Best unit size to play in?

[Count D'Cinamon]

I'd like to know what you guys think the best unit size to play with is. i know some of you would say ultra, but i kinda can't help to feel like looking at a bunch of blobby mass is kinda ugly. But i also know that some unit size setting throw the balance off for some faction and could cause issue. Any thoughts?

[Garatgh Deloi]

The game is balanced for large unit sizes.

Personally i find ultra unit sizes "fun".

[Count D'Cinamon]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

The game is balanced for large unit sizes.

Personally i find ultra unit sizes "fun".

i see, good to know

[8-The-General-8]

lol... come on...

I stick to large usually. Even if rig can handle 'Ultra'.


The problem is SKaven factions etc., they just have huge number on a battlefield. I played maybe 12-15k the other evening and ... yeah.

I think this is why CA introduced the custom battle lab thing. They needed feedback on what different machines could handle.

[A.Pot]

I would recommend medium. The size is not too large to be a burden on your pc while feeling similar enough to Large.

If you do Small though, it certainly changes things can make the game more fast paced and intense.

[Ronald McDonald Trumpet]

since i bought WH1 back in 2017 i don't think ive played it on anything other than ultra... so i can only recommend you do the same

[zefyris]

Large. It's by far the one that feels the best. Game is balanced for that, too. lower count makes the map looks too empty.

[Stormcrow]

Magic is balanced for large unit sizes and does not scale as far as I know. No problem for buffs and curses, but direct damage spells will have different impact. So unit size ultra means magic is a bit weaker on the battlefield, since the same amount of damage is done to units with more health. In return, playing with medium sized units means direct damage spells are more dangerous.

Another thing to consider is tactics. The ballte maps of Total War Warhammer are smaller than they used to be in Rome II and Attila. Bigger unit sizes makes it harder to flank or play guerilia tactics, since a full stack of units sized ultra stretches over mayor parts of the battlefield, giving you less space to maneuver.

Additional,biger unit sizes require a better rig to run smoothly. CPU, GPU, RAM...

I personally play mostly with large unit sizes, since it is a middle ground of the things mentioned above.

[bearfieldlee]

Medium gives you a reasonable size and isn't too demanding on performance. I read somewhere though that spells are a bit OP at this setting.

[mweilbuchner]

any issues you might run into performance-wise with ultra unit size can be compensated by using FXAA in stead of other filters / lower shadow quality / lowered texture quality, etc.

so i'd say: go for ultra!

[gg]

ultra

[Hurricane]

Large is balanced but cav suck in large... ultra is more fun but mass enemy stacks are hard to deal with specially skaven slaves.... once you go ultra you cant go back to large it plays totally different. Some units in ultra are just amazing compared to large.

And by cav suck in large i mean even more so than ultra... in ultra they can actually survive a volley of arrows

[Ogami]

Only played on ULTRA so far. Feels right to me.

[Red Bat]

Lower unit sizes leads to a very unbalanced game.

[Witski]

Originally posted by Red Bat Media:

Lower unit sizes leads to a very unbalanced game.

especially when using single entity monster or monsters in general,they do the same damage but take way less from the enemy..so in my opinion ultra size is the most balanced of them all

[Yellowdragon]

Ultra makes missile op, and aoe-dps magic weaker.
Because everyone in a unit shoot at the same time, while melee units only fight at the front row.
Melee units will have more chance to get melt by missiles before they come to contact.