Whats your favorite unit from MTW!
I start.My favorite is gothic knights.
Your favourite unit from MTW
Whats your favorite unit from MTW!
I start.My favorite is gothic knights.
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Cant pick just one... I have to break it into categories.
light infantry: Billmen
heavy infantry: Chivalric Foot Knights, followed closely by Janissary Heavies
missile infantry: Longbowmen
hybrid infantry: Janissary Infantry
light cavalry: Polish Retainers
heavy cavalry: Chivalric Knights
missile cavalry: Boyars
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
pavise arbalesters
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Spanish Jinnettes!
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Jinetes.
Feudal Foot Knights (dismounted Druszina(sp?))
Jannisaries (all 3 of them)
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
I have to go with Jinetes aswell, loved them heh
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Janissaries were lots of fun, slaughtered a massive Papal States crusade with a mostly janissary (heavy infantry and the infantry/archer hybrid) army once, lots of fun just smashing through their lines showering them with arrows and chasing them off the field and then meeting a wall of new reinforcements who were slaughtered.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Feudal Sergeants are pretty big for me. I think I made more of them than any other unit ever. They held the line in Europe AND Outremer. They're also the last spearmen to ever face a challenge, since by the time I could make Chivalric Sergeants, I was already unstopable.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Bonnachts, Gallowglasses, Almogavars and Boyars.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
For me it has got to be the Viking Huscarles. They were just as good as the VG's (with the armour requirement to build) and were available with only the second castle upgrade. I have fond memories of demoshiling anything before with with them and a few(maybe 8) knights. Playing as Danes I would build 3 every year so they could last all game and because of hem no matter what christian faction I played as my first goal was the conquest of scandinavia.
Man I loved those guys.
After them its very close fight with the Gothic Knights. Even beter playing as HRE and conquering Scandinavia early and haveing an army of 8 Huscarles and 8 Gothics. Goddamn talk about slaughter.
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
1. Kataphraktoi
2. Crusader knights (Teutons, Templars and Hospitallers)
3. Feudal Foot Knights
4. Varangian Guards
5. Pronoiai Allagion
6. Byzantine Infantry
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Janissary Heavy Infantry
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
In vanilla, it probably is boyars or gothic knights. Very tough.
But in the XL mod, strange as it seems, my favorite is the Cuman Warrior.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Almohad Urban Militia.
Completely ficticious I know, but they were easy to get, +1 Valour in Granada and close to iron upgrades. Oh, and they kicked ass in Early
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Ghulam Bodyguards!
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
cannon elephants
seriously... i'd love to see some knights in a charge but i do like the old longbowmen, i'll be able to fully decide when its on the shelves but until then
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
I think I'll have to resort to categories as well:
Light Infantry: Gallowglasses
Heavy Infantry: Halbardiers
Missile Infantry: Nizaris
Light Cavalry: Spanish Jinetes
Heavy Cavalry: Spanish Lancers
Missile Cavalry: Sipahi of the Porte
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
1: Kataphraktoi
2: Saxon Huscarles
3: Polish Retainers
4: Crusader Orders foot knights (awesome art)
5: Feudal foor knight (Aawesome art)
Too bad the drawn unit images in their discription are replaced by their ingame image
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Gotta love those Swiss Armoured Pikemen! Also a big fan of Pavise Arbalests and Billmen.
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
They were the strongest unit in the game, weren't they?Originally Posted by Zatoichi
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
the lowly kern...
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
I had a few I just loved:
1. Gothic Knights*
2. Lancers
3. Kataphrakatoi
*The only reason I liked Lancers almost as much as Gothic Knights in the original was because Gothic Knights didn't have lances, but now that they do they will definantly be my favorite unit.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
JInetes and varangian guard
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
interesting i am exceptionally excited to play as the venetian heavy infatry, however there are certain factions that would be rather unexpected to be in the gme such as the Sicilians as i am also very excited to try their units out too.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
NAZARI
my favorite unit in big mp battles, fast, great ranged dmg and they had very good attack stat, they could flank with the best of em
also arbs, but they were such a needed asset to all armies that i wont say they are my favorite as everyone had to have them most of the time
otherwise i would say almohad urban militia, for the price they couldnt be beat as heavy inf
this is my opinion before the cheese lancer patch, i quit after that...so others may prefer the heavy cav
Last edited by Callahan9119; 09-23-2006 at 22:56.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Gallowglasses for their single use fire & forget ability to cut their way into a tough enemy :)
More mundane, Militia Sergeants, the backbone of my armies, easily available in good numbers and sturdy against most enemies.
Chivalric Foot for small numbers deathsquad style overkill (Gothics with their crusader Great Helm that should have been a Sallet just didn't do much for me)
Least favourite, actually the popular leader around here, Jinettes; every time I tried using them they did hardly anything then got pannicked & ran away even when used in the most favourable circumstances I could find.
Last edited by hoom; 09-24-2006 at 08:13.
maybe those guys should be doing something more useful...
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
The Swiss Armored Pikemen in Vanilla and the Huscarls in VI. I loved both for their great everything.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Gallowglasses and Highland clansmen. Extremely high offense, cheap, and well....very low defense. My favourite light infantry by far. Since Scotland will be playable in 2, I fully expect the clansmen to return, and the Gallowglasses will probably be back too, hopefully.
Honorable mention for abyssinian guard and Ghazi infantry. Axemen are fun for their armour piercing ability.
Last edited by DisruptorX; 09-25-2006 at 13:25.
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Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
dont forget vikings
And when the brazen cry of achilles
Was heard among the trojans, all their hearts
Were troubled, and the full-maned horses whirled
The chariots backward, knowing griefs at hand...
Re: Your favourite unit from MTW
Woodsmen! The ultimate unit for low-cost armies. Gallowglasses and Clansmen, if you hold Ireland or Scotland. Gallowglasses have 8 charge and 5 attack, that's the same as Chiv knights have
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