# 2021 troops in review **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [January 7, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681 "2022-01-07T14:45:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sls](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sls/32/66687_2.png) [@sls](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sls)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/1 "2022-01-07T14:45:47Z")
Ah, yes. Another year has passed, hurrah! Which 2021 troops have earned a permanent place in your teams? I do mean ‘permanent’, not ‘if it’s green-blue generator Beast-Elves from Whitehelm tower week and a leap year, I’ll be using that one for sure!’ * * * For me it’s: **01 Jan 21 - The Scourge of Honor** Decent alternative to Phoenicia, doesn’t require as much setup and is pretty solid at clearing the Adventure Board and Daily Dungeon tasks. * * * **05 Feb 21 - Ironhawk** Vault Event bread and butter troop if you’re going for keys. * * * **12 Feb 21 - Ogress** A useful bounty troop?? Also surprisingly solid on GW defense. * * * **05 Mar 21 - The Archdeva** Pretty niche, but has earned its place in one of my GW teams. * * * **15 Aug 21 - Leonis Tower** Even more niche. I’d never play this actively, but the tower’s one of the strongest options on defence in my opinion. * * * **22 Nov 21 - Centuragon** Out of all of 2021’s troops, I think Centuragon is the most fun. Zuul’Turagon is my favourite team at the moment. It even got me to farm E12 for a while. * * * Honorable mention: **18 Oct 21 - Baldr** Definitely a lot of potential here, but I feel like he’s a sleeper troop, still waiting for another troop to complement him. * * * I’m getting the release dates from GoWDB, I’m not sure if they’re always 100% accurate. > **My teams' other troops** > > ```auto > 28 Oct 14 Alchemist > 28 Oct 14 Crimson Bat > 08 Dec 15 Thrall > 28 Feb 16 Mercy > 08 Mar 16 Dust Devil > 08 May 16 Sacrificial Priest > 14 Aug 17 Forest Troll > 09 Oct 17 King Silenus > 02 Feb 18 Voice of Orpheus > 16 Feb 18 Yao Guai > 19 Feb 18 Divine Ishbaala > 20 Feb 18 Zuul'Goth > 11 May 18 Sister Superior > 02 Jul 18 Scurvy Seadog > 03 Aug 18 Arachnaean Weaver > 24 Aug 18 Wrath > 14 Sep 18 Grave Seer > 29 Oct 18 Gimlet Stormbrew > 02 Nov 18 The Possessed King > 17 Dec 18 Leprechaun > 11 Feb 19 Moon Rabbit > 11 Feb 19 Qilin > 07 Mar 19 Astral Spirit > 07 Mar 19 Apothecary > 07 Mar 19 Pharos-Ra > 07 Mar 19 Stonehammer > 17 May 19 Drowned Sailor > 17 May 19 The Maraji Queen > 03 Jun 19 Obsidius > 01 Jul 19 Daughter of Ice > 04 Jul 19 King Gobtruffle > 09 Sep 19 Lamashtu > 04 Oct 19 The Gray King > 14 Oct 19 Moonsinger > 13 Jan 20 First Mate Axelubber > 17 Feb 20 Malcandessa > 27 Mar 20 Queen Beetrix > 03 Apr 20 Mistralus > 13 Apr 20 Child of Summer > 05 Jun 20 Sycorax > 31 Oct 20 The Ghost Queen > 14 Dec 20 Herald of Damnation > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/2 "2022-01-07T14:50:15Z")
Good list, sadly not more troops out of the 100 or so that got released last year. ---
**Author:** ![mitamata](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mitamata/32/10313_2.png) [@mitamata](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mitamata)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/3 "2022-01-07T16:24:40Z")
> [@sls](#): > > 01 Jan 21 - The Scourge of Honor I use this guy with The Emperor for a nice stat boost 🙂 I also have a team with Archproxy Yvendra that I use occasionally when I’m in an explody mood 😅 Other than that, nothing notable. With over 1000 troops in the game already, that’s not surprising. For anyone else who wants to check out the list of 2021 troops: [Troop Table - Gems of War Database](https://gowdb.com/trooptable?sort=rarity&filter-releasedate=2021) ---
**Author:** ![Luceo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/luceo/32/57692_2.png) [@Luceo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Luceo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/4 "2022-01-07T16:41:20Z")
1- Centuragon 🥇 2- Scourge 🥈 3- Ironhawk 🥉 ---
**Author:** ![Wow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/wow/32/76075_2.png) [@Wow](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Wow)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/5 "2022-01-07T16:50:46Z")
1- Ironhawk 2- Ironhawk 3- Ironhawk My permanent team to farm verses in 2021. ---
**Author:** ![xolid99](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/xolid99/32/66856_2.png) [@xolid99](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/xolid99)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/6 "2022-01-07T17:21:50Z")
Thanks for the GoWdb link. I mutated it a bit and added some comments to the Mythics. [Yvendra](https://gowdb.com/troops/7082) Useful in skull teams, made unplayable, or at best risky by doomskull bugs. Released Broken [Astral Mother](https://gowdb.com/troops/7058) Not as useful as Astral Spirit, rendered more difficult to use due to heroic gems if not keeping turn. See Gray King. [Dao](https://gowdb.com/troops/6993) Used on GW defence, but in player hands, difficult to use. [Dark Smith Drenza](https://gowdb.com/troops/7134) Not crafted [Flaming Oni](https://gowdb.com/troops/7105) Just started some use of it with Phoenicia for vault clearing quickly (extra damage from all burn) Should do minor scatter damage. [Fountain of Stars](https://gowdb.com/troops/7068) May have potential, 15% bless should be at least 33% with the introduction of Elementalist. High mana cost, odd colour conversion. [Hatir & Skroll](https://gowdb.com/troops/7031) Nice troops with Impervious – see all Skrolls. Usable in GW, 3 colours. [Hatir Ascendant](https://gowdb.com/troops/7033) See above [Huanglong](https://gowdb.com/troops/7017) Potentially interesting troop - used it a fair bit with Venoxia and Dragonguard to scale Venoxia, which says enough really. Could be improved with more % chance to go again and bless more. [Ironhawk](https://gowdb.com/troops/6991) Bugged with submerge. Awesome for E1 with multiples. [Kalika](https://gowdb.com/troops/7095) Meh – hopeless. [Leonis Tower](https://gowdb.com/troops/6997) Good for Wars, can be buffed while others do their thing, but generally does not fit in with any kind of fast playing. [Mithrilion](https://gowdb.com/troops/7057) Hopeless, faced it in GW, it doesn’t work guys…Just an irritable troop for E12 slowing down play. [Quetzalma](https://gowdb.com/troops/6961) I like this troop, it can work with Shahbanu and co, but it is so prone to passing the turn even with 20 yellow on the board, that it’s not really viable anywhere except for a change of pace E12 with accelerators. Can work with twin empowereds but is still unreliable. [Skroll Reborn](https://gowdb.com/troops/7034) See above [The Archdeva](https://gowdb.com/troops/6992) 1 cast only, can be used with skull teams or quick fill [The Archduke](https://gowdb.com/troops/7016) Potential – but generally is too slow to be of value. Needs magic boosts, so the Star being yellow is a reasonable candidate. Does well in Delves. [The Scourge of Honor](https://gowdb.com/troops/6984) Decent troop, usable for farming teams. Curse is nice. Third trait is not too bad. [Tihamata](https://gowdb.com/troops/7106) Not enough damage, can work with destroy/exploders and Centuragon, but other troops do it better. [Ullor](https://gowdb.com/troops/7040) Decent troop on Def, kind of drags you into a new level of turgidness for offence, so better used on D. [Vernalis](https://gowdb.com/troops/7015) Can work with scaling Venoxia for example, plus the FF is useful. M/C/Marilith/Venoxia/Vernalis isn’t too bad. As for decent none mythic troops 1 Baldr 2 Centuragon 3 Tannenbaum Honourable mentions (if not uniquely useful, can be situationally) 2nd Claw Anhur Servant of the Dao Some of the Tarot cards Hall of Shame Willy the Anchor Wereverine Werebat Wererat and Co The Great Wyrm (for the 50% Dragon start removal) The Glutmaw, Gorbil and Drowned Sailor ‘Nailed on Fellowship of Shame’ Consort of Darkness - the new champion with it’s 100% AI slay rate… ---
**Author:** ![Kezef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Kezef](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kezef)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/7 "2022-01-07T19:01:34Z")
I like Baldr as part of an all-Blue/all-Giant team. And there are enough useful Blue Giants that it doesn’t feel like a chore to put together such a team with sub-optimal units. Mind you, I tend to use that team during Stormheim weeks. And maybe I’d use it during other weeks where Giants get the 10% benefit. But it’s reasonably quick and efficient for clearing Adventure Board and Daily Dungeon. But my not using it otherwise, including Guild Wars? It’s not because I find flaws with the Baldr team I’ve described above, but because I’m running a Blue Goblin team these days that I like. (Even though I’ve now swapped out Hero classes on it, from Thief to Elementalist.) ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/8 "2022-01-07T19:18:29Z")
Still stunned, less than 10 troops managed it to the list. That tells it all. You does simply not get a bigger wake up call than this. ---
**Author:** ![kamosloki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@kamosloki](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/kamosloki)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/9 "2022-01-07T22:11:38Z")
Flaming Oni I think should be on the list. I use it a lot with Fireblade class + Leprechaun to make very fast explore 12 team ---
**Author:** ![XLS78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b2d939/32.png) [@XLS78](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/XLS78)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/10 "2022-01-08T01:51:09Z")
Nobody else likes Bile Blackheart, but I enjoy using him quite a bit. Also, was Auspecia a 2021 troop? Not a big secret that I find her a lot of fun to use. ---
**Author:** ![sls](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sls/32/66687_2.png) [@sls](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sls)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/11 "2022-01-08T12:35:45Z")
> [@XLS78](#): > > Bile Blackheart, Auspecia They’re good troops, but I don’t see how they’d fit into teams for regular play outside of very specific events? ---
**Author:** ![XLS78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b2d939/32.png) [@XLS78](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/XLS78)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2022, 3:16pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/12 "2022-01-08T15:16:20Z")
I use this Auspecia team a lot for Explore 12. Might not be the very fastest, but it’s fun and satisfying. Can also use Sir Quentin Hadley instead of Yvendra, but then you don’t get _ **UBER DOOMSKULLS!!** _ 😆 [1257,6938,7082,6863,3062,2,2,3,2,3,1,1,14030] Whoops, here’s a BB team too, also good for E12 fun: [7120,6146,1375,7082,3063,3,2,1,3,1,3,3,14004] ---
**Author:** ![PowerPlay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/powerplay/32/3886_2.png) [@PowerPlay](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/PowerPlay)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/13 "2022-01-09T10:43:07Z")
soon it’ll be three! or only one! ---
**Author:** ![havok6669](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/havok6669/32/72792_2.png) [@havok6669](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/havok6669)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2022, 10:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/2021-troops-in-review/73681/14 "2022-01-09T10:52:53Z")
Especially if a whole bunch of players cry every time we get something actually useable like centuragon or the elementalist class. Some people just never want the meta to change I suppose.