Your favourite (ordinary) offensive unit?

[Egbert]

What is your favourite unit (not counting UUs) for a "humanatarian intervention" in an unruly neighbouring country?

I think mine would be the humble Swordsman. They can take ground with their relatively good offence and keep it (good defence for the time period too).

Knights are extremely useful too but they really need plenty of defensive units supporting them.

[alva]

I guess I will have to cavalry, that extra movement point allows it to end it's turn in a city, therefore less protection needed and faster health.

[rush]

Tanks. That is the signal to go into all-conquering mode.

[bongo]

Medieval Infantry, their animation is soo cool

[Dominae]

My favorite is the Archer, which are not listed in the poll.

If I had to vote for an available option, I would go for Cavalry (with Knights a close second...they're basically equivalent; either you go on the offensive with one or the other).


Dominae

[Mountain Sage]

My Red Cross Nurses, when I play PP.
Unfortunately, they are not on the list....

[Arrian]

Modern Armor. 3 moves + lots of firepower. But I hardly ever get to use them.

So, aside from MA, I'll go with the plain 'ole Horseman. Well, make that plural... say about 20 of them.

-Arrian

[TheArsenal]

MA

I use Calvary most often, because MT comes when I am most ready to expand by force. But my favorite is MA. It is fairly devastating, and aesthetically it has pretty cool muzzle flash graphics in attack. And in terms of pure late game mop by sheer brute force it's great. By the time it comes along, production and number of cities is so high it can be produced quickly in crazy numbers and dropped all around the world by way of airport. One city falls after another. Smash, smash, smash.

[vmxa1]

I guess Calvs, since they are the ones that I use todo the most damage and they are so versitile before tanks.

[Epistax]

I didn't take it as most favored, but simply the best, which is obviously calvary. This is due to their timing; nothing can stand up to them for a long time. An army of them aint bad either.

[Nakar Gabab]

I think my new favorite offensive unit is artillery, quite honestly. Why take 30% losses blitzing a city when you can take 0% and wind up with a "fresh" city ready to receive various cultural improvements?

Horsemen are nice too, but for some reason the ancient era never seems to last long enough for me, even when I turn goody huts off.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Epistax
I didn't take it as most favored, but simply the best, which is obviously calvary. This is due to their timing; nothing can stand up to them for a long time. An army of them aint bad either.

It said your favorite, if they meant what I thought as the best, they needed to use another term. Mounted Warriros could be someones fav.

[Nor Me]

I'm with Dominae on Archers. They are the unit that most often wins me the game.

But they're not there so I had to vote for Horsemen instead.

[Zero]

Cavs have long shelf life.

Also Cavs are not too bad at defending either until replaceable parts.

[Egbert]

Sorry chaps. I forgot about archers, very useful units they are too. I didn't think about mounted warriors either.

BTW I did mean "best" for taking another civ down.