@zytozid
Favourite units: Party robot for being cool as default and useful because it can replace the brew brother (though the PBEM Mod brew brothers are actually useful i think, but the vanilla ones really not...).
Halfling nightwatch: Because playing with them always makes me feel like a small guy in a world thats too big and dangerous, but full of wonders. With forestry and building concealment they even make decent scouts (once the hostile indies are gone)

Units that are cool and imho exceptionally strong:
Frostling Ice Queen with sorc stun: frost aura, teleport, frost nova, stun...
Shadow Stalkers: phys protection, backstabbing and concealments.
Forge priest: Can heal, has elemental dmg and has dispel magic on veteran but is sturdier and more versatile (mountaineering, lava walking) than human priest. Basically your all in one "don't worry I got this" support.
Sun Guard: Apart from already mentioned stuff it also has guard breaker...

There are several topics on the forum on the favourite units, for instance these:
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/your-favourite-units-so-far-in-the-game/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/226840/discussions/0/594820656478580224/

For me:
T1: Swarm Darters, I just love them and they can do really crazy damage with their 2 channels, especially in the right circumstances like Elite, Flanking, critical and on a Weakened units, taking down high tier units on their own. I love their synergies with Blight Doctors and Untouchables, and their Inflict Severely Poisoned on medal.
T2: Blight Doctor, overall I prefer versatile units and so I tend to prefer Supports. Blight Doctor is really good with Weakening, which synergize perfectly with other Goblins and solve the issue of Blight immunity or resistance from many units. They also have 3 Inflicts on medal, as well as Cure Disease and Steal Enchantment. As all other racial Support, they have surprisingly strong ranged damage and as all Support, True Sight.
T3: Naga Matriarch is surely a strong pick, but difficult to obtain. Very versatile, very strong with Regrowth. An excellent Support. I also love Draconian Flyer, one of my favourite Flying units, because it's hard to kill, a good lone unit (also good as a group of Flyers) which can sustain itself in difficult environment with Fast Healing. Its Vision Range Upgrade on medal and Killing Momentum are really strong.
T4: Horned God because again it's quite versatile.


The Tigran Berserkers is probably OP, Sauna is really a player to monitor, he has an eye for spotting things too good to be true, but actually true because not yet nerfed!

@Zytozid
Some of my favourite units (with some additional context abilities) are:

Ghoul sun guard with shadowborn life steal: overall an easy to produce cheap pikeman that can defend towns and forts from even t3 flyers. makes clearing cavarly sites a cakewalk and is still decent against all types of units. a tiny bit OP imo.

Ghoul goblin butcher with life drain (innate + vampiric + shadowborn): it's great to get a few cities pumping these bad boys out one per turn at veteran rank (they get volunteer at veteran so have the upkeep of a t1 unit despite of having the power of a t3 one).

Tigran berserker: just a really great and fast unit, AI plays well with them in autocombat too for what I've seen. high movement + pounce + both inflict bleed and bloodthirsty (at veteran IIRC). even better with life steal and tireless (elite). Add predator to the mix and you have a really good cheap unit you can mass spam pretty early and will remain good all the way through the midgame at least.

Hello all,

Good question from Zytozid regarding best units by tier, here is (among other things) the answers from some of the top players, that qualified for the finals in the last PBEM Duel Tournament: Gab, Skuns, Fist and Sjow.

My picks in regards to abilities and potential (basically evolving) of being a great unit is:
T1: Martyr, Vampire Spider, Tigran Sun Guard
T2: (Dwarf/Orc) Crusader or Human Cavalry
T3: Naga Queen or Warbreed depending on class, if Sorceror or Theocrat the Naga if other classes Warbreed
T4: Horned God or Golden Dragon

@Hiliadan

too bad you only have 5 stacks of stalkers. Of course that will not suffice
@Marcuspers is your mass-dominate spell ready soon?

offtopic: what is/are you favourite units in the game and why?
Reasons can be any including mechanics/abilities, description, versatility, affordability, strength, balance etc.

Is there a thread about this somewhere?

#myteamonly
Hiliadan, I see you only have 5 stacks of stalkers, not 6, and one of them doesn't even have explosive death? Or are you just trying to intimidate our enemies with lies?

Turn 9 and already 6 shadow stalkers and a jugger, wow, I must do something wrong

Not sure it will beat the stacks of 6 Shadow Stalkers with Life Drain, Explosive Death, Regrowth and Lucky that I sent to each of your capital and that arrives next turn...
We'll see!

Worst map I ever played was my first match on here against Euzekiel. There was a line of unpassable water between us and mountains and rocks in a way, that I could hardly expand/lost a lot of time.
It doesn't change the outcome as Euzekiel is far better than me but it still was quite annoying ^^

But don't worry Marcuspers, I will summon my Juggernaut next to Hiliadan next turn. It will have resurrection, life steal and thorn hedge walls (yes, like a wall!) casted on it while shooting phantasm warriors with blood honor at it's enemies.


Easy!

In theory that is correct, but if you don't buy all units at turn 1 you need to redo your calculations
Also, I believe there is never 2 t3, but can be multiple T2's, I also think that there will always be a few T1, so even at turn 60 there will be T1's

I just did my turn, and I've never seen a shittier map than this! I'm sure you will be happy to hear that, hehe.