hitting your champs you have a better chance of hitting them. But in tournament Arenas it means they focus him, and let me tell you, he's pretty tanky and can often take 2-3 champs worth of focus before going down, if not healing through it the next round. Then his pierce ratio actually makes his solo attack hit like a truck on enemy tanks. Is he the best champion, not nearly, but PASS. I've had him as part of my core team, soley for keeping my other champs up.

[@DZGJayce]

I have him on the absolute bottom of all 3 of my lineups. Glad you love him mate, but Isabella does his job WAY better.

[@Carnagepwnz]

I don't have Isabella unlocked though, she does seem better.

[@DZGJayce]

Then I can definitely understand a bit more love for Incisus. Although without her, I personally prefer to brute force everything instead of heal.

[@DZGJayce]

Give him Gravis!!!

[@seanmcinnis3765]

Straight up great video. Thanks for taking the time to make it!

[@DZGJayce]

It ain't perfect, next one will be even better promise!

[@jeff1664]

Good job Jayce. Very informative.

[@DZGJayce]

Thanks Jeff!

[@daniellavery5096]

Excellent cheers dude 🍻

[@DZGJayce]

Thanks mate!