Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Equipment Guide: Best Equipment Ranked

Q: How many factions are there?

Fourteen. Ten standard factions of seven units each cover Tribal, Farmer, Medieval, Ancient, Viking, Dynasty, Renaissance, Pirate, Spooky and Wild West, and four more are unlockable: Legacy with 16 units, Secret with 39, plus Good and Evil which are reached through portals.

Q: Can units from different factions be mixed?

Yes, and it is usually the right call. Nothing rewards a pure faction army, so the standard approach is to buy the cheapest adequate front line from whichever faction sells it, then spend the rest on ranged units from another.

Q: Why does the same army win one battle and lose the next?

Because nothing is scripted. Every wobbler is an active ragdoll, so balance, momentum and collision resolve slightly differently each run. If an army loses narrowly, replay it before redesigning it.

Q: What is the cheapest way to beat a giant unit?

Numbers or a Ballista. Twenty 50 gold Halflings will drag down a 2,200 gold Mammoth by attacking from angles it cannot swing at, and a single 900 gold Ballista handles a large slow target from range. Buying a bigger giant of your own is the expensive answer.

Q: Is there multiplayer?

Yes, online player versus player alongside the campaigns and sandbox. There are also creators for units, maps, factions, campaigns and battles, and Steam Workshop support, so custom armies show up in both sandbox and multiplayer matches.

Complete Totally Accurate Battle Simulator equipment guide. Every equipment option ranked with stats, best builds, and how to get them.

EarlyGuides Editorial Team

Researched and editorially reviewed. Updated August 12, 2026.

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator is Landfall's physics battle game, released in full on 1 April 2021 after two years in Early Access. You spend a gold budget on wobblers from 14 factions, place them on a battlefield, and then hand the whole thing over to an active ragdoll simulation that decides the outcome. A Halfling costs 50 gold and a Da Vinci Tank costs 4,000, and the interesting question is almost never which unit is better but which unit is better per gold against the army already sitting on the other side of the field.

Your choice of equipment defines your damage output and playstyle. This guide ranks every major option, explains what makes each one strong, and tells you which builds they pair best with.

Equipment Rankings

Equipment	Tier	Best For	Notes
Halfling	S	Swarm armies, and padding out any formation that has gold left over.	The cheapest unit in the game at 50 gold, from the Farmer faction.
Hoplite	A	Anchoring a formation so ranged units at the back get their firing time.	An Ancient melee unit at 180 gold with a shield and spear.
Musketeer	A	Mid budget ranged support against the 650 gold Knight and similarly expensive melee.	A Renaissance ranged unit at 250 gold.
Ballista	B	Levels where the enemy has paid for one titan instead of many bodies.	An Ancient siege unit at 900 gold that fires a heavy bolt down a flat line.
Da Vinci Tank	B	Open maps against melee-only armies, and for possession when a level needs manual steering.	The most expensive standard unit at 4,000 gold, from the Renaissance faction.

S-Tier: Halfling

The cheapest unit in the game at 50 gold, from the Farmer faction. Individually useless, and the reason most tight budget campaign levels are solvable at all, because twenty bodies beat one expensive one at surrounding a target.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	S
Best For	Swarm armies, and padding out any formation that has gold left over.
Key Mechanic	Gold budget placement
Recommended Build	Tribal

How to get it: Available from mid-game onward. See our walkthrough for the exact progression point.

Best builds using Halfling: Pairs naturally with Tribal thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

A-Tier: Hoplite

An Ancient melee unit at 180 gold with a shield and spear. It holds a line against cheap infantry without needing support, which makes it the standard front rank behind which everything else is placed.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	A
Best For	Anchoring a formation so ranged units at the back get their firing time.
Key Mechanic	Active ragdoll physics
Recommended Build	Farmer

How to get it: Accessible in the early-to-mid game. Check our maps guide for the location.

Best builds using Hoplite: Pairs naturally with Farmer thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

A-Tier: Musketeer

A Renaissance ranged unit at 250 gold. Slow to reload but hits hard enough to matter against armoured targets, and it works best in a line where reload gaps overlap rather than stack.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	A
Best For	Mid budget ranged support against the 650 gold Knight and similarly expensive melee.
Key Mechanic	Faction unlocks and campaigns
Recommended Build	Ancient

How to get it: Accessible in the early-to-mid game. Check our maps guide for the location.

Best builds using Musketeer: Pairs naturally with Ancient thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

B-Tier: Ballista

An Ancient siege unit at 900 gold that fires a heavy bolt down a flat line. It is the standard answer to a single expensive target, since the 2,000 gold Zeus and the 4,000 gold Da Vinci Tank both present a large body and no evasion.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	B
Best For	Levels where the enemy has paid for one titan instead of many bodies.
Key Mechanic	Unit possession
Recommended Build	Dynasty

How to get it: Found in later areas. Our walkthrough covers when you can access this.

Best builds using Ballista: Pairs naturally with Dynasty thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

B-Tier: Da Vinci Tank

The most expensive standard unit at 4,000 gold, from the Renaissance faction. It flattens infantry and takes an enormous amount of damage, but it is exactly the target that Ballistas and swarms are priced to answer.

Attribute	Detail
Tier	B
Best For	Open maps against melee-only armies, and for possession when a level needs manual steering.
Key Mechanic	Unit Creator and Workshop
Recommended Build	Renaissance

How to get it: Found in later areas. Our walkthrough covers when you can access this.

Best builds using Da Vinci Tank: Pairs naturally with Renaissance thanks to how their stat scaling lines up.

Equipment Progression Path

The order you should acquire equipment as you progress:

Starting gear → Enough to clear The Introduction
Hoplite → Your first real upgrade, available early
Musketeer → Mid-game upgrade with good scaling
Halfling → Best-in-slot, aim for this by late game
Upgrade to max → The power spike from max upgrades is enormous

Equipment Tips

Always upgrade your primary equipment before diversifying. One strong option beats three mediocre ones.
Match your equipment to your build's stat priorities for maximum scaling.
Look at the enemy army before you spend a single gold coin. Every campaign level shows the opposing placement up front, so buying a 900 gold Ballista against twenty cheap infantry wastes the entire budget on the wrong answer.
Check our tier list for how equipment rankings affect overall build effectiveness.

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