Post your favorite unit from all categories!

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 11-10-2004, 05:01

Just post your favorite unit and the faction in these categories; Heavy infantry, pikemen, light infantry, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, skirmishers, bowmen, cavalry archers, heavy cavalry archers, siege, strange unit (war dogs, incendiary pigs, screeching women and the like.)

P.S. We all know that Cataphract Elephants are the best elephants! Cataphract=armoured

Mine are Urban Cohort or Arcani because Urbans are awesome and Arcani are cool and very good (Rome), Spartan Hoplites (Greek City States), dont have a light infantry favorite, Greek Cavalry (Greeks), Companion Cavalry (Greeks) though they have less armour than Cataphracts I prefer great charge! Mercenary peltasts easy to find and found almost everywhere. I don't have one because I have not played a cavalry archer faction. I may be wrong but I think Cataphract Archers are the only ones please correct me if I am wrong. Siege tower or repeating ballistas, because siege towers can be used as them if used properly! War dogs I love to have infantry or cavalry fighting a unit and then have them have to cntend with twice as many opponents as crazed dogs assault them!

**lars573** · 11-10-2004, 05:25

Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin

Cataphract=armoured

Specifically, cataphract=mail clad

roman first cohorts
spartan hoplites
seleucid silver shield phalanxes
pharaohs guardsmen

**sapi** · 11-10-2004, 08:36

Urban Cohort
Spartan Hopelites
Cretian Archers

**WiredOnCoffee** · 11-10-2004, 09:31

Pigs.... Sorry, I just chuckled for a while the first time I used them. Got them as a gift from the Senate. Whats more fun then lighting your livestock on fire and send them at the enemy. LOL... now that is psychological warfare, its not like you can reason with them, bribe them or scare them off at this point... they are ON FIRE. Thats just too funny.

**bmolsson** · 11-10-2004, 09:46

Never found any use for the pigs. They burn to fast.... Really like the Pretorians, since they got some guts....

**Rosacrux redux** · 11-10-2004, 10:04

Being a phalanx fan, I prefer the Spartan hoplites and silver shield pikemen. I also dig the Cretan Archers (awesome range, ROF and lethality) for best support unit for phalanx, and the kataphracts or companions for best finish-them-off cavalry.

**WiredOnCoffee** · 11-10-2004, 12:44

Originally Posted by bmolsson

Never found any use for the pigs. They burn to fast.... Really like the Pretorians, since they got some guts....

I know... and I agree. I seem to get them from the Senate alot though. I just thought it was funny the first time I seen them. And yeah, Pretorians and Pretorian Cavalry are awsome.