What are your favorite units in the game?

[Stellar]

Must be Swedish Strv-122 MBT, This steel beast has helped me to conquer Finland, Norway, Russia and now kicking some *** in China

Also Swedish RBS-56 (Bill) missile teams rock, these have very long firing range and are very accurate, mostly seems kill enemy MBT's with one shot

From Infantry units i choose paras, small teams but very hard fighters as my enemy have found out after underestimating them.

[Mustang]

The RBS-56 Bill has a top attack capability, dosen't it? I haven't tried it, but if it does it wouldn't probably be as good as a Javelin. There isn't much to choose from between modern ATGMs as long as they have top attack.

You're right about the BM-27 thing, I opened up the game and checked it out. I bought 6 batteries and 3 companies. Still, I have an insane ammount of firepower.

Skill actually is a big deal when it comes to infantry combat, except for very close-in combat. Inexperienced troops have poor marksmanship and will loose in any battle greater than one hex away, even with superior numbers.

I don't like any of the Western tanks because most of them lack either VIRSS or Arena systems, which are a must against top-attack ATGMs.

[Pazam]

For tanks, I'm in love with the Israeli Merkava models 3 or if you can afford them the Merkava 4. They have great armor, fire-control and in real-life action can also transport infantry.

If you are looking for an M60-type tank, the Israeli Magach 6 Gal is the best. It has reactive armor [Israel was the first country to use them], a great fire control system [the Gal is actually state of the art and under-represented in the game], and best of all plenty of room inside to store food for the tank crew :-)

[PlasmaKrab]

You can get even better with the Sabra, which is basically an ugraded Magach-7 with the Merkava's 120mm gun.
Should come in service any time in the Turkish forces if I'm not mistaken, but I couldn't find it in the game (the T-84 Yatagan is pretty funny though!).
Not yet in Israeli service, but I wouldn't bet it will never be...
BTW the ultimate Magach seems to be the -7 Alef, but that depends on which timeframe you're playing. Or is the Gal undertated?

Anyway the Merkava-4 still ranks among the very best tanks in the world IMHO, and that is pretty well pictured in the game.

[Pazam]

The Magach 6 Gal actually has a better fire control system than the Magach 7 of any type, but inferior armor. The Magach 6 Batash is a Gal version with added passive armor and the reactive armor removed. The game doesn't quite represent this correctly, but not everybody has driven one :-)

The Sabra is an upgrade to the M60 that Israel offers to countries and is probably not going to be available to the IDF. The Merkava appears to be Israel's choice in MBT and all of the Magach versions are actually being replaced in service in the IDF.

For APC, Israel is also King. The Achzarit takes the hull of a T55 MBT, removes the turret, and thereby gives the soldiers inside the armor protection of a tank. While a bit underarmed, compared with a Bradley, I'd still prefer to be inside one of these and not be a shooter than shoot it out with the enemy but have a lot less protection.

[Cameronius]

The only problem with the Achzarit is that it is so slow that you can't keep up with the tanks. With the Merkava at hand I wouldn't bother with APCs anyway. Just buy more tanks and load them up with infantry.

[Mustang]

The problem with modern tanks is that you have to worry about them getting killed by all kinds of top attack missiles and helicopter ATGMs. The Merkava 4b is nice because it has both VIRSS and LAHAT top-attack munitions, and it's probably my favorite tank now. The top attack ATGMs are pretty innacurate for some reason (the game says they have a hit chance of 70% or more, but they only hit about 30% of the time), and it's hard to get a good hit with them, but they're 1/10th the cost of a tank. If nothing else, they'll slow your opponenet down and force him to deal with all these hard to kill ATGM teams. What's also great about the Merkava is its ability to carry infantry- heavy snipers work very well against missile teams.

The Achzarit is just an overpriced hunk of metal. Anything without Chobham-type protection in modern scenarios is for all practical purposes as heavily armored as a jeep. I still think that BTR and M-113 type APCs are the best. The Russian Valuk APC is also an interesting design- very fast (speed of 37!), amphibious, about 40 points and has a 30mm chaingun.

How about boats? Does anyone here ever use naval units? The Yugoslav OOB has a "Missile Boat" equipped with a naval gun and two 57mm rocket launchers which have enough punch to kill anything else that floats. Some of the American PBRs have flameguns and are good against infantry. A lot of people think that patrol craft are useless against tanks, but I can tell you that I've immobilized a lot of armor with ship-mounted grenade launchers and rockets with flank shots. This was all during the WBW Carribean Conquest campaign, against older tanks. Of course, against anything mounting a good, accurate gun, PBRs are going to get blown out of the water.

[1Hussar]

My favourite units (no order of preference) are:

MLRS - time the arrival of MLRS cluster munitions right so that you have 'bounding artillery' strikes, and you can keep squashing the enemy as they advance. That's a great tactic to employ when playing a meeting engagement. By the time the enemy reach the victory hexes (or even get close) so little is left that the remainder of your advance is essentially a mopping-up op.

Great anti-armour weapon, also great for wiping out clusters of infantry. But what's best of all is that MLRS units automatically respond with counter-battery fire, with great effect. Unfortunately MLRS does not exist in the real Canadian Army T0&E, so when playing Canada v some other country, I have to attach US forces (equipped with MLRS) as a substitute. I will be working soon on an OOB for a fictional, in-the-future Canadian Army which actually has some decent kit including MLRS.

M777 155mm howitzer - it's capable of lobbing cluster munitions and is fairly cheap to buy. It's a half-decent alternative to MLRS if your buy points are limited. Just don't expect to blast away wide swaths of enemy forces.

Leopard 2A6EX/Strv122 - Far and away my favourite tanks - superb fire control, excellent armour (only the M1A2 is better in this area), great mobility.

CV9040 IFV - The 40mm main gun on this Swedish-built IFV just destroys infantry in the open, most wheeled/older tracked APC's with first-round hits, some older tanks if hit obliquely or from the rear.

Centauro tank destroyer - This thing is fast and potent. Half-decent armour. It's an ideal tool for conducting rapid advances and exploiting the enemy's weak spots.

[pdoktar]

With the "short" L44 gun? Try the Leo 2A6.

[Mustang]

Another good tank is the Merkava 4. The armor is excellent and the Merkava 4B has LAHAT top-attack missiles. An excellent tank.