Favorite Unit

[elmenhorster]

crusaders and artillery. i cherish them and start mass production instantly after monotheism and machine tools discovered and that's the time when i'm aggressive.

 

[Ace]

it must be the archer in the early game, for being a good defender, but still a great fighter to wipe out catapults etc.
like many of you guys, I like the dragoon, power full as hell!
then it must be the battleship, for its capability to attack a city, and kill you unit even if the city has coastal defence. And the howitzer, ignores city walls and very, very powerfull!
that's my favourite units
And the sub sucks against the AI, they can of some reason see it 3-4 blocks away, and strike it down whit a fighter or missile!

Just so you know, the AI always knows where all your units are. It cheats! Subs really have only two uses in Civ 2. 1: as port defense, they can come out one hex and really hammer an attacking ship, and 2: They are usefull against a human player because the human player does not cheat and know where all your units are.

It helps if you have Magellens and Nuc power to "speed up" your subs.

 

[ColdWizard]

Engineers are my favorite, followed by spies.

As for subs, I use them as a cheap cruise missile platform/ferry. And sometimes for

 

[iambenben]

settlers all the way, how else would you be able to build all these units?

 

[JAC1]

Engineers, Howitzers, Stealth Fighters and Spies. At a stretch I'd pick Engineers over the rest.

 

[rrhal]

I'm usually pretty jazzed when Leo's turns my caravels into Galleons. It means the unhappiness penalty I was suffering in my democracy just because I had a boat out is gone and I can begin trading with my "unworthy neighbors" in earnest.

 

[ColdWizard]

settlers all the way, how else would you be able to build all these units?

In the nomad challenge I used to play back in the day, from huts and taking other civs' cities