Wat Are All Of Your Favourite Units!?

[Pharnakes]

Ha'Abbirim Ha'Qdosim Se'l Astarte

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Otherwise known as sacred band cavalry, if your foolish enough not to play eb.

Such a cool name though, no?

[warking]

wo is this thread still going?

thats incredible.

[Caerfanan]

wo is this thread still going?

thats incredible.

Well, you did ask for 60 pages, right?

[mac_augustus]

Hail to All! I hope I'm not to late to add my thoughts to this prestige thread! I have played RTW and Barb Inv with several factions and I have come to this conclusion - For infantry I have to give it up for Legionary cohorts, They take orders well - don't rush unless told and won't break as easlily as others. For Calvalry again it has to be the Romans again. I played as the Secludes and when you use their cavalry it is a whole new world. I use cav to outflank my enemy, charge from behind and send them to Hades gate, ha ha! But with the Secludes they exhaust all their arrows before charging. I'm not saying it's wrong but it's an entirely new way of fighting - it took some getting used to I'll tell you! I have to say it's really neat to try other units in battle. You gain more respect for your enemies, you learn new tactics for all the units you encounter and finally not very often its nice to have somebody hand you your butt on a plate once in a while. GODSPEED! Veni, vidi, vici.

[doombringer]

Roman Pila infantry!
very fun to use, and can use them very effectively in cities, by testudo then undoing so they are closer knit, then lining them all up together and putting fire @ will and hold ground on- very hard to break

[phoenixemperor]

Companion Cavalry from RTW vanilla, Principes from RTR (the workhorse of my Roman legions) and the Varangians from M2TW.

[King Jan III Sobieski]

I vote for Polish Retainers; of course, over all, I vote for anything calvary in nature. Artillery helps too...

[Gimli]

FAVORITRE UNIT?!?!?! That is a tough question to answer! Ummm..... In the normal MTW VI, I would have to say that I like the Varangian Guard... They can take and give out such a pounding! In the MTW XL mod, I would have to say that I like Klibanophoroi (a heavily armored Byzantine ranged cavalry with a mace as their melee weapon!) and the naptha catapult... (BOOM!!!) Yet to play RTW or M2TW... *sigh*

[Rotc_Railey15]

Favorite infantry units:
1. Spartan Hoplites-Toughest soldiers in the game! (Especially trained at foundries and panthieons.)
2. Silver Sheild Pikemen-121 troops, cant beat that!
3. Principes-Easy to get early in game and effective.

Cavalry:
1. Cataphracts-Armored, thats enough said.
2. War Elephants-expensive, but worth it.
3. Roman cavalry-not expensive easy to obtain after Gaius Marius!

[RickFGS]

1 - Sacred Band Infantry
2 - Sacred Band Cavalry
3 - Armoured Elephants
4 - Archer Auxilia
5 - Cretan Archers
6 - Spanish Mercenaries/Scutarii
7 - First Cohorts
and so on

[Crimison]

Hmm...

1. Spartan Hoplites
2. Sacred Calvary
3. Highland Nobles (Claymores for the win.)

[Milovan]

From M2TW: Serbian Knights & Serbian Hussars, Norse Axemen, Galloglaich

From RTW, RTR mod: Keusanan Wrakjoz and those berserkers, I think they were Austa Sachsaz, I can't remember.

Hope I got the spelling right...

[warking]

awesome, too awesome try and reach 10 pages!

[seireikhaan]

MTW XL: Korean skirmishers, Mongol Horse Archers, Mongol Warriors, Clibinaphoroi(sp?), and Lithuanian infantry

[Xehh II]

I hyave a new favorite, they are from XL, they are Kataphraktoi archers Cillibreni are something.

[seign_thelas]

STW: Mongol Light Cavalry
MTW: Mongol Horse Archers
RTW: Scythian Noble Horse Archers
M2TW: Teutonic Knights

[Tristrem]

My favorites are as follows

MTW- tukomann (sp) archers, and teutonic sargeants
RTW- the EB units- persian archer spearmen, and their arabian counterparts.
M2TW- polish nobles, and the Katanks (old reference)

oops, almost forgot the camels that are in all three games

[KukriKhan]

spam
sorry

ignore this post please.

[agamegold]

Ok now everybody lets not have fights about who's best lets just tell each other wat their favourite unit is and why?

easy


OK SO START BRINGING THEM ALL IN!

[ainamacil]

In MTW, Gallowglasses.

So far in M2TW, gunpowder artillery.

[Bijo]

STW -- those archers.
RTW -- those long-range mercenary slingers.
M2TW -- longbowmen.


Heh heh. I always prefer good missile units in my armies to deal fatal blows.

[mac_augustus]

Hail! I must admit that I'm totaly amazed at the love for missile units. I salute your patience!! I fail in that department I fear. Let's get to the thick of it and resolve the issue. Maybe I'm not utilizing my missile units to their tactical prime?
He who hesitates is lost!

[Robin From Da Hood]

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[Galapagos]

I love Missile Units.I use them all the time,and they saved me in more than one occasions.

[King Jan III Sobieski]

I know I already posted here, but I'd like to add a unit to my preivous picks: Swiss Pikemen; they're tough little buggers.

[warking]

keep going only 2 or 1 more pages to go!

[Charge]

Chosen Axeman! especially in my mod
Some cover by archers and cavalry and... MOCHI KOZLOV!!!

[Caius]

I like some mercenaries too. They are useful.
Like:
Thracian Mercenaries
Balearic Slingers
Cretan Archers
and at least, but very important, the Mercenary War Elephants!

[Motep]

My old Myrmidons and Skeleton warriors. (mod units) Ah...good times...