Which Might Be The Strongest Unique Unit So Far

[Tlalynet]

Oranu Warriors make the best Mech Infantry, Impi make pretty awsome Mech infantry too. If its all about the short game I can see Preats, but for troops that are truly worht building a hundred of to make deadly long term armys they give no advantage. Berzerks make a good upgrade too as already mentioned, esp as you can take the Mech infantry path instead of the Marine path for an even stronger unit.
If you can get the tech advantage Drill II-IV Infantry lose very few HP vs less advanced troops.

 

[The Navy Seal]

Landsknecht is the best because it can kill mounted and melee which makes it a very useful unit in medieval times which is when you start conquest of the world.

 

[weregamer]

I can see the virtue of Praetorians if you are a warmonger at heart. I generally prefer to out-tech folks and even Praetorians can't deal with Riflemen and Cavalry. My vote is the Carrack - trans-ocean colonization when everybody else can only explore and without obsoleting a bunch of nice wonders with Astronomy. Also a big help on winning the circumnavigation race.

Combined with their great UB, Portugal is a very dominant force unless you are playing Pangaea or one of the no-water maps. On Terra they are particularly awesome.

I thought the Netherlands would be equally good, but Steam Power just comes too late, and since I often delay Astronomy the East Indiamen get replaced by Transports just too quickly.

 

[UnspokenRequest]

I'm surprised such questions are still asked. It's the praetorians! Plain and simple.

A more interesting question would be, if the praetorian didn't exist what would be the strongest unique unit?

 

[Gaius Octavius]

Hence this poll: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=241446

 

[pi-r8]

I voted for the Janissary, even though the Praet is probably better, simply because I wanted someone to give the Janissary some love. They're amazing in BTS! Play as Suleiman, run a specialist economy, and beeline to gunpowder. In my most recent game, I had Janissaries while my neighbors were still using ARCHERS.