My favorite unit...

[Omnirizon]

MaxWilson said:
At the moment it's Zamzummites. The best non-cap-only battlemages I have ever seen. (Well, Druids might be on the same level, and Ktonian Necromancers are quite close.)

-Max

Ktonians are cap-only. Bakemono Sorcerers are not though, and they are totally *****en; with the right spells, they can be out-of-the-box thugs. If there was a way to remove their old-age, they'd be top-notch.

EDIT: I just noticed, someone else already noted this, in response to the same post none-the-less. that's what I get for posting before reading the entire thread.

Lingchih said:
We are discussing favorite, and not best? Then for favorite, Sacred Hydras. They are like lawnmowers.

These guys are hands-down the scariest recruitable unit. en masse, they can be a match for SCs. A single legion (about 20) of them can massacre armies of hundreds, even big powerful blessed armies of hundreds. The only way I've found to kill something like that is by exploiting the auto-rout or killing their leaders. Make sure they have no where to run to either (auto-kill), because any victory will by Pyrrhic, and you don't want to fite that again. At least that's been my experience with them.

They single-handedly make any nation who has access to them a powerhouse.

[Aethyr]

Although they are cap only and have their limitations, the the Warriors of the Five Elements are my favorite.

[ano]

Omnirizon said:

Ktonians are cap-only. Bakemono Sorcerers are not though, and they are totally *****en; with the right spells, they can be out-of-the-box thugs.

Actually both Shinuyama and LA Agartha have everything recruited everywhere so Ktonians are not cap-only.

[kasnavada]

My favorite are vampires...

They can spawn other vampires, are immortal, fly, and get 3 blood and 3 death to access some of the best death anti-SC spell in the game : disintegrate and touch of death.

[Sombre]

Spawn? You mean summon via spell?

[Omnirizon]

ano said:

Actually both Shinuyama and LA Agartha have everything recruited everywhere so Ktonians are not cap-only.

i just double checked my current game as LA Argatha, and the Necros are cap only. It is a CBM game, perhaps this is why?

[Sombre]

It's CBM yes.

#selectsite "Tombs of the Oracles"
#homecom 1438
#gems 5 2
#end

1438 = Ktonian necro

[Omnirizon]

indeed. thanks for the clarification Sombre.

[MaxWilson]

Ouch, that's a pretty harsh nerf to Agartha. Ktonian Necromancers and national summons are the only things they really have going for them, although the crossbowmen aren't bad.

-Max

[Meglobob]

MaxWilson said:
Ouch, that's a pretty harsh nerf to Agartha. Ktonian Necromancers and national summons are the only things they really have going for them, although the crossbowmen aren't bad.

-Max

Very, very harsh. Too harsh in fact.

The crossbows have low precision so are not that great.