Best unit/s

[dude21862004]

In your opinion, what is the best unit or combination of units in Vanilla?

I really like the combination of elephant and cavalry units. Send in the elephants to break up the enemy formations with cavalry right behind to sweep in and take advantage. The biggest problem with that is that elephants can only be trained in certain places .

[jukeness]

Probably some urban cohorts mixed with some roman general bodyguards or praetorian cavalry. While the urbans are holding off the enemy you can just take your praetorian cavalry around and flank them all sense urbans never flee.

[DonRaphael]

I really like this composition (not optimal but I like it).

1x: General unit
6x: Heavy infantry units
4x: Archer units
4: Cataphract units
2: Scythed Chariot units
3: Light Cavalry unit

If the opponent have a heavy armored army:

1x: General unit
7: Heavy infantry units
5: Cataphract units
2: Scythed Chariot units
2: Heavy Cavalry units
3: Light Cavalry units

My absolute favorite: Cataphract.

[Genius of the Restoration]

Best unit: Egyptian Chariot General hands down.

Combination: Cav and archers. Infantry aren't really necessary once you've got superiority in these two fields. Infantry are the lesser of the three basic unit types IMO.

A MP fellow will come here and try to correct this if I don't mention that this is for campaign, so count this as the obligatory 'go away, I'm not talking about that'.

[dacder]

Your right for combination.
I just dislike chaz gens are allergic to phalanxes :\

[Genius of the Restoration]

I just dislike chaz gens are allergic to phalanxes :\

Yeah that sucks, but they have an almost endless supply of shots which should help break the enemy so they don't lose too many. Anyone who charges a phalanx from the front with one deserves to lose their general.

[Stingray970]

Wait... You want the best combo?

1x General
19x Cataphracts

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

Wait... You want the best combo?

1x General
19x Cataphracts

This. Will kill anything the AI will ever throw at you. The General should be of some cata variety too.

[lmgtfy]

19 cataphracts will not defeat 19 elite pikemen no chance not if both players are human and not in coma. VS AI you can rout 19 pikes with 2-3 heavy cav.

[TheFoolOnTheHill]

yes haha do it for fun only or leave it to the profesinals (not me)

[Primo]

Cavarly units are extremely overpowered in vanilla - so cataphracts.

[MortenJessen]

Vanilla you say? Sacred Band, chariot archers and Armoured Elephants.

[Primo]

Vanilla you say? Sacred Band, chariot archers and Armoured Elephants.

I think Elephants and chariot archers alone suffice - Sacred Band is weak against them, and an urban should take them down, too.

[MortenJessen]

I think Elephants and chariot archers alone suffice - Sacred Band is weak against them, and an urban should take them down, too.

You do know that the Sacred Band can take down elephants. And chariots too. With ease. And, a well placed hoplite is all it takes to take down an Urban Cohort.
It is all a matter of tactics....

[Primo]

You do know that the Sacred Band can take down elephants. And chariots too. With ease. And, a well placed hoplite is all it takes to take down an Urban Cohort.
It is all a matter of tactics....

I assumed now playing against a human. Then they would take heavy losses through the arrows. And With the right tactic you can make a unit militia hoplites whipe out 3 whole armys out of the named "best" ones.

[tudor93]

I assumed now playing against a human. Then they would take heavy losses through the arrows. And With the right tactic you can make a unit militia hoplites whipe out 3 whole armys out of the named "best" ones.

SP section here
on topic: well, the AI is crap so you really don't need all those elite units to beat him, but it's fun to recruit them maybe urbans and spartans (unfortunately in vanilla they look retarded), oh and elephants, and catas; but I like armoured hoplites the most, they look so badass

[Ender Wiggin]

I assumed now playing against a human. Then they would take heavy losses through the arrows. And With the right tactic you can make a unit militia hoplites whipe out 3 whole armys out of the named "best" ones.

I prefer Sacred Band Spearmen when my strategy doesn't have the phalanx as the decisive arm. Spartans have 3 armor, but since they have 2hp, it's an effective 6 armor, whereas the Sacred Band have 11 armor, so they'll absorb arrows and hits to the back far better than Spartans.

[€azy-£]

5 Eeastern Infantery and 2 archer units and 1 javelin on a bridge

[Primo]

5 Eeastern Infantery and 2 archer units and 1 javelin on a bridge

I don´t know. Strongest units in bridge battle is either spartans or sacred band, and both could easily kill everything the enemy throws at them, most of the times without own losses.

[€azy-£]

I don´t know. Strongest units in bridge battle is either spartans or sacred band, and both could easily kill everything the enemy throws at them, most of the times without own losses.

If you throw something on a easter infantry, every 1 will die but if you throw easter infantry on anyone they will fly (notice the poetry) since they are glitch-ed or having a hidden special ability