Command An Army Unit Tier List (Update 1, September 2026)

A game that launched September 5, 2026, one major update in, and the search results are already full of confident S-to-C rankings — several grading units that don’t even appear in the game’s official announcements. This page does the opposite of that: it grades every officially documented Command An Army unit, shows the evidence behind each placement, and openly marks what isn’t gradeable yet. You may leave with fewer letters than the competitor lists give you — but every letter here survives a “says who?”

How this list is built

Three evidence levels, shown on every row. They map to the methodology published before any rankings existed:

• ✓ Consensus — community ranking signal from multiple independent sources, agreeing
• ◐ Analysis — in-house role analysis from the guide pages, no match data yet
• ✎ Watching — officially announced but unverified in matches; no tier claimed

The game shipped September 5, 2026; Update 1 (five new units) landed September 12, 2026 (patch notes). That calendar is why most rows below are ✎ — and why that’s the honest state of the art.

Graded units

Why isn’t anything S? Because our S bar is “warps the match when fielded, answered by itself” with repeated match-level results — evidence that does not exist this early after a September 5, 2026 launch. An S printed today would be a guess wearing a font.

Update 1 arrivals — watching, not graded

All five shipped September 12, 2026. Officially known facts only; verdicts attach as match evidence lands:

The per-unit breakdown with planning logic lives on the Update 1 units page.

Class tiers — the role layer

While unit verdicts accumulate, the class framework from the launch guides holds as the reliable ranking layer — it’s built from the game’s own class design, not match speculation:

Read the two tables together: class tier tells you the role to secure; unit tier tells you which unit fills it once evidence exists.

What would change this list?

Every placement moves on evidence, dated, per the methodology: a balance patch, a documented stat table, or accumulated match observations. The likeliest near-term movers: any Update 1 unit crossing its evidence bar, any UPDATE 2 arrival once its stats publish, and the Mercenary line upgrading to A the moment its Ascension pace is measured. When the next patch ships, this page re-ranks within days — check the date at the top.

Dated note (September 14): the September 13 balance patch is the first documented mover — it lessened range across the entire Archer lineage plus Flaming Archers and the Crossbow, sped up the Spearman/Pikeman line, and reworked the Javelineer’s shield interactions (full detail on the patch page). Ranged placements carry a watch flag until post-patch matches accumulate; this is exactly the re-rank trigger the methodology promised.

Dated note (September 19): UPDATE 2 (“Guilds and more!”) went live — new units Rapier and Rapier Knight with the Parry trait (Rapiers only), Spearman/Pikeman squads raised 24 → 28, and the game’s first earnings cuts (gems and troop Mastery XP −30%) — fully reverted the same day, so the economy standings are unchanged (patch history). The Rapier pair joins the watch list the moment a star rating or stat card is documented; the Spears flag above gains the +4 squad count as another driver. No graded placement moves until match evidence accumulates.

Dated note (September 21): the second balance patch landed with the Rapier pair’s first official stat lines — Rapier/Rapier Knight ATK INT 1.1 → 0.9 and Rapier Knight’s Parry buffed 20% → 30% (patch history) — plus Spartan BlockDurability 110 → 100, knockback reductions for player classes (Hammer 10 unchanged, Sword & Shield 7, Assassin 4), ranged units removed from AI-driven support troops, and a fix for the infinite horse-stun combo. Still no star ratings, so the pair stays on the watch list — but with real numbers attached for the first time, and a buffed signature trait is exactly the kind of change the methodology says to re-test within days.

Dated note (October 11): the October 10 balance rode in with UPDATE 4 — “The Cosmetic Update” — and it touched three rows on this page. The Mercenary → Squire → Knight chain’s ceiling got its first official stat lines, all upward (Knight HP 247 → 255, DMG 20 → 21, Block 33 → 45) — the strongest evidence yet behind the B-trending-A grade. The Javelineer row’s anti-shield niche got numerically stronger (HP 160 → 185, DMG 24 → 28, RNG 140 → 170; the Elite stage’s first stat lines arrived with it: HP 215, DMG 33, RNG 190). And Spear Vanguard took the pass’s only nerf (HP 314 → 299, DMG 16 → 15), softening the promoted end of the second common-friendly chain. No graded placement moves on patch numbers alone — but all three lines are now re-test candidates (patch history).

Dated note (October 18): UPDATE 5 went live October 17 — two new player classes (Archer, Poleaxe: the commander’s kit, not units this list grades), the Crossbowman → Pavise Crossbowman evolution (the undocumented crossbow family’s first official structure — a watch-list fact, not a graded row), Sky View, an upgraded Ping Wheel, and a progression package (×2 Gems from matches, quests and rewards, cheaper Skill Tree skills, 1.3× troop mastery XP). No unit balance lines and no new units shipped — no graded placement moves, and the re-test queue is unchanged (patch history).

How to contribute a placement

Structured observations move units onto this list: unit and stage, matchup, what happened on the point (vocabulary in the upgrading guide). Send them through the contact page — the fastest placements come from observations you can repeat.

Sources

• Official Roblox event “UPDATE 1 ⚔️ — New Units!” (September 12, 2026) — roster, rarities, chains
• Official COMMAND AN ARMY Discord — #update-log, the UPDATE 2 post (September 19, 2026) — Rapier, Rapier Knight, the Parry trait, squad counts, earnings cuts
• Official COMMAND AN ARMY Discord — #update-log, the balance post (September 21, 2026) — Rapier/Rapier Knight ATK INT and Parry values, Spartan BlockDurability, knockback cuts, AI-support ranged removal
• Official COMMAND AN ARMY Discord — #update-log, the September 22, 2026 patch pair — “Mace now has knockback” (00:25) and “Removed mace knockback” (22:43): net zero to the standings, row corrected
• Community tier-list pages cross-checked September 13–14, 2026 (consensus column; their rosters notably do not match official announcements — graded only where names and roles overlap official facts)
• This site’s guide pages (analysis column, linked per row)