Hey! I have read these forums for some time and I ment to participate to the discussion but totally forgot about it. But now I'm a bit bored so I'll share my opinions about the best and my favourite UU's, I hope it is at least a little interesting or something like that. 
Many people tell that praetorians are without doubt the best UU's in the game. I disagree. Of course they are good because they have 2 strengths more than a normal swordsman but in my opinion they are not THAT good.
Iron working is a tech that I don't like to research myself, I let the AI research it and trade for it. I think there are more useful techs to research in the start than iron working. If you go for iron working, the moment you have enough praetorians the AI will probably have axemen and you should have catapults to not suffer too much damage, I think this is the case at least in higher difficulties. And if you wait for construction to attack and you build enough catas you should do almost as well with axemen after the collateral damage. Of course I could be wrong on this one but I haven't found very much use for them so this is just my opinion.
In my opinion the best UU's are Queshuas, war chariots and conquistadors. Queshuas are great for early rushing, barb defense and stuff like that. War chariots are good for pretty much the same reasons and the techs to get them are easily gotten. I still don't like these two that much because it sometimes feels just too easy but as I said, they are good.
The conquistadors on the other hand are in my opinion fun and very good. Military tradition is a tech I research myself almost every time. I like how it is part of a strategy to be first on the liberalism race and then you get it before anybody else and you can conquer the world pretty easily. You actually HAVE TO play a good game and plan ahead to get it, you can't just rush immediately and win. They are very useful only if you get them early enough, if everybody else has cuirs/rifles/some good units they loose their bonus(against melee units).
Fast workers are great also but I don't like them that much because I find them a bit boring. Also I don't think they can affect the game that much, they just make your land working a little faster. But still they are top tier.
Other units I do like very much are immortals and numidian cavalry. Immortals are like war chariots but they are more interesting since they aren't just chariots with more strength. I like rushing with them.
Numidian cavalry are very underrated in my opinion. I usually don't like going for HBR but these units are just so much fun. They are like axemen with two movement points, they have 20% withdraw chance from combat + they start with flacking and units with promotions that stay when they are upgraded are always great. Sure they have 1 strength less but I think they are just great for flancking the enemy catapults.
Hope you understood something since my english isn't very good and I would like to hear your opinions.
Many people tell that praetorians are without doubt the best UU's in the game. I disagree. Of course they are good because they have 2 strengths more than a normal swordsman but in my opinion they are not THAT good.
Iron working is a tech that I don't like to research myself, I let the AI research it and trade for it. I think there are more useful techs to research in the start than iron working. If you go for iron working, the moment you have enough praetorians the AI will probably have axemen and you should have catapults to not suffer too much damage, I think this is the case at least in higher difficulties. And if you wait for construction to attack and you build enough catas you should do almost as well with axemen after the collateral damage. Of course I could be wrong on this one but I haven't found very much use for them so this is just my opinion.
In my opinion the best UU's are Queshuas, war chariots and conquistadors. Queshuas are great for early rushing, barb defense and stuff like that. War chariots are good for pretty much the same reasons and the techs to get them are easily gotten. I still don't like these two that much because it sometimes feels just too easy but as I said, they are good.
The conquistadors on the other hand are in my opinion fun and very good. Military tradition is a tech I research myself almost every time. I like how it is part of a strategy to be first on the liberalism race and then you get it before anybody else and you can conquer the world pretty easily. You actually HAVE TO play a good game and plan ahead to get it, you can't just rush immediately and win. They are very useful only if you get them early enough, if everybody else has cuirs/rifles/some good units they loose their bonus(against melee units).
Fast workers are great also but I don't like them that much because I find them a bit boring. Also I don't think they can affect the game that much, they just make your land working a little faster. But still they are top tier.
Other units I do like very much are immortals and numidian cavalry. Immortals are like war chariots but they are more interesting since they aren't just chariots with more strength. I like rushing with them.
Numidian cavalry are very underrated in my opinion. I usually don't like going for HBR but these units are just so much fun. They are like axemen with two movement points, they have 20% withdraw chance from combat + they start with flacking and units with promotions that stay when they are upgraded are always great. Sure they have 1 strength less but I think they are just great for flancking the enemy catapults.
Hope you understood something since my english isn't very good and I would like to hear your opinions.
...it actually gives me a headache
