Aoe1: Legionaries, Chariot Archers and Elephant Archers Aoe2: Cataphract, Huskarls and Berskers Aoe3: Musketeers (so basic they're really good), Cuirassiers, Oprichnik Oh, and I also love the Strelets...dying
AoE2 : cataphracts, longbowmen and samurais love units with great bonuses to counter others...
RO Citizen: Only when they're upgraded. Otherwise they're not too cost effective,
aoe1 never played it so mutch, not fast enough for my, but i like the photoman unit, can shoot across the map lol. aoe2 Mongolian Mangudai ofcourse, with the tactic of atack,retreat,atack,retreat.. aom i like anubis dudes. aoe3 i think the japans samurai, but in the vanilla version i love the dutch Ruyters.
Russian Stretlets.
Aoe1: Scythe Chariots Aoe2: Paladins, Mamelukes and Berskers Aoe3: Crossbowmen and Pikemen and Hussars and Landschneckts and Longbowmen.
AOM: There are lots of mythologic units that are cool like the Centaur, Phoenix, Leviathan, Kraken, Minotaur etc... AOE 3 Asian Dynasties: Shaolin Monks and Samurais.
My favorite units are the Atlantean Fire-Siphons from AoM, followed closely by the building destroying Atlantean palace unit. Favorite non-Atlantean unit is just the regular old Hoplite. Why fix the tried and true? I don't remember AoE much, but I remember really liking one of the large warships. I can't recall what they were called.
Musketeers, (or fusiliers, their mercenary bretheren) definately. The feeling one experiences when unleashing a crackling volley of flintlock fire is always exquisite.
Elite Mangudais - as hell as Mongol Armored Horse Archer
And in AOE3 I love using Jaguar Prowl Knights, Skull Knights, Dog Soldiers & Rifle Riders. Janissary + Sipahi backed up by Great Bombards worked very well too when playing as Ottomans.
Paladin cavalry for me. That or elephants.
Photonmen or E=MC^2 Troopers for me, the Photonmen exterminate units and the E-Troopers take out builings.
I only ever really got into AOE I. After that it was Empire Earth, Homeworld and now Medieval. My favorite combination of units in AOE I was Heavy Cataphract (fully upgraded) and Heavy Horse Archers (also fully upgraded). I'd make an entire army out of both and just kill EVERYTHING.
Skull Knights (a mass of those guys always devastated whoever I directed it at and they were kind of free) Loki Hersirs (especially with a few of the names that I saw), Kraken Longbowmen and Chu-Ko-Nu (with the Thumb Ring technology that gives archers 100% accuracy, you probably want to avoid Chu-Ko-Nu) Didn't play much AoE1, but I did like the Horse Archers.
AOE1:Chariot and Elephant AOE2:Mamelukes and Berserker AOE3:Janisarry,Bombard,Sipahi,and Colonial Militia
AOE1: Hoplite/Phalanx/Centurions AOE2: Woad Raider, Berzerk AOM: Hoplite, Avenger, Bellerophon! AOE3: Spahi, TWC Tomahawk, Forest Prowler, Urumi
AOE 3, you will not pass my musketeer meat sheild.... And TWC expansion hackapels, those mercs could kill a vill with two strikes.....
AOE 2: Mangudai, Cataphract AOE 3: Spahi, Janissary, Great Bombard
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