Favorite units

[rpodos]

Immortals.

Attack = 4. Get them with Iron Working.

Highest relative strength, for the longest time, in the entire game.

Nothing else needs be said.

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[WarpStorm]

ICBM

[GarethDaragon]

two words... panzers.

i'll admit i'm a civ newbie, and i just began my first regent level game last night (normally play warlord)... but the movement three panzers rock. nothing like being able to siege a city with multiple attacks per unit per turn.

actually i had enough of a tech lead that even though i COULD promote my panzers to modern armour, i chose not to since they were still sooooo dominate.

fun, fun, fun...

as for my regent game, i'm trying out the babs, since everyone seems to love them. bowmen seem cool for an early rush. we'll see

[godinex]

Samurai, explorers - helos.
Samurai great defense great attack. Explorer pillage oportunism, helos fast unexpected infantry attack and obviusly mi all time favorite artillery.

[Nym]

I usually use fast units for attacking (horsemen, cavalry, tank and armor), but I essentially play defensive/builder game (spearman, pikeman, musketeer, rifleman, infantry, mechanized infantry). I also use bombing units before attacking (catapult, canon, artillery especially, bomber). I rarely use naval unit (otherwise for discovering at the beginning). Even without Leo Workshop I try to maintain all my units up to date and I rarelly have ancient era units during industrial era.

But to choose one unit among the others I would say cavalry, probably because it's a very powerful unit when it appears and still remains powerful a long time.

[PatLasch]

I'd have to vote for the hoplite. They make winning occ games a possibility, since they can be built right away and they are solid against nearly anything until knights.

[petey]

I have to vote for the Mounted Warrior.

Gets you the movement and offense in the ancient age, and your army is upgradable all the way to calvalry.

Plus, as Iroquois, you almost always start next to the Americans who build a lot of cities and are weak in the ancient age, so you can conquer a lot of territory quickly to make up for the AI advantages on higher levels

[DrSpike]

War chariots. Cheap and available after 1 advance, both of which are critical for early game warmongering on the higher levels.

Second place knights (or knight based units). These represent a huge increase in offensive power when you get them, one that even on 1.17f lasts a while.

[Cyclotron]

Chariots look cool, but I always manage to get horse riding before I get horses, so I have never even see them on my build list...

My favorite is the Legion, because it combines the great attack of a swordsman with the defense of a pikeman (which is still a way advanced unit compared to the legion). Legions require no support units, whereas cav and knights need defenders to go with them.

Hoplites are also very nice, but because you don't "use" them so much as just fortify them, they are very good but not quite "cool".

[Kizami]

THE BATTLESHIP of course!!! It just looks cool! I still have yet to see a battleship vs. battleship however...

[Laertes]

The Privateer

On its own, a poxy unit, but a fleet (or fleets) of these wandering around the globe sinking everyone's caravels and galleons makes for a very pleasant diversion whilst my empire grows to a massive size.

[Seeker]

I liked Legions. Cheap, but good enough attack to overwhelm small numbers of Hoplites.

Obviously the somewhat BS Persian unit...

And the War Chariot can really rule if the enemy is without horses or cut off (For a while at least, and not against Greeks). And cheap too! You can make a whole lot of chariots pretty quickly.

[RedShark]

Artillery and lots of it. With loads of Artillery you can deal with anything. Just use a regular unit to pick off the remains. Also good for dealing with incoming ships offshore (including battleships).

Played a game when I was being constantly attacked, I barely lost any units over the whole game as all opposing forces had no stength left after the artillery had dealt with them.

However, need railroads for them to move around effectively.

Normal units has to be cavalry.....

[twistedx]

Originally posted by Kizami
THE BATTLESHIP of course!!! It just looks cool! I still have yet to see a battleship vs. battleship however...

I like the battleship also, but I don't find it all too useful since it's claim-to-fame is its bombardment. It'll be MUCH more useful when the next patch comes out that allows killing by bombardment.

-- twistedx

[Il Duce]

Cossack

An improved calvary
Very Useful