Battle Legion vs Warhammer 40,000
Choose Battle Legion for a more engaging gameplay experience despite its monetization issues.
Battle Legion generally offers a more enjoyable gameplay experience compared to Warhammer 40,000, despite both apps facing criticism for aggressive monetization strategies. Users of Battle Legion appreciate its strategic elements and auto-play feature, while Warhammer 40,000 users often express frustration over its mechanics and monetization practices.
Head to head
you enjoy strategy games and can tolerate some monetization issues.
you prefer a game with a Warhammer theme and are willing to navigate through its complexities.
Evidence note: Both apps have free tiers, but Battle Legion's users seem to have a slightly more favorable view overall despite complaints about monetization. Warhammer 40,000 users are more consistently negative about their experiences, particularly regarding costs and support.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R5] Battle Legion My type of game: If you like strategy games this is a game for you or if you like to lets say there is a enemy team that is just to strong for you but what if you use characters with abilities that can affect them so that they cannot use move or slow them down or cause them to fear with that is an ability in this game and they will run away causing me to have the upper hand in the battle and then
- [R11] Battle Legion Used to be a better game: I’ve been playing this game almost since it was made and the original developers, before they sold it to godspeed, had everything pretty locked down and perfect. Godspeed took over and started implementing all these unnecessary changes and additions and it’s definitely not as fun to play anymore. Still a fun game and one of the only games like it though.
- [R97] Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer is great. Tacticus is not.: To be perfectly clear - I am a true Warhammer 40k enjoyer. I own 4 armies (Grey Knights, Deathwatch, Adeptus Custodes and Space marines), play different games on my PC including DOW and SM2. When I first peek at the Tacticus - I was hyped. Like you getting your fav setting right in your phone. And then…ugh well…the reality check. You are getting pretty much “B
- [R108] Warhammer 40,000 Not a Warhammer 40k Game: Your typical mobile game with in app purchases with the skin of Warhammer 40k. Game does not feel like a Warhammer game though. It’s missing its darkness and grim nature we normally expect.
- [R10] Battle Legion Good game but: Game is fun honestly alot of fun. But once I unlocked pvp the dumb tutorial forces you to click it then make you click your army in the bottom left corner. Then the game freezes I’ve uninstalled and reinstall and same thing happens so the game is just unplayable once you unlock pvp? I don’t even want to play pvp but since they force you too and the game is bugged I can’t progress pa
- [R40] Battle Legion Tutorial: The tutorial is kind of ridiculous for multiple reasons but I’ll give just 3. For one it makes me take out my strongest archer unit rather than one that’s level one and I can’t change it. Reason 2, after the 3rd battle I had a pretty good idea of everything and yet it’s still dragging on and it’s making kind of upset I can’t play the game I downloaded and there’s no option to exit tutori
- [R65] Warhammer 40,000 Crashing Game: Great game, I still rank it a 4… but for months now no matter the updates I do the game crashes after about 10 mins of playing. I’m no tech master, my luck it’s my own iPad fault but it’s my main game and I still try my best to play daily but the crashing is frustrating.
- [R81] Warhammer 40,000 Great game, but…: Game is great, only issue is that it occasionally has (no internet connection) which is an error on their part, as I am able to connect to multiple internet sources meaning the issue is not on my part. The issue is now progressing, I have taken multiple screen shots of (no internet) which is clearly making the game not playable, I have indeed made purchases so it’s frustrating
- [R21] Battle Legion El juego: me pase horas jugándolo, y de repente cuando fui a volver a entrar no me carga, carga hasta el 8% y me dice que no se pudo conectar al servidor, y bueno para un juego que me gusto bastante, me decepciona eso, ya que el internet no es el problema y reinicie el móvil por si era algo de él y nada, sigue sin cargar
- [R84] Warhammer 40,000 iPad: Not sure if anyone else has this problem,but this game constantly crashes
- [R4] Battle Legion Pay to win let down: Cool game. Locked behind money annoyances. You simply can’t progress without spending real money. No thanks.
- [R22] Battle Legion $$$$: Vicious pay to win like everything else. As long as you pay 10$ for the Witcher in the beginning of the game you don’t need another cards. No point in really trying to progress.
- [R82] Warhammer 40,000 Money grab: It’s not a bad fame for what it is but it’s a constant money grab. Everything costs money and you are basically strangled by the pay wall.
- [R88] Warhammer 40,000 Atrocious cash grab: Everything is behind a time gate. You want good characters? They’re locked behind events, further barred by atrocious drop rates for materials to upgrade your existing characters you need to use to unlock the ones you actually want. You have to grind missions for said materials, but wait, you can’t! It’s all locked behind a slowly recharging resource and time gated missions un
- [R20] Battle Legion Need of fixes: For starters, my season pass that I had purchased no longer is functional so that’s the thing I hope that is resolved and part of the reason why I’m doing this review the other is that I am in a guild and I have lots of shorts that are on nonfunctional to myself and I would like to give them to my brother, but I am heavily limited in the aspect of me being able to give him shards an
- [R70] Warhammer 40,000 Bogus purchases.: The game itself is great and loads of fun. However, when I make a purchase I get charged for the purchase and then some other purchase I never made. If I made a purchase for $7.99 I would get charged the 7.99 and also 39.99 or some other larger amount. I had to contact Apple to get refunds. This has happened about 6 times. So if you make a purchase keep a very close eye on how mu
- [R96] Warhammer 40,000 Great game, frequent crashes: Great game! Very addictive, however game frequently crashes resulting in lost tokens, energy ect. You can raise a ticket of which they have claimed to respond to all. However my previous three tickets I’ve had no response.
- [R1] Battle Legion Opens Browser Regularly & MTX Everywhere: App keeps opening the web browser to access random websites before opening the store during ad views. Ads they partner with will sometimes automatically do this, even if the phone is not touched. Shoves 5-10 ads in your face every launch which several dozen MTX in the shop among the worst value I've ever seen in a MTX store (regularly 6.99 for a minor pow
- [R61] Warhammer 40,000 Garbage: I don’t know where these people got the idea of what turned based game is because this game isn’t good at all. Got to the first boss battle and lost due to game not knowing how a sniper works and enemies being too spongy. Warhammer deserves better than this and I wouldn’t support this trash. Avoid if you want a good turn based game.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store