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    One of the Undutchables Member The Stranger's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lonewarrior
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    urbans definately
    the most cracky of all crack troops they look cool fight well and inspire fellows would'nt it be cool if someone modded it so they chanted as the marched with each footstep "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE GLORY TO ROME DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE GLORY TO ROME" or something like that
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    i voted spartans. they look cool(if you download the official skin) and fight hard and never run away :)
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    Spartans are my favorite infantry unit, next to Urbans. They can just hold back thopusands of enemies even when their formation is broken! Try using them with a no walls city v. desert infantry armies, max out the Spartans and only use 320 of them (4 units). You will probably fall in the end, but you hold out a really long time and kill way too many of them!
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    I was very partial to the Spanish Bull Warriors in 1.1.

    But that was with the Primary weapon bug and so unbeknownst to me at first they had an attack stat of 17!

    Add to that their bonus from warcry, aswell as the usual barbarian forest or wood bonus and they were incredible units on the attack as well as the defence.

    Double hitpoints, Good stamina, fast and with a 17+ attack from their javelins they were awesome to use in battle, they were certainly the strongest Barbarian foot unit, and as barbarians could access them a lot sooner then the two concerned civilised factions could access Spartans and Urban Cohorts Bull Warriors for much of the game were the strongest infantry units of all.

    I'll re-evaluate my opinion of them once I've had a chance to play 1.2 for a while.~)

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    odd Arkejae but i notice no votes for bull warriors? with what unit do your loyalties truly lie?
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    Im the lonely vote for the longshields :) Im a bugger for cheap though nummerous cavalry. Make an anvil of Poeni infantry, and let the cavalry run 'round. They've got enough power to deal with any enemy cavalry, and are cheap enough to expand without worries.
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    Quote Originally Posted by master of the puppets
    odd Arkejae but i notice no votes for bull warriors? with what unit do your loyalties truly lie?
    i think you must have 100+replys to vote because i cant!
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    Quote Originally Posted by master of the puppets
    odd Arkejae but i notice no votes for bull warriors? with what unit do your loyalties truly lie?

    Odd but I notice in my last post my saying that I was partial to Bull warriors (past tense), and that I intended to re-evaluate them in the 1.2 version when I've played it for a while.

    No wait ...actually thats not odd, you just didn't read my post properly.

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    Onagers! The repeating balista's are pretty good too. In a full strength army I usually include 2 units of onagers and 1 RB (if roman).
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    Hmm....

    The Macedonian Light Lancers have to be one of my top favourites, they crack most things with a superb charge, but you have to pull them out again at once because they have absolutely NO staying power...

    Slingers, and particularly Rhodian slingers of course, are also on my top list, they really decimate most opposition, though they can't them if you have your own troops in front, but as long as you're careful they're superb. I have a REAL for fighting against them tho, I usually think twice before attacking a force including the Rhodians, as they ALWAYS decimate me! And it's usually against greeks, and the AI puts them in front of the hoplites, so I can't effectively charge them off with my cavalry either...

    And gotta love the elephants when they charge a close group of infantry, just for the animation when people fling through the air

    Horse archers of any type has been my all time favourite ever since I tried the Turks in MTW, they're just lovely!
    I haven't got v1.2 to work on my computer yet tho, and I heard they were altered a bit, and quite a few were whining...from what I heard, they can't fire when running away from the enemy(and possibly at the enemy too), but they can fire when walking and in the cantabrian circle formation, which I believe is a good thing. Someone complained about them being useless because in skirmish mode they can't fire when they're running away from the enemy, but I can't really understand why people complain, use the cantabrian circle!
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    If you want to get technical Spartans should probably have the highest stats in the game, never route and have the multiple hitpoints like they do. They were the best, it is hard to get a soldier to outskill someone who has been trained since childhood to kill. Hell even their art and music was for purely military reasons, keep time while marching and such. They are not as good as they would be in reality though. 300 v half a million or so persians proves it...
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    Definately the phalanx pikemen.. They're such lovely wide utility units :)
    And phalances are lovely, especially with the new patch :)
    Crusades... They should stay medieval.

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    I gotta go with the spartan hoplites

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    Anybody here vote for a unit just because it looks cool?

    If I did not like Companions so much I would vote for Arcani or Berserkers....
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    Default Re: Favorite unit!

    Quote Originally Posted by Deeppack
    I gotta go with the spartan hoplites
    go fellow spartan

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