Your favorite units? Tell us:

[Fisherking]

When it comes to infantry I love all the rifles, but my top land unit is light dragoons. They are just so very flexible.

At Sea I have to go with good old third rates. Thy just stand up and dish out. They are also the quickest to get anyplace on the campaign map.

[loony]

24-pounder foot artillery (shrapnel or canister anyone?)
mortars (big bad boom in the middle of an infantry square)
Line infantry (they die for you, gotta like them)
Fergusson riflemen (a bunch of puckle guns)
3-d rate (can both sink 1-rates and chase down sloops)

[Oaty]

Galleys. Great for initiating the battle, they'll tearup/sink the lead ship before your main line gets there. there so small that the biggest ships have trouble hitting them and 4 of them has over a 50 percent chance of sinking a heavy first rate. Considering their cost ratio they are well worth as having as support ships for the main fleet

[Oleander Ardens]

-Powhatan Warriors, numerous bowmen with nice stats and long range, rather cheap. Fighting with two lines is not a waste of manpower as they can shoot over each other at the shorter-ranged line infantry.


-Ferguson Riflemen, rapid-firing riflemen. Great for the pre-battle skirmish. Once the lines advance, they can be brought to the flanks and annihilate the enemy (with proper support).

- Grenzers, unit of light infantry with 80 range. Able to fire 2 musketballs per shot, these guys can outfire anything with a 70-80 range. In fact, they can almost replace line infantry. However, since they're rather weak in melee, it is best to have a couple units of line infantry to act as backup and cannon fodder.

- Howitzers, essentially a unit of shorter-ranged, mobile mortars. They can wreak havoc on the enemy and force them into an attack.

Windbuechse Jaeger are the better Ferguson Riflemen, but other than that we seem to agree. Light dragoons are a integral part of most of my forces, especially the Austrian ones. Ideal in combination with rifles.

[Dead Guy]

Line Infantry is of course the mainstay of any army, capable of dealing with anything and numerous, but oh so boring...

Mortars are my artillery of choice. Deployed correctly they can often reach the entire used portion of the battlefield. Sometimes you have to deploy them out of range of enemy cannon but I don't think I've ever had the enemy stay out of range. Therefore, I value them higher than howitzers.

Riflemen. The AI seems to be helpless against them especially when defending. It'll bunch up by some stone walls and you can surround it with long range accurate death. Their only weakness seems to be cavalry (even if you manage to get a volley off, there'll be cav left to charge your reloading regiment), they run away from pretty much anything else.

If only those light dragoons would reload properly I'd love them, as it is they're too much of a head ache.

[Alsatia]

Byzantine Infantry.
Extremely helpful when defending my cities.

Dismounted Chivalric Knights
Used well in offence, or backing up the lines

Adventurier
Brilliant when shooting from afar, also used as heavy inf. Particularly if you are worried if they will get smashed by cav.

Rocket Launchers
Nothing special (Except for decimating entire armies of elephants and advancing infantry). They just look cool when they fire.

Chivalric Knights/Knights of Edessa/Heavy Cavalry
Good for flanking and destroying enemy formations. Particularly helpful in a big infantry fight.

[Alsatia]

Oh dear, wrong thread and forum =(