What's the coolest TBS & RTS unit ever?

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Kc7mxo
Have you ever heard starcraft stutter?

"Nucle-Nucle-Nucle-Nucle-Nuclear Launch Detected"

My enemies have.

Man, they really have to make a laughing face that cries!


Another unit I like is the Death Star in Star Wars Rebellion. Just the fact that when you order them to blow up a planet, you get a nice cut scene fills me with Imperial Pride.

[Chemical Ollie]

I have never tried it myself, but I could imagine the Tesla tank in some of the Red Alert expansions could add some gaming value.

Hey, let's fry some infantry!

Then the nutcracker sound when you smash infantry under a harvester in any C&C clone is awesome!!!

[Chemical Ollie]

Hey, how could I forget Worms? The simple but annoying over-the-edge-push, the suicide bomber sheep, and most of all the kamekaze jump - Hoooodeee-Dooooodeeeee!!!!!

[alva]

The harvester in C&C-Red Alert- , I absolutely loved the sound bite on that one.
"Yeeeaaah?"

[Az]

Somehow, I have a hard time seeing anyone choose a HARVESTER as the coolest unit in any game.

[General Ludd]

Freight Truck in Civ2.

[Main_Brain]

Elephants :=)
Civ2,AoK

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by loinburger
Mighty Gorgons in HOMM III. Get a large enough stack of them, and their Death Stare will take out anything. Nothing's more satisfying than taking out your opponent's stack of 5 Azure Dragons (with a combined total of 5000 HP) with your relatively miniscule stack of Mighty Gorgons.

Vampire Lords in HOMM III. Their power just keeps growing as their stack gets larger -- a single ArchAngel can take out ten Vampire Lords, but a hundred Vampire Lords will make mincemeat of ten ArchAngels.

Phoenixes in HOMM III. Not only are they the fastest unit in the game, but they're also immune to fire. Get a hero with a high enough Spell Power, fill your army with Phoenixes (plus a few Magic Elementals and Energy Elementals, just in case your enemy has some Black Dragons or something), and Armageddon the hell out of everybody. Wutang!

Vampire Lords's power doesn't grow, they just regain their health, they can never resurrect more Lords than they started with

Also I'm not sure about the 100 Vampire Lords winning against 10 Archangels, but the Archangels could win if you divided the Archangels into groups of 3+3+4 as they can then resurrect a dead stack of Archangels.. that combined with some spellcasting and they would kill the Lords... of course if you're fighting against enemy wizards they could also call in some spellpower... I think it's hard to say

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Trajanus
Vampire Lords's power doesn't grow, they just regain their health, they can never resurrect more Lords than they started with

True, I meant that the more vampire lords you've got in a stack, the tougher it becomes to make them stay dead. Ten vampire lords just can't drain health fast enough from a single ArchAngel, whereas a hundred vampire lords are a veritable resurrection machine.

[Odin]

Nuclear Bombers in Empire Earth. I love seeing the enemy get pounded with 15 of them, protected with 15 fighters or fighter-bombers.

NUKES AWAY!!!

[Az]

yeah, those ARE great, Odin.

[Skanky Burns]

I love sending in infantry swarms in RTS games - even if they are ineffective. I once took out an enemy tank with squads of light infantry in Dune2. Of course, I lost quite a few people and building enough soldiers to kill that tank cost me more than building a tank of my own, but fun was had by all. Except the dead infantry.

[Az]

well, to be fair, Infantry has improved. Just look at RA2s GIs.

[Jamski]

Originally posted by Azazel
Just look at RA2s GIs.

-Jam

[lord of the mark]

camels - civ2.