Your Most Powerful Unit

[Donegeal]

Aside from nukes, what has been your most most powerful unit at the end of a game? What has been the most promotions you've gotten?

I had a Marine with Combat 1-5 and Medic 1. Now the Modern Armor with Combat 1-3 was still more powerful, but the Marine was around from the begining of the game...

[Dr,ape]

I have some level 6 modern armors

[Blake]

I don't think I've had more than 5 promotions. Those would be on ancient units, like macemen. But with Agressive so it's actually 6 promotions.

[GeoModder]

Depends on the purpose, but the later armour, mech infantry and marines are quite powerfull with their "free" promotion when created.

[madmaxxam]

I had an infintry that had been promoted all through the game and upgraded from an axeman I think. Also, I was Mongolia, so I had a free extra strength upgrade. In the end he had city raider 1 & 2, combat 1-4, pinch, and ambush. He was level 8, and the game ended a bit before I could make him level 9.

[Donegeal]

Hmmm... just finished a game for the purpose of making a powerful unit:

Modern Armor:
Blitz (automatic)
Combat I
Combat II
Combat III
Combat IV
Combat V
City Raider I
City Raider II
City Raider III
Commando
Barrage I

Game ended with a Time victory.

[Shogun Gunner]

I've had only one level 6 unit. A Modern Tank. It was kickass. Then it died.

[Timmer]

You can make a city a super-unit producer if you

- Have the trait that gives free combat I promotion
- Built West Point and Red Cross in the same city (use
a coastal city, add a dock and barracks)
- Build the Pentagon
- Adopt Theocracy, and spread your state religion to the
city.

Any unit produced here will already have plenty
of experience points, plus a unit like Mech Inf. or
Modern armor already start with a promotion.
Course, Modern Armor doesn't get the Red Cross
benefit.

If you engage in a war, don't be afraid to throw
artillery like lemmings at the enemy, weakening
them enough to be guaranteed a victory for the
unit you want to gain experience

[Jaybe]

Originally posted by Timmer
If you engage in a war, don't be afraid to throw
artillery like lemmings at the enemy, weakening
them enough to be guaranteed a victory for the
unit you want to gain experience

No, don't do that! Your unit will gain more experience if it's a tougher fight. Gaining just 1 XP per combat becuase your 20-strength unit is fighting units broken down to 2-5 strength is such a SLOW (and boring) way to go.

[MasterDave]

I had a commando infantry with medic one. Getting this unit to level seven took a loooog time, I believe that this guy started out as an axeman. Eventually he became a pillaging machine, able to zoom around in enemy territory then self heal while hiding in a forest. This was a game that I won by conquest in 1880, and I was at war almost the whole game, so I had many level five units, a few sixes, and the super commando guy by the end.

[sabrewolf]

MD: if you're at war all the time, how do you cope with WW? after just 3 turns of war i'm getting some 5 extra unhappy faces or so. and that's only at prince level.
i know that nationhood and police help but they come a bit later on...

[Last Conformist]

@Timmer: Also adopt Vassalage for even better effect.

[LordShiva]

My strongest unit: Longbowmen with the Defeat Modern Armour bonus

[Shogun Gunner]

Has anyone ever gotten ALL promotions? Is that possible?

[sabrewolf]

shogun gunner: there are probably 15 promotions and you'd need to have
2+3+5+7+9+11+13+15+17+19+21+23+25+27+29=226 points for that.
so reckon you hit twice every turn with a blitz unit and suffer no losses: 113 turns!!!