What's the coolest TBS & RTS unit ever?

[Chemical Ollie]

What's the coolest unit you have tried in a strategy game? Both turn-based and real-time strategy counts. There are too many units to make a poll, so you have to suggest them yourself.

[Az]

The Mammoth tank in C&C/RA, and the Berta cannon in TA, for me.

[Chemical Ollie]

I have three favorites I can think of right away.

1) Siege Tank (Starcraft, Terrans) The sound when they fire is just awesome, and they outrange anything when turned into siege mode.

2) Space bomber (Call to Power) I waited all the game to get those. To bad they were so expensive. If you were the only tribe in space, the AI couldn't do anything to stop them.


3) Dark Templar (Starcraft -Brood Wars, Protoss). In multiplayer, a DT rush and air insertation of 4 DT:s from the flank could rip up a whole enemy base in minutes. People often forgot to get base defense early, not to mention detectors to see stealth units.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Azazel
The Mammoth tank in C&C/RA, ...

Yeah, I considered putting Mammoth on my top-3 list but there already was a tank.

[Kc7mxo]

Bah! Give me that old fashioned devestator, from dune 2!

[Az]

Siege Tanks are cool, but Mammoth tanks have a combined anti tank/ anti air/ anti infantry capability. It's self healing. It has great armor....It's almost flawless.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Azazel
Siege Tanks are cool, but Mammoth tanks have a combined anti tank/ anti air/ anti infantry capability. It's self healing. It has great armor....It's almost flawless.

The Mammoths only weakness is speed. But with cool I didn't mean "effective" or "powerful" but "adding to gaming value". A powerful unit normally add to the gaming value but more is needed to get full joy. I think Siege Tanks are more fun than Mammoths, but that's probably because I consider Starcraft a better game.

[Az]

I dislike Starcraft. Because I suck at it.


Well, cool units: The Subterrenean APC in Tiberian sun. It pops up in the middle of your base, and there is nothing you can do about it!!!

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Azazel
I dislike Starcraft. Because I suck at it.


Well, cool units: The Subterrenean APC in Tiberian sun. It pops up in the middle of your base, and there is nothing you can do about it!!!

Yeah, fill it with engineers and you own the base! But it only works against newbies.

[Skanky Burns]

Sonic tanks from Dune 2 (with the bug that makes them long-range) were awesome. Just put them all in a line and move forward slowly - you will own the map. Plus the sound they make as the decimate the enemies is quite nice.

[General Ludd]

Zerglings and Ultralisks. That was one of my favorite ways to kill someone in Starcraft, build a huge swarm and just completely overwhelm their defences. Have like 200 zerglings, and a group or two of ultralisks. It's great, and death by zerglings is such a humiliating way to die, too.


When you first start attacking they'll probably laugh at you.. but after they've killed hunreds of units and all their defences are going up in flames and zerglings are all over their base killing workers while more of them still flooding into their base, the 'WTF!??'s will start up.

[Chemical Ollie]

But the 6 Zergling rush is kinda lame, isn't it?

[Triped]

It's lame-ness depends on how you execute it and how you customize it. For example, a 6-speedling attack is one of the most elegant maneuvers in the game, as it is very difficult and very rewarding.

[Zero]

If I could carry the costeffective awesomeness of just ONE unit with me anywhere, I'd select the med tanks. (RA1)

Med tanks ownz joo OMG OMG.

Nothing beats Med tanks in performance/cost/speed/upgrade/availability etc etc.... in any game. Tell me a unit that single handedly dominates a game like med tank/heavy tanks do in RA1.

In starcraft single most effective unit is hydralisk. Dragoon you say? Two Hydras agst 1? I dont think so.

Nothing beats Hydralsik in performance/cost/speed/upgrade/availability etc etc....

if I can take two it would have to be reavers and dropship. WTF, reavers shouldnt be allowed into ****ing dropships!

As for civ, if you can have MWs and impis, I wont play you.

[Zopperoni]

NOD's Sub-terranean APC.

I used quite a lot in Tiberian Sun MP a few years ago