Favorite troop type

**Parallel Pain** · 05-07-2008, 00:41

The cheapest horse archer with a lance. You can conquer the world with nothing but these (though you can't keep the world, that's the job of skirmishers).

**penguinking** · 05-07-2008, 01:24

Slingers. You can't go wrong with hordes of slingers pelting the enemy.

**fenix3279** · 05-07-2008, 01:27

Originally Posted by penguinking

Slingers. You can't go wrong with hordes of slingers pelting the enemy.

....until they're close enough to hit back, anyway.

**Kromulan** · 05-07-2008, 01:45

Ahh, many excellent replies!
I saw someone mentioned the arabian light infantry. . . I had forgotten about them. Excellent skirmishers and one possible leg of my Saba anti-(Baktrian) cataphract triangle. . . I used them as bait for the cats so my Indian guildsmen could swarm without having to endure a charge! They hold up remarkably well in melee with the cats. Don't do any damage, but they don't die nearly as quickly as most other units I tried that with. . .
Love the Saba bodyguards as well. I had several battles with grey/yellow death where the bodyguards were the only units that didn't rout. Fun stuff!

I see many folks like the Gallic elites. For some reason, I just can't get into the Gallic factions (not even in vanilla).

I'll have to give it another shot.

Welcome to the forum Mecha.

**Minister of Fear** · 05-07-2008, 05:07

Having played the following factions (Pontus, Hayasdan, Baktria, and now Epeiros) I'd say:
Skirmishes: Thrakian Peltasts (but I'm looking forward to trying out the Agrianian Assault Inf soon)
Archers: Bosphoran heavy archers (Scythian Foot Archers are very good value)
Hoplite/ Phalangite: Hellenic Medium Phalanx of whatever type
Shock infantry: Elite Thracian Infantry (but I'm looking forward to getting Scordisci Elite Infantry soon)
Missile Cav: any horse archer is great (you just give them as much exp. as you can and they cut up inf. stacks one turn and retreat and then you attack with your inf. & heavy cav or you just cut them to pieces again with your cav. stack the next turn.)
Med. cav: Baktrian Med Cav (horse archer varieties of med cav are excellent too)
Heavy Cav: Kinsmen Cav. Power at a modest price.

**Hooahguy** · 05-07-2008, 05:19

my favorite- heavy infantry.... unless when theyre being pelted by arrows or rocks....

**Eyes330** · 05-07-2008, 16:42

Well I've only played seriously with Casse, a tiny bit of Makedon(in 1.0), and Saba (in 1.1) so I have little or no experience with cavalry, but here's what I have

Missile: Arab Slingers/Archer-Spearmen - They proved essential to conquer arab rebel towns. Specifically to take out those pesky Sabean nobles, before my infantry rush in.

Light Infantry- Red Sea Light Infantry(Technically H. Inf on the battlefield

)- What's not to love about guys with battleaxes charging into a load of missile units (or any units for that matter)

Heavy Infantry- Milnaht. Couldn't have taken Germany without these guys. A very good all-round unit.

Cavalry- Makedon Strategos - Won a lot of tight battles with these.

**Elmetiacos** · 05-07-2008, 18:03

Subeshi archers. Put them on a hill, shoot the enemy, withdraw from the battle, rinse and repeat.

**socal_infidel** · 05-07-2008, 18:08

Parthian Horse Archers and Parthian Early Bodyguard. Conquered up to Mesopotamia with just them back in 1.0.

And I'll always have a soft-spot for Scythian Horse-Archers back from my 1.0 Hayasdan campaign. Heroic victory after heroic victory using them and the Armenian Early Bodyguards against the Grey Death.

I'm half-tempted to pick up a unit or two of them as mercs in my current Mak campaign. But they'll look out of place in my planned Egyptian invasion.