Explorers

[Stickyman]

Anyone find a use for them?

[eris]

Not yet. I am hoping that someone here will come up with something. I would hate to have a completely useless unit in the game.

-storm

[proviisori]

Popping huts on isolated islands?

[couerdelion]

Scouting enemy/rival territory - particularly Isabelle or Tokugawa.

[Hermann the Lombard]

An idea that I'm using that I got here (like most of my ideas): give an Explorer the promotion "Medic" and stash one in an important stack (whether front line or "field hospital"). It's a good use for a relatively low-hammer city that can still produce +6 experience.

[rewster1]

Explorer uses:
Pillager escort
If you get compass early, explorers/horse archers are a solid mobile pillaging force.
Barb defense
Fortify one on a forest hill between you and a barb city, and you should be safe until the barbs get rifles. Which they usually don't. At least not before you've taken them out.
Medic
Use your early pillaging explorers and barb defenese explorers as medics once they become too weak for combat (no upgrade path). In the mid game they can move faster than your unit stacks, so you only need a few. In the late game, they move just as fast as armor and mech inf, and you never have to worry about a medic defending the stack and dying. Unless you're badly outmaneuvered and your stack is being slaughtered.

[JackRudd]

Originally posted by Hermann the Lombard
An idea that I'm using that I got here (like most of my ideas): give an Explorer the promotion "Medic" and stash one in an important stack (whether front line or "field hospital"). It's a good use for a relatively low-hammer city that can still produce +6 experience.

It doesn't even need to be a city that can produce +6 experience. It can be the Red Cross city.

[Quillan]

Have you ever played on a Terra map? There is certainly a use for Explorers there.

[unamablebuiler]

explorers make great sentries on forrested hill tiles

thats what i use them for now