Worst EB Unit?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Err...
I didn't even post in this thread...
Was it referred to my sig or to some idiotic comment I made about some unit in some other thread?

Sig.

[jhhowell]

Looking at the question from the perspective of what's not worth recruiting, I'd include Velites as contenders. They're decent skirmishers, but by the time they become available Rome is guaranteed access to Akontistai and Peltastai, and very likely can also recruit Numidians. The key qualities of javelin units are unit size and to a lesser extent ammo and range. Velites are IMHO almost as good as Akontistai (more men make better garrisons, more damaging single volleys on the battlefield, Akontistai have better range, and can be recruited and retrained over half the Mediterranean) and decisively inferior to the other two units (Peltasts making up for lower unit size with the versatility of having a viable melee attack and armor). So although their stats are not what one would think of as a "worst unit" contender, placed in context I honestly can't imagine a circumstance when it would make sense for Rome to recruit any Velites.

Of the units previously mentioned, I'd go with Toxotai. Deeply unimpressive.

[Moros]

Sacred Band infantry. Give me the cheaper, more avaible heavy elite phalangites any time. much more cost effective + 2 times more men.

[Bootsiuv]

Aren't those trained from a temple? I would think they would only be available in 1-2 cities in your empire, unless you build the appropriate temple in every city in your empire. I've not used them much in campaign.

[Spoofa]

heh, no, they are only trainable in I THINK Carthage, at most the province to the south (the name escapes me).