Armor: Everything you need to know

This is testing out content for new players with some information to help out veterans too! If this does well, I'll be making more vids on other stats.

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[jacobscott]

I love short form content that you make! It manages to be exceedingly in depth, while leaving out anything superfluous.; just absolutely *chef kiss* beautiful

[unowno]

Armor is so insane that not having an AP units in a matchup against armored units is incredibly hard to win
Khorne warriors are insanely effective soley because of their low cost and high armor
Dwarves are the same but dont do damage

[frankmc]

OMG I never knew those AP damage percentages were so consistent! It annoyed me SO much to have to look in the damage popup to figure out the proportions!

[prisregil]

My Valkia campaign has ended with my chosen at rank 7+ having 162 armor during battles, , , And 4 chosen DW and 4 chosen with shield practically ignore everything that has come against them, , , Alith Anar had some fun with when my chosen DW caught a few archer units. Khorne was happy with them that turn.

[Captaintrippz]

Exactly why I adore Frontline infantry with 100 armor. Low armor 20% physical resist troops always feel terribly squishy when that 20% becomes 27 armor against zombies and whatnot.

[NitrosBG]

Great Video! There's a few incorrect values at 0:55 but it's pretty minor.

The most important thing that is not mentioned though is that the value of adding more armor goes up with higher and higher armor values due to how percentages work.

For example:

Adding 10 armor to a 0 armor unit increases percent reduction from 0%->7.5%, in turn cutting damage taken from 100%->92.5%, a 7.5% reduction.

Adding 10 armor to a 90 armor unit increases percent reduction from 67.5%->75%, cutting damage taken from 32.5%->25%, a whopping 23% reduction in damage taken!

[jackcogswell]

Ent casually assuming we can multiply percentages in our head. Love the optimism there, but I'm still bringing the dread saurian so clearly I can't do math.

[molochicken]

Finally! Tournaments players know all of this but most people could not see their discussions/thought process and noraml players actually can only guess what unit is cost effective by eye test. Hopefully everyone can now understand how much preparation is needed for all matchups to master a race.

[khamulthewack]

I am so glad I came across this video. I'm a casual player, but having this information now easily accessible now is going to super helpful in my games.

[SpiceCh]

So basically steam tanks and bastilodons only take armor piercing damage most of the time, and additional armor value past 200 becomes redundant.

There's also the fact that damage resistance stacks with armor, reducing the armor piercing damage that would make it through, making your units that much tougher.

[sovietunion]

this is one of the reasons that dark elves are one of my favorite factions because so many of their units get high armorpiercing and plenty of buffs to armor piercing damage. their archers not only come with a shield to help their survivability, but do pretty decent AP damage for their low cost. also dark elves having access to black arcs is fun

[brianlevor]

I enjoy these in depth tours of the mechanics. Please bring us the numbers behind the final boss of all TWW calculations: AUTO RESOLVE. Sigmar commands it!

[RMZ]

You forgot to mention that now Ghost units are 100% AP, but great video nonetheless!

[chack]

The Virgin Armor Denier vs The Chad Armor Enjoyer

[sanguineaurora]

So, if you pick Gelt, and buff Steam tanks with every Armor available, they will literally be unkillable by Slaanesh's Chaos Warriors...
PERFECT.

[RoronoaZoroSensei]

I knew about the armor calculation being ~75% of the armor stat, but I never actally thought about comparing it to the effectiveness of shields.
Also I had no idea about the standard 10% / 25% / 75% ap to base damage ratio, I thought they'd be much more diverse so I never bothered thinking about it much more.
I enjoy your streams and memes a lot, but your informational videos have always been my favourite. They're the reason I subscribed, and the reason I stay!

[AliothAncalagon]

I started doubting armor when I had to hide the hammerers Throgrimm starts with from some goblin archers from the first battle back in WH1.
But I came to think that the notorious paper armor effect of the hammerers is due to formation.
Dwarves are simply super tightly packed which will make less shots miss compared to loosely positioned Saurus for example.

[Longtimer]

i think i got a dwarf lord to 280 armor or something, slapped rune of spite and regen and healing pot on him and sent him in to solo armies

[jaywerner]

I can't tell you how INFORMATIVE and HELPFUL this video is. About time someone explained this!

[ryanjones]

Thanks for this Enticity. There's been some real misinformation on armor lately! People took an opinion to a hyperbolic extreme and decided armor was crap.

It can do a lot for you!