Following on from our Forces of Fantasy and Ravening Hordes unit performance posts, I thought it may be interesting to take a deep dive into each faction at 2,000 point events. All of these results are taken from competitive 2k events that included Legacy factions and a minimum of 10 players.

Firstly, from what we can see, most of the forces are constructed using the army composition list inside the Forces of Fantasy book rather than the Kingdom of Bretonnia: Arcane Journal.

The Kingdom of Bretonnia is perfectly balanced externally at 52%

It’ll be no surprise that many of these units are mandatory according to the Forces of Fantasy composition list.

The least popular units are mostly those from the Arcane Journal, with the exception of the Damsel, Squires, Foot Knights, and Sergeant-At-Arms.

The above shows the win rates for units with more than 20 game results. With an overall win rate of 52% for the Kingdom of Bretonnia, the only units currently exceeding this are the Knights Errant, the Duke and the Paladin.

In terms of popularity of the knightly virtues, the Virtue of Heroism (Killing Blow and Monster Slayer special rules- Excellent against what appears to be a Dragon dominated game at present) and the Virtue of Knightly Temper (extra D3 attacks and Hatred) are by far the most popular in lists.

There’s a more even distribution among the Bretonnians magic items. However, Gauntlet of the Duel (challenges can’tbe refused), Gromril Great Helm (improve armour save by +1 and reroll natural 1s on armour saves), and the Falcon Horn of Fredemund (cancel fly on enemy units) lead the way.

We’ve only included factions where there are more than 10 matches on record. While this is still low data, the trend shows a poor performance against Orc and Goblin Tribes and Tomb Kings of Khemri. While appearing to perform well against Wood Elf Realms.

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