What do you think is the best UU?

[sabo]

Some people may call me crazy but at Monarch and below the panzer is by far the best UU. Since Germany is scientific you will get panzers long before your enemy AI can build anything to stop them. I have wiped out entire civs in a matter of a couple of turns with them. I've never been able to do that with any other UU.

At higher levels definately the Sipahai

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Panzer - Because blitzkreigs are so much fun
Immortal - Dominate the Ancient Age. Can take pretty much anything till the muskets
Sipahi - Mobile and and the highest attack value until tanks
H'wacha - They will blast your opponent to pieces
Berserk - Just plain rock
Samurai - The best graphics in Civ. Especially the attack.

 

[Reprisal]

I'm primarily a defensive-oriented player, so I tend to like those types of units: (In Order of More Favoured to Less Favoured)

• Sumerian Enkidu Warrior
• Greek Hoplite
• French Musketeer

I tend to favour the early game to cement my lead anyway, so that's why I listed the EW before the Hoplite,

- Rep.

 

[dmanakho]

In C3C Russian Cossacks are one of the best UU. In C3C Cossacks can do blitz and they are bassicaly pantzers of it's age.
I noticed not many people know about this new cossacks feature.
It makes leader fishing a peace of cake....

 

[norwegianviking]

hello bezerk has that huge 2-1 advantage and are early amphibians. Quote superbeaverinc. "they just plain rock" unquote. I don't see why berzerk is barly on anyone's list

 

[dmanakho]

hello bezerk has that huge 2-1 advantage and are early amphibians. Quote superbeaverinc. "they just plain rock" unquote. I don't see why berzerk is barly on anyone's list

Well, bersercks are good but they appear at the same time with knights...
and knights can be upgraded to cavalry... So i usually always build knights instead of berserks, despite how good they are, knights are much better in a long run

 

[norwegianviking]

Of course chivalry is unneeded so I usually skip that, knights and all.

 

[dmanakho]

Of course chivalry is unneeded so I usually skip that, knights and all.

You must be builder type then..
Since I am always trying to finish my game in Middle - Early Industrial age i must have knights to do some majore razing.... but this is off topic... sorry we discuss UUs

 

[toh6wy]

Berserkers are very cool - but one main problem with them is that unlike the unit they replace, Longbowmen, they don't upgrade to Guerrillas, or in fact anything at all. Luckily their usefulness lasts a long time.

 

[ForTheEmpire]

The following statistics were printed in the magazine Russian Life, all in a row and in the same order as below. Draw your own conclusions...
95%: number of Russian schools not in compliance with fire regulations
15,000,000: Russian schoolchildren in 2001
5,000,000: Russian schoolchildren estimated in 2007

What the...

 

[bob rulz]

Berserks, Panzers, Ansar Warriors, and Sipahi, all awesome.

And I'm surprised no one has said the Numidian Mercenary yet...

 

[LLXerxes]

Immortal (Best offensive ancient unit)
Samurai (read SperBeavers post)
Bersek (Strong, amphibious)
Sipahi (kicks offensively)
Numidian Mercenary (attack ok, defensivly rock!)

 

[norwegianviking]

You must be builder type then..
Since I am always trying to finish my game in Middle - Early Industrial age i must have knights to do some majore razing.... but this is off topic... sorry we discuss UUs

Berzerks are 6/2/1, knights are only 4/3/2, berzerks would be better for raising because knights are better defenders!

 

[truckingpete]

Sipha..
War Elephant..
Musketeer..

That order too...

 

[bob rulz]

Oh yes, how could I forget the war elephant?

 

[LLXerxes]

Oh yes, how could I forget the war elephant?

because it kinda sucks.

 

[T-Money]

Yeah it does is comparison to the better units of the age (cavs, muskets, etc) but the whole point of the War Elephant is that if you have neither iron nor horses you can pump out tons of these suckers, trigger GA, pump out more and decimate your enemies, coming out on top by the late Middle/EArly Industrial ages.

 

[sabo]

I don't think I've ever played a civ that had a war elephant, which one is it India?

 

[LLXerxes]

I don't think I've ever played a civ that had a war elephant, which one is it India?

Yes.
In RoR it is Carthage.

 

[Arathorn]

Don't forget in C3C that the war elephant has an extra hp. That is a HUGE benefit. A fully-healed war elephant is as hard to kill as a 5/4/2 (approximately). Definitely a unit to consider.

I find it interesting that the opinions discussed here generally dramatically differently from the good expressions in Ision's thread on UUs at

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=93880

Nad, Ision, and I (all three deity+ players) listed three tiers of UUs. No real strong consensus there, even, but none of us listed numidians higher than second tier. What a lame UU. Cossacks, too, got little to no love, from the tiering group...in this thread, they have.

There's probably a lesson here somewhere, but I sure can't put it into words.

Arathorn