Favourite Mercenaries Poll

[seienchin]

Still only 3 Votes for the Balroae... Does nobody ever seriously fight in britain??
These guys are the best Mercs ever

[Maion Maroneios]

Does nobody ever seriously fight in britain??

Nope, way too far from the Mesogeios for me.

Maion

[Zim]

By the time I reach them it would take too long to ship them anywhere I could really use them. I do hire them when I can when I'm first conquering Britain.

Still only 3 Votes for the Balroae... Does nobody ever seriously fight in britain??
These guys are the best Mercs ever

Surprised to see the Cretans winning by so much, but they are the only decent archers in the west... I just always use slingers myself.

[Kromulan]

Hmm. . . some surprises, some blatantly obvious. . .
My votes:
Thracian peltasts
Persian archer-spearmen
Rhaetian axemen

I only voted for 3 because the Cretan archers (#3 for me) are just blowing everything else away already and I didn't see Ethiopian swordsmen on there.

I'm a bit surprised the Thracians aren't more popular. I hire them as Getai even though I can recruit them in my cities. The Rhaetians aren't the most powerful or widely available, I just think they're kewl.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Had to vote Cretans at 1. Way too good of an archer unit to not make it. These guys seriously change battles by themselves.

Thrakian Peltasts at 2. Not battle changing per se but instead can perform any role i ask. Assault, defense, anti-infantry, anti-cavalry. Always try to pick a few up when I'm around Greece.

Classical Hoplites at 3. Very boring heavy infantry unit but so many times, I hire mercs for city battles where I don't want to use my factional units which might need to be transported back a ways to retrain, in street battles where flanking is not an option. Though Hoplites tire quickly, they excel at frontal assaults in street battles.

Special notice to Persian Archer-Spearmen for helping me win the East, Galatian Swortswordsmen for being that quick flanking unit as well as phalanx killer that i need around Greece, and Theuropheroi playing a role similar to Hoplites, little more flexible but not the great street pusher that Hoplites are.