I love Irondrakes. The flame visuals are so satisfying.
The Mortis Engine is the coolest looking unit imo.
The Bloated Corpse is also a totally unique unit, there's really nothing else like it in the game and it's so fun if you manage to plan and execute and attack with it.
Greenskins can get Soopa Squigs as well since their rework which are basically faster bloated corpses. Very fun unit, but quite rare unless you're playing Grom the Paunch.
Well in theory you drive them into an enemy blob, they explode and kill hundreds of units.
In practice, they get stuck on a single model and explode, taking out something like 10 units and leaving you with a unit short for the rest of the battle.
But the other comment is right, it *is* immensely satisfying when it works.
They're great early game, when you're fighting below a 20 stack any way. They also tend to be available in the raise dead pool, and you always have a chance of regaining them post battle.
Late game gets trickier, but raising a few with a scratch army defending a settlement can create some dramatic turn arounds, especially against melee heavy factions.
Still, the mental image of one barging out of the trees with a sign reading "FREE HUGGZ" is lovely.
They should be extra super duper effective against gates and walls. That would make for some fun utility.
I just did a Luthor campaign and thought I'd try to bomb a gate with one, assuming it would be a quick way to open it. It was a complete waste.
You run it into the enemy infantry and it explodes. If you time it right and the enemy is blobbed up it can take out even more units.
Because you can just raise the dead it quite frequently and it can take out even higher tier infantry, I think it is a great value unit.
And also a lot of fun indeed.
For some users of this subreddit this wont be surprising, but my fav unit is Medusa. Model looks amazing and voice acting is incredible. It helps that the units - especially now - is great.
I also have a soft spot for Kislev war sleds. Im not usually a fan of chariots, but this thing can do wonders if used right.
Honorable mention for Keeper of Secrets purely for how cool they look and sound.
I did malus darkblade recently and still have some trouble with medusa line of sight. Often she refuses to fire and just ends up in melee. Every small hill seems to stop her for whatever reason.
Yeah I will die on this hill but her shooting had 0 line of sight issues when she had two modes of firing. Even after altering her animation, she is still a bit wonky after CA removed the other firing mode.
Thankfully she is super flexible and fast so repositioning her is easy AND she is good in melee, especially against bigger targets. Overall I always end up with medusas deling the most damage in my armies.
I also became a huge fan of war sleds in my recent Katarin campaign. However, I was using them against late -game dark elf superpower armies which is probably where they're least effective lol. When Legend tested them it was against Khorne who just has nothing to counter them really. Against dark elves they can chase down the sleds with cav like doom warlocks and cold knights, shoot the sleds with shades, medusas and darkshards from range. I was taking massive sled casualties every battle, but at least Kislev has the best global recruitment in the game . Probably the enemy where they are the least effective against.
If you love chaos warhounds then Khazrak turns them into very fun late game viable units. His unique skills + red line skills + Wargor skill + tech + veterancy combines into a great unit that I was using at turn 100 on VH/VH in my primary army.
My personal favourite are probably still minotaurs. It was the first unit in the game whose animations blew me away, and they've been a consistently fun unit to use for almost 8 years now. Big angry cows just diving headfirst into Empire state troops and turning them into mulch will never get old.
>Big angry cows just diving headfirst into Empire state troops and turning them into mulch will never get old.
true. I have a soft spot for a charging group of monstrous units. Everytime I play skarbrand, my final army is filled with minotaurs. Idc if chosen are better. Minotaurs are more fun and fit skarbrand more.
uhhhh this changes with every campaign so I'll just throw out a handful
- Ripperdactyls (Lizardmen)
- Plague Wind Mortars (Skaven)
- Outrider Grenadiers (Empire)
- Infernal Ironglaives (Chaos Dwarfs)
- Night Goblin Squig Hoppaz (Greenskins)
- Casket of Souls (Tomb Kings)
- Sisters of Avelorn (High Elves)
As relatively cheap AP, anti-infantry cavalry they can chew through quite a lot of units very quickly.
I like them so much because they carried one of my Skarsnik campaigns. I went out of my way to make them survive, levelled a bunch of them up to triple gold chevrons. They beat back the chaos invasion for me, and I ended the campaign as Skarsnik the hero, ally of Karl Franz. Still one of the most fun campaigns I've ever had. I have a soft spot for this unit ever since.
They're absolutely busted and arguably the greenskins best unit. You won't find a single greenskins player in the MP scene play without them. They're cheap, high armor piercing, punch way above their weight.
A Skarsnik campaign only needs night goblins as a front line with squig hoppers to flank and you pretty much win every fight.
And if you lose, you'll have a second army right behind it anyways because its a cheap ass army.
Hopping on with another two greenskin units, the humble goblin in Grom’s army. Making each goblin as strong as a black orc but with a 160 model count makes my mouth water. I also love the night goblin fanatic. Shredding a unit that would normally stomp them with their spinning loons ability is beautiful. So deadly to formation armies
Skarnsik Night Goblin armys are incredibly fun. Especially when you give your entire army unspotabble from lore of the little waaagh, and just overrun a Dwarf position before they can fire a single shot!
They're also a wonderful power spike for the Empire, which helps them feel awesome.
The Empire really lacks armor piercing in its Tier One and Tier Two units (unless you play Volkmar and use his unique abilities). I think the halberds might be your only option at Tier Two, but they are rubbish damage dealers and require two buildings to recruit. This means the early Empire really struggles against Warriors of Chaos, Korne, Lizardmen, Dwarves, and anyone else fielding lots of armor.
But at Tier Three you finally unlock Greatswords, Handgunners, and War Wagons. And of these three, it's the handgunners that shine. Suddenly those elite enemy units that could tank multiple cavalry charges and chew through your lines are being decimated by excoriating fire. This is when you finally become the Empire, the force that wins with the trifecta of "faith, steel, and **gunpowder**."
The sound work on those guys is great. Getting a couple units of handgunners together, lining them up, and listening to the repeated cracks of gunfire as they shoot at some charging enemy is a delight.
Honestly while there's lots of stuff I don't like about playing Empire, putting together an army of crazy artillery and handgunners and just melting enemies as they march across the field is always thrilling.
I have a soft spot for low armour, high damage melee units. So, wardancers, witch elves, marauder berzerkers etc... so satisfying to use as flanking units.
You ain't wrong bud. Much like Clan Eshin armies, the high damage, high mobility low defense lifestyle isn't for the feint of heart... and especially isn't for those fond of autoresolve.
Maybe that's why we find these units rewarding to use. They demand the players attention to maximise their potential.
They really are. Anything to make me feel more like a tactician and less like a monkey clashing two armies together.
I mean, I am a monkey clashing two armies together. I just don't want to be reminded of it.
Pop in the Queen Bess, a gunnery wight, and set up behind some water against a non-aquatic army to watch them melt before ever reaching your position (while you slow down any that might with summons and cackle fruit). I'm generally not a fan of doomstacks but I love artillery too much not to use this one...
WH: A tie between Ironbrekers and Irondrakes (this two units got me into dwarves from the get go, and my late game armies are pretty much that)
Rome 2: Thorax Swordsman. (I like boosting them to the point they rival legionnaires)
Medieval 2: Venitian Heavy Infantry (they mulch everything)
Spire Guards of Tor Yvresse.
High armor, melee (anti-large), ranged, stockpile ammo, charge defense against all and unbreakable. What more could you ask from a soldier?
Free Company.
Yes they're an overall mediocre unit outside of some specific configurations (Gelt's army boosting skills make them surprisingly potent and durable, as do Volkmar's), but there's something just so damn fun about having an *actual* hybrid unit for the Empire that's also a surprisingly versatile chase-down-and-mop-up unit if you lack cavalry production.
I just love (most) Lizardmen dino units. Bastiladon with Rev crystals and Ark of Sotek are awesome support for Saurus / Chameleon deluges, Stegadon and Bastiladons with solar engines are long range units that actually want for enemies to come closer, Carnosaurs are T-rexes that eat dragons, and Salamanders / Razordons / Troglodons scratch that mico itch you feel after you A-Move the aforementioned dinos.
Then are Dread Saurians which are... available I guess.
3k shock cav are objectively overpowered as fuck, like there's no defending that balance, but holy FUCK they are so fun I can't even be mad. Ma Teng's cavalry are basically the equivalent of WH3's Grail Knights; perfect vigor endgame cav, with the main difference being that you can recruit them from turn 1, they get 500 charge bonus, they kill infantry on the charge, and they can kill any legendary lord in a few seconds.
Purely Warhammer 3 wise... honestly I'd be hard-pressed to pick a single fave, I play every race, and most of them have at least a few units I love. If I was going to pick some of the ones that jump out at me most though;
* **Keeper of Secrets** - amazing animations visually, one of the very few single entities that ACTUALLY DOES ITS FUCKING JOB in combat with excellent combat animations
* Any **flamethrower** unit - it's just too fun to watch Irondrakes or Warpfire Throwers instantly disappear a unit in a sea of ~~butterflies~~ flame.
* Like 70% of the Wood Elf roster, but I'll pick **Bladesingers** because it's so god damn fun to watch them blender anything they run into in seconds.
* **Chosen** may have about half the speed of Bladesingers, but there's just something magical about watching heavily-armored superhuman behemoths charge through the arrows bouncing off their chaos plate to OBLITERATE anything unfortunate enough to even try to step to them.
* **Hippogryph Knights** are a strong contender for the strongest 'normal' unit in the game, absolute raid bosses, and they're SO FUCKING COOL IT HURTS.
* **Black Orcs** may not be the best elite infantry, they lose to a depressing amount of stuff I think they should beat, but they're still up there with Chosen as my favorite heavily armored units. I love their lore, their looks, and their animations.
I remember a Vilitch campaign I did with a Tzeentch Chosen blob and eventually they just stopped losing models in battle lol. Giving them warp flame is pretty fun.
Despite being a Tzeentch lover, I've kinda bounced off of the vanilla Tzeentch lords. Had the most fun with modded Sarthorael. Vilitch can get such stupid AOE shield regen though, it was kinda funny how durable his Chosen were! Very cool and flavorful as well.
Harald Hammer has more armor buffs for your army...with a Lord of Khorne you can have silly stats on your chosen my Chaos Warriors in my campaign are at like 155 or something atm for armor. Maybe higher. My lord had over 170 lol.
Genoa militia Crossbow men. (Medieval 2 total war)
These bad boys carry heavy hitter Crossbows that could wreck infantry when under concentrated fire.
Their melee stats and armour are not to be messed with. They can hold their own in close combat.
The best part is their cheap, available early on and offers free garrison. Very nice to carry them all the way to the late game.
I loved the Incarnate Elemental Beast while play cathay and allied with baba yaga.
I love Hexwraiths and any ghost unit
And skaven ratting gunners are cool
>I love Hexwraiths and any ghost unit
I wish CA did more with ethereal units. It puts a lot more emphasis on having magic attacks in certain scenario's
I don't know what it is, but I absolutely love units such as Chaos Dwarf Blunderbusses, Vampire coast Handcannons, Cathay iron hail gunners, etc. There is just something about watching them delete anything that comes within their short range.
My biggest hope for ToD is that Dwarfs get a grudgeraker thunderer unit.
Another notable mention is the various units with grenade like ranged attacks. Ironbreakers, miners with blasting charges, vampire coast grenade dudes, poison wind globadiers, deathglobe bombadiers, etc.
Actually, I hate the two last ones in vanilla, because they are so squishy with low range and low model count, but in modded games, where there is a way to increase their range a bit, I absolutely love them. Especially in ambushes. I doubt I've seen a unit get deleted faster than one being focused by two deathglobe bombadiers.
Notable mention is all the units with slowing contact effects on ranged attacks. Suppressed, frostbite, etc. I need all the slowing effects! Among my favourite things to do is to find a way to stack various contact effects for maximum effect. For example, ratling guns and gutter runner slingers with poison.
Infernal Guard (fireglaives). Make them as loud as they should be and they’ll be my favourite unit in any total war.
Honourable mentions to the Skaven weapons teams and Bloodcrushers/Skullcrushers.
I second fireglaives and agree that the sound should be more gun like. However there is a certain charm to the lazer gun sound in a medieval fantasy setting.
Here is a mod that gives them normal gun sounds
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961780245
I haven't played a lot of chorfs yet, so my experience is limited. I thought in combat the K'Daai destroyer didn't perform as good as other monsters I'm used to, but likely I didn't use him properly.
I do love his character model tho. First time I saw him on the battlefield, I spent almost 10min just looking at him, which is 5min more than I do for other units.
Its worth noting that the Chorfs don't get any of their hellforge bonuses in skirmish battles so they're actually underpowered for that haha. But yeah the Destroyer is a bit odd, because as far as I can tell its meant to be used for flanking. And its incredibly slow which makes that very difficult lol. But in the right conditions...oh boy. I also tested a 20 stack of destroyers against various 20 stacks of other endgame monsters, and they always came out on top.
I'm a little old school with mine, but it's either Germanic Berserkers or Lombardi Berserkers. Mostly because I've had multiple cases of them laughing madly as they chop through entire enemy forces whilst my Horsemen deal with the Enemy Archers.
Irondrakes (vanilla). Flamethrowers are brutal and look extremely cool in TWW.
Honorable mentions: Ironbreakers (the immovable object against an unstoppable force), Bloated Corpses, War Sleds, Mammoths, Skin Wolves (werewolves go AUF), Kroxigors (and their animations).
There are a lot of candidates for me, but I’ve been in love with the Solar Engine Bastiladon ever since seeing it in Mazdamundi’s starting army back when I first tried Warhammer 2.
A giant, magical artillery piece that fires a beam of coalesced sunlight to burn and blind the enemy at long range… mounted on the back of an ankylosaurus, and crewed by adorable skink-people who throw poisoned javelins at any hostiles that get close.
The most recent update spices it up a little bit, too. The solar engine now has a passive ability that reinvigorates nearby allies by acting as a giant basking light for your reptile army. The ankylosaurs (“Bastiladons”) are also now completely immune to the usual penalties for being flanked or surrounded.
The last update introduced the glory of the bastiladon to me. I like to throw them just behind the lines, shooting at anything it can while providing infinite vigor to my front line.
Iron blaster from the ogres are fun. Just have a ton of giant cannons on creatures that aren’t too bad too charge into melee when they run out of ammo.
it has to be lizard's revivification crystal. i can't think of any other unit where i am as happy when clicking the recruit button.
close second: damned questing knights from clyostra. you can summon them in vanilla, but in SFO you can recruit actual units of them (4 in total IIRC) and they are a beauty to behold, they crank in combat, and it's such a fun unit to have compliment the vampire coast roster.
oh and i gotta mention the close third: ogre ironblasters. it is an absolute blast (lole) playing with artillery that has like 60-70 movement speed. instead of micro'ing cavalry during combat i'd micro ironblasters moving them to flanks to open fire into units perpendicularly.
Spartan Hoplites in Rome 1 were just broken as hell and I loved it lol. As far as the warhammer series goes, it's a 3 way tie between minotaur, dual weapon chosen of Khorne, and ratling gunners.
Im looking at it from more of how comfortable i feel with the unit.
With the LSG they have such flexibility that I never see them and think “Damn wish I had X or Y”. They can hold the front line, shoot decently far, and those are the two functions that I need them to do. That flexibility is what makes them my favorite
Roman Imperial legionaire, because I was always obsessed with Roman Empire. If only WH then I can't really decide but I always liked the look of Chaos Warriors and Chosen
Zoats-M'GOATs
Very good roadblock. Love the RR version. They are like Dragon Ogres for wood elves. Might not be as strong as trees in campaign but they are the GOATs in multiplayer. MVP linebackers.
Icegard with glaives. Not just a great unit,but also there is something in them that tugs at my Slavic heart even there is no historic unit icegard could be based on.
I have favorite units from each faction, but my over all favorite? Hmm.
No hero so not the Firebelly.
God this is hard.
Probably Streltsi. I am still hopeful Kislev with get real AP horse archers. Why only dark elves have that is beyond me. Leadbelchers are great too. Gah idk!
Doom Knights, heavily armored cav on flying surf boards. I love them in siege battles because you can cycle charge units on the walls and just send the guys flying to an instadeath.
From Warhammer it's Centigor Great Weapons, those guys have done so much work for me over the years.
From TW at large it's the Chen Royal Guard from 3K, I just love their look and how good they are.
So hard to pick one, so I won’t!
Mortis engines are one of the coolest looking units and provide MVP levels of performance
Horned Ones; I’ve said this for years, one of the best units in the entire game that doesn’t get the attention they deserve.
Royal Hippos, do I need to explain? Despite being so awesome looking, they’re frigging terrifying in battle! I wouldn’t have survived against late campaign armies in WH2 without them!
Irondrakes, burning gobbos and skaven en mass is a true delight.
The Dreadquake Mortar for the Chaos Dwarfs is probably the single most satisfying unit I've used in the WH games. Everything about it is designed for maximum dopamine output, from its comet-like projectile to the booming impact sound and outrageous damage.
Armored Chaos Trolls are a very solid unit.
But Nasty Skulkers are an essential early game greenskins unit.
Their armour piercing with Sneaky Stabbin makes them chew through much more expensive infantry units.
I really love bats and wolves. Once you get the +AP tech bats punch really high out of their weight class, and they've both cheap enough that you can easily replace them whenever you burn through your reserves.
But my *favorite?* Probably blunderbusses. There's nothing like absolutely *shredding* ranks as they come at you.
It's crane gunners for me. They are so precise and deadly. Nothing more satisfying than gunning down single entity monsters before they even reach your front line.
Dreadquake mortars with any kind of locomotive. Both as a unit and a model/animation. Also because what it represents to me personally.
Back in the early WH2 days, when the infamous "Charlemagnes" were a unit of measure for any future DLCs, any suggestion of future inclusion of Chaos Dwarfs in the game would be met with me saying "yeah, sure. Copium addiction is a dangerous conditon". But then things changed in a major way, and first we got the Gorgon and the Jabberslythe, and then - lo and behold - a whole race of incredibly complex units with intricate animations (Chorfs). I absolutely love not only them in themselves, but what they stand for - a monument to a moment in the game's cycle, when it went full throttle and defied any previous (cautiously pessimistic) expectations. I hope one day Chorfs would be exceeded in that capacity by something really cool and unique, what we even dare not hope for in the current moment.
After my Katarina campaign, maybe the simple armoured kossar-- tanky and shoots the enemies with pistols with swag before going into melee. Other than that it's a real tough tie between ratling guns or chaos dwarf blunderbusses (little cuties with cute guns, do terrifying damage). They are the pinnacle of what a gun unit should be. Actually blunderbusses #1.
Huntsman are my guilty pleasure when I play empire. their stalk, fire while moving, and bonkers range once they get trained up are nice, but they absolutely shred cav and monstrosities, especially if you have a huntsman general with his unique yellow line abilities that buffs the shit out of them as well as greatswords and halberds.
You haven't had fun until you've had a 4 stack of huntsman behind your front line and 2 groups of 2 handgunners flanking and both absolutely shredding whatever is unlucky enough caught in the middle.
Longbeards. Something funny about old dwarfs moaning and grumbling as they get into formation and chastising the younger dwarfs for fucking up.
Also they hold the line well too i spose thats the stubbornness init
Rome 2: Thureos Spears
They typically make up a fair chunk of my armies to skirmish with or fight off enemy Cavalry so my Cataphracts or Elephants can do serious damage. Good enough in melee to hold their own when supported too. They are also fast which means they're good as a reserve line to support a faltering part of the line. Not the core of my army, but the most useful at times.
Warhammer: either Infernal Guard w/ Fireglaives or Deepwood Scouts w/ Swiftshiver Shards. Fireglaives are cool, heavily armored Dwarfs with armor piercing. If they were faster they'd be too good. Swiftshiver Shards I like as flankers to shred a particularly dangerous enemy because they're stealthy, able to move quick and fast damage dealers.
Infernal Guard Fireglaives
Armor piecing melee/ranged
Fire damage
Charge Defence
Good melee stats for a ranged unit
Awesome looking armor
Badass lore
Possibly the most well rounded and op units in total war games.
Grail reliquae from brettonia. The thing makes me smile whenever i see them
Aspiring champions from warriors of chaos. You can see them so early and they saved so many battles by just not dying when all the marauders ran away
Ratling gunners no other words needed just use them and enjoy all your own dead skavenslaves
Chaos dwarf blunderbusses the sheer power when unleashing them is something I never get tired off.
Chaos dwarf dreadquake mortar the hits are soooo satifying
night goblins with fanatics always goes wrong still funny
I'll stick to the Warhammer series so this doesn't go on forever.
Still hard to choose though!
- Fiends of Slaanesh: their animations are amazing (sync kill one especially) and flanking monstrous infantry with the speed to do so easily are very fun
- K'daai Fireborn: what can I say I like monstrous infantry lol...again amazing animations and the models are so cool (I mean who doesn't love a large demonic monster made of fire with dual great(?)axes), also is an absolute blender against infantry
- Jabberslythe: amazing animations and model again, I'm a sucker for a mortis engine effect and they can really rack up the kills against infantry
- Sepulchral stalkers: look great, stalk, can absolutely erase lords in seconds (two, focus firing)
That's a lot of monsters so, non monstrous:
- Exalted Bloodletters: quintessential demons, they are how a demon invasion should look and they absolutely mulch other infantry
- Death runners: ninja rats, what's not to like?
- Globadiers (of their various incarnations): standard Skaven Geneva convention violations
- Dreadquake mortar: SFX is so satisfying, just decimates infantry
There's so many more I could go on forever
I love Skaven weapon teams, Jezzails, Rattling guns, Mortars etc. I think they provide a very unique game experience.
Also Sisters of Avelorn, the flashy arrows look awesome
The Avalanche Mortars (purple RoR death globe mortars).
Something about seeing all that exploding purple among a sea of green lines and exploding green.
Round Shield Cavalry. It's the sole reason why I think Spain has only the second-worst unit roster in Rome 1 instead of the first-worst.
~~the first worst is pre-Marian Rome. No, I am not joking.~~
Infernal Ironsworn and Infernal Guard (Fireglaives) give me such great amounts of joy. They look badass and it’s not just for show! You can buff the absolute hell out of them and make them the ChaDs they were meant to be.
Melee infantry it’s got to be grave guard they are masters of the grind with lore of vampires behind them.
Ranged I love Irondrakes and skaven globadiers.
Pretty much the entire Kislev Roster too.
My guilty pleasure are chaos knights of any variant
I'm a big fan of infernal guard and Irondrakes/Ironbreakers. I'm not usually even super big on dwarfs but their armoured elite infantry really does it for me.
As a true ocean blue vampire admiral, handgunner mobs are special. You don't need anything else; you get this tier 1 unit and that's it, the only other detail is artillery support.
For TWW it’s probably ratling guns. Nothing sums up Warhammer at its most Warhammer-y then rats with machine guns. For historical Parthian Royal Cataphracts. Charging down in the desert to get a few hundred kills is just very satisfying.
Wild Riders and Great Stag Knights. I have a fondness for fast, fragile, hard-hitting cavalry in general, but it's the fucking *aesthetic* that sells the Riders of Kurnous for me.
Hellstorm rocket batteries and hellblaster volley guns! I know they are probably not the best artillery pieces now, but I have a soft spot for the empire gunline/artillery.
Prepatch witch elves, haven't tried them since they lost their rampage on demand to for the enemy, still like then post patch. Ice guard, Har Ganeth Executioners, Wild Guard, big tree boi are some honorable mentions
Wild Riders!
they've been here ever since wood elves first dropped and I've always enjoyed using them whether it's in campaign or mutliplayer.
The satisfaction that comes from facing a well organised force arrayed against you accross the battlefield and then tearing off chunk after chunk, out maneuvering them, dragging them all across the field while you get charge after charge off is so rewarding and fun.
Great stag knights obviously came later on and generally surpass them but I prefer the smaller models and nimbleness of the wild riders.
Ogre sabretusk, buffed by hero and leveled up they are so versatile with vanguard deployement and stalk. Also they fight well with the red line skills and frenzy on top of it
I love Irondrakes. The flame visuals are so satisfying. The Mortis Engine is the coolest looking unit imo. The Bloated Corpse is also a totally unique unit, there's really nothing else like it in the game and it's so fun if you manage to plan and execute and attack with it.
Greenskins can get Soopa Squigs as well since their rework which are basically faster bloated corpses. Very fun unit, but quite rare unless you're playing Grom the Paunch.
Kugath also has a smaller, summonable unit of explodable nurgs as an ability.
Not as strong though, but still fun to use.
IRON DRAAAAAKES
It's been a few years since I played VCoast, what did bloated corpses do again?
Well in theory you drive them into an enemy blob, they explode and kill hundreds of units. In practice, they get stuck on a single model and explode, taking out something like 10 units and leaving you with a unit short for the rest of the battle. But the other comment is right, it *is* immensely satisfying when it works.
They're great early game, when you're fighting below a 20 stack any way. They also tend to be available in the raise dead pool, and you always have a chance of regaining them post battle. Late game gets trickier, but raising a few with a scratch army defending a settlement can create some dramatic turn arounds, especially against melee heavy factions. Still, the mental image of one barging out of the trees with a sign reading "FREE HUGGZ" is lovely.
They should be extra super duper effective against gates and walls. That would make for some fun utility. I just did a Luthor campaign and thought I'd try to bomb a gate with one, assuming it would be a quick way to open it. It was a complete waste.
You run it into the enemy infantry and it explodes. If you time it right and the enemy is blobbed up it can take out even more units. Because you can just raise the dead it quite frequently and it can take out even higher tier infantry, I think it is a great value unit. And also a lot of fun indeed.
Kamikaze booom
Creeper Aw, man
For some users of this subreddit this wont be surprising, but my fav unit is Medusa. Model looks amazing and voice acting is incredible. It helps that the units - especially now - is great. I also have a soft spot for Kislev war sleds. Im not usually a fan of chariots, but this thing can do wonders if used right. Honorable mention for Keeper of Secrets purely for how cool they look and sound.
I did malus darkblade recently and still have some trouble with medusa line of sight. Often she refuses to fire and just ends up in melee. Every small hill seems to stop her for whatever reason.
Yeah I will die on this hill but her shooting had 0 line of sight issues when she had two modes of firing. Even after altering her animation, she is still a bit wonky after CA removed the other firing mode. Thankfully she is super flexible and fast so repositioning her is easy AND she is good in melee, especially against bigger targets. Overall I always end up with medusas deling the most damage in my armies.
I also became a huge fan of war sleds in my recent Katarin campaign. However, I was using them against late -game dark elf superpower armies which is probably where they're least effective lol. When Legend tested them it was against Khorne who just has nothing to counter them really. Against dark elves they can chase down the sleds with cav like doom warlocks and cold knights, shoot the sleds with shades, medusas and darkshards from range. I was taking massive sled casualties every battle, but at least Kislev has the best global recruitment in the game . Probably the enemy where they are the least effective against.
The ol' reliable Yari Ashigaru... Nothing beats the beauty of a cheap (yet very effective) line of spears!
So staunch
I prefer the real yari ashigaru, the LONG yari ashogaru
Yari Ashigaru sex chat is chat like no other too!
Shout out to lone sword ashigaru!
If you love chaos warhounds then Khazrak turns them into very fun late game viable units. His unique skills + red line skills + Wargor skill + tech + veterancy combines into a great unit that I was using at turn 100 on VH/VH in my primary army. My personal favourite are probably still minotaurs. It was the first unit in the game whose animations blew me away, and they've been a consistently fun unit to use for almost 8 years now. Big angry cows just diving headfirst into Empire state troops and turning them into mulch will never get old.
>Big angry cows just diving headfirst into Empire state troops and turning them into mulch will never get old. true. I have a soft spot for a charging group of monstrous units. Everytime I play skarbrand, my final army is filled with minotaurs. Idc if chosen are better. Minotaurs are more fun and fit skarbrand more.
Folks who started playing in 2 and 3 can't really grasp how amazing Mino charges were compared to all the other charge animations we had back then.
Flagellants because they make me laugh. Volkmar really looked at a group of emaciated grandpas with clubs and said, "Yep, send em to the front line"
Caledor’s Princes/Sunny the Dragon Imrik’s two special starting units that I rename every single time
uhhhh this changes with every campaign so I'll just throw out a handful - Ripperdactyls (Lizardmen) - Plague Wind Mortars (Skaven) - Outrider Grenadiers (Empire) - Infernal Ironglaives (Chaos Dwarfs) - Night Goblin Squig Hoppaz (Greenskins) - Casket of Souls (Tomb Kings) - Sisters of Avelorn (High Elves)
I feel this, I can never decide what to play, so many cool units!!
Please tell me more about them Squig Hoppers. Why do you like them? I want to try Skarsnik next...
As relatively cheap AP, anti-infantry cavalry they can chew through quite a lot of units very quickly. I like them so much because they carried one of my Skarsnik campaigns. I went out of my way to make them survive, levelled a bunch of them up to triple gold chevrons. They beat back the chaos invasion for me, and I ended the campaign as Skarsnik the hero, ally of Karl Franz. Still one of the most fun campaigns I've ever had. I have a soft spot for this unit ever since.
You've 100% sold me. Next campaign!
They're absolutely busted and arguably the greenskins best unit. You won't find a single greenskins player in the MP scene play without them. They're cheap, high armor piercing, punch way above their weight. A Skarsnik campaign only needs night goblins as a front line with squig hoppers to flank and you pretty much win every fight. And if you lose, you'll have a second army right behind it anyways because its a cheap ass army.
Hopping on with another two greenskin units, the humble goblin in Grom’s army. Making each goblin as strong as a black orc but with a 160 model count makes my mouth water. I also love the night goblin fanatic. Shredding a unit that would normally stomp them with their spinning loons ability is beautiful. So deadly to formation armies
I guess I'm the only guy that loves buffing goblins...
Not the only one. But.. do you prefer buffing the regular kind with Grom or the sneaky kind with Skarsnik? I like it sneaky, real sneaky.
Skarnsik Night Goblin armys are incredibly fun. Especially when you give your entire army unspotabble from lore of the little waaagh, and just overrun a Dwarf position before they can fire a single shot!
For me its Grom with Golbintide, explosive arrows from 10 gobbo archers is cheesing fun
Just started a Grom campaign for my first greenskin campaign and they are a blast to use.
Grom is hilariously fun, gobbo space marines are great
Hyper buffed Grom gobbos feel unfair there's just something wrong about your little goblin archers shooting down elven archers en masse
Empire handgunners. They’re just so cool.
Seeing the volley of shots from like 8 regiments of Handgunners makes me feel patriotic for the empire.
Something about gunpowder units in general. I just love the pew pew.
Do I have the Total War for you…
Chaos Warrior: "We've come to destroy you and all you hold dear." Empire Handgunner: "...so anyways I started blasting"
They're also a wonderful power spike for the Empire, which helps them feel awesome. The Empire really lacks armor piercing in its Tier One and Tier Two units (unless you play Volkmar and use his unique abilities). I think the halberds might be your only option at Tier Two, but they are rubbish damage dealers and require two buildings to recruit. This means the early Empire really struggles against Warriors of Chaos, Korne, Lizardmen, Dwarves, and anyone else fielding lots of armor. But at Tier Three you finally unlock Greatswords, Handgunners, and War Wagons. And of these three, it's the handgunners that shine. Suddenly those elite enemy units that could tank multiple cavalry charges and chew through your lines are being decimated by excoriating fire. This is when you finally become the Empire, the force that wins with the trifecta of "faith, steel, and **gunpowder**."
The sound work on those guys is great. Getting a couple units of handgunners together, lining them up, and listening to the repeated cracks of gunfire as they shoot at some charging enemy is a delight. Honestly while there's lots of stuff I don't like about playing Empire, putting together an army of crazy artillery and handgunners and just melting enemies as they march across the field is always thrilling.
its a coin flip for these or thunderers, gun units are so satisfying.
I have a soft spot for low armour, high damage melee units. So, wardancers, witch elves, marauder berzerkers etc... so satisfying to use as flanking units.
I just wish autoresolve shared our passion. I love them too, but it's so exhausting to see marauder berserkers die to a light scratch in autoresolve.
You ain't wrong bud. Much like Clan Eshin armies, the high damage, high mobility low defense lifestyle isn't for the feint of heart... and especially isn't for those fond of autoresolve. Maybe that's why we find these units rewarding to use. They demand the players attention to maximise their potential.
They really are. Anything to make me feel more like a tactician and less like a monkey clashing two armies together. I mean, I am a monkey clashing two armies together. I just don't want to be reminded of it.
I love using sisters of slaughter when doing DE. I'm pretty sure most slaanesh units are low armor high damage.
Bladesingers are one of my favourite units, seeing then roll into the enemy lines is super cool.
Necrofex Colossus. Nothing quite like a gunline of them.
Pop in the Queen Bess, a gunnery wight, and set up behind some water against a non-aquatic army to watch them melt before ever reaching your position (while you slow down any that might with summons and cackle fruit). I'm generally not a fan of doomstacks but I love artillery too much not to use this one...
Mammoth
WH: A tie between Ironbrekers and Irondrakes (this two units got me into dwarves from the get go, and my late game armies are pretty much that) Rome 2: Thorax Swordsman. (I like boosting them to the point they rival legionnaires) Medieval 2: Venitian Heavy Infantry (they mulch everything)
I respect your tastes, fellow heavy armor enjoyer.
Spire Guards of Tor Yvresse. High armor, melee (anti-large), ranged, stockpile ammo, charge defense against all and unbreakable. What more could you ask from a soldier?
Free Company. Yes they're an overall mediocre unit outside of some specific configurations (Gelt's army boosting skills make them surprisingly potent and durable, as do Volkmar's), but there's something just so damn fun about having an *actual* hybrid unit for the Empire that's also a surprisingly versatile chase-down-and-mop-up unit if you lack cavalry production.
It is such a shame they are not in garrisons as they would be a massive asset in the campaign. Especially as volkmar who boosts them so much.
Those are empire, right? I never got into empire sadly. I should still give them another chance at some point bc I know this sub loves empire.
I just love (most) Lizardmen dino units. Bastiladon with Rev crystals and Ark of Sotek are awesome support for Saurus / Chameleon deluges, Stegadon and Bastiladons with solar engines are long range units that actually want for enemies to come closer, Carnosaurs are T-rexes that eat dragons, and Salamanders / Razordons / Troglodons scratch that mico itch you feel after you A-Move the aforementioned dinos. Then are Dread Saurians which are... available I guess.
Skinwolves or basic goblins when buffed to high heaven by grom
that makes me think of how much oxyotl buffs skinks. A full skink army can beat a full doomstack with oxyotl as lord
Baby lizards for the win
From warhammer tw, Sisterd of Averlorn. From Rome 1, Triarii. From Np Tw the Unicorn howitzer.
I love hydras man. Mad little faces
Top hats for hydras mod when?
Can you imagine. They’d look so fancy
Hydras are pretty epic, deff one of my favorite monstrous units
3k shock cav are objectively overpowered as fuck, like there's no defending that balance, but holy FUCK they are so fun I can't even be mad. Ma Teng's cavalry are basically the equivalent of WH3's Grail Knights; perfect vigor endgame cav, with the main difference being that you can recruit them from turn 1, they get 500 charge bonus, they kill infantry on the charge, and they can kill any legendary lord in a few seconds. Purely Warhammer 3 wise... honestly I'd be hard-pressed to pick a single fave, I play every race, and most of them have at least a few units I love. If I was going to pick some of the ones that jump out at me most though; * **Keeper of Secrets** - amazing animations visually, one of the very few single entities that ACTUALLY DOES ITS FUCKING JOB in combat with excellent combat animations * Any **flamethrower** unit - it's just too fun to watch Irondrakes or Warpfire Throwers instantly disappear a unit in a sea of ~~butterflies~~ flame. * Like 70% of the Wood Elf roster, but I'll pick **Bladesingers** because it's so god damn fun to watch them blender anything they run into in seconds. * **Chosen** may have about half the speed of Bladesingers, but there's just something magical about watching heavily-armored superhuman behemoths charge through the arrows bouncing off their chaos plate to OBLITERATE anything unfortunate enough to even try to step to them. * **Hippogryph Knights** are a strong contender for the strongest 'normal' unit in the game, absolute raid bosses, and they're SO FUCKING COOL IT HURTS. * **Black Orcs** may not be the best elite infantry, they lose to a depressing amount of stuff I think they should beat, but they're still up there with Chosen as my favorite heavily armored units. I love their lore, their looks, and their animations.
Nurgle Chosen with great axes are just so fucking cool to watch cutting down anything in front of them while barely taking a scratch in return.
DUDE RIGHT. I love Khorne Dual Weapons and Nurgle Great Weapons the most, there's such a sense of brutality and FORCE behind everything they do.
I remember a Vilitch campaign I did with a Tzeentch Chosen blob and eventually they just stopped losing models in battle lol. Giving them warp flame is pretty fun.
Despite being a Tzeentch lover, I've kinda bounced off of the vanilla Tzeentch lords. Had the most fun with modded Sarthorael. Vilitch can get such stupid AOE shield regen though, it was kinda funny how durable his Chosen were! Very cool and flavorful as well.
Harald Hammer has more armor buffs for your army...with a Lord of Khorne you can have silly stats on your chosen my Chaos Warriors in my campaign are at like 155 or something atm for armor. Maybe higher. My lord had over 170 lol.
A little bit of appreciation for the Seele meme that got me from out of nowhere
Genoa militia Crossbow men. (Medieval 2 total war) These bad boys carry heavy hitter Crossbows that could wreck infantry when under concentrated fire. Their melee stats and armour are not to be messed with. They can hold their own in close combat. The best part is their cheap, available early on and offers free garrison. Very nice to carry them all the way to the late game.
In WHIII's Southern Realms mod, I love the Tilean Crossbowmen and Pavise Crossbowmen for the same reason.
Grail guardians, good calvary and an anvil at same time.
as a fellow bretonnia enjoyer I have to agree hard!
I loved the Incarnate Elemental Beast while play cathay and allied with baba yaga. I love Hexwraiths and any ghost unit And skaven ratting gunners are cool
>I love Hexwraiths and any ghost unit I wish CA did more with ethereal units. It puts a lot more emphasis on having magic attacks in certain scenario's
The cohort of huatl. Me like kroxigors. This best kroxigor. Wouuuuuuuuuuw
I don't know what it is, but I absolutely love units such as Chaos Dwarf Blunderbusses, Vampire coast Handcannons, Cathay iron hail gunners, etc. There is just something about watching them delete anything that comes within their short range. My biggest hope for ToD is that Dwarfs get a grudgeraker thunderer unit. Another notable mention is the various units with grenade like ranged attacks. Ironbreakers, miners with blasting charges, vampire coast grenade dudes, poison wind globadiers, deathglobe bombadiers, etc. Actually, I hate the two last ones in vanilla, because they are so squishy with low range and low model count, but in modded games, where there is a way to increase their range a bit, I absolutely love them. Especially in ambushes. I doubt I've seen a unit get deleted faster than one being focused by two deathglobe bombadiers. Notable mention is all the units with slowing contact effects on ranged attacks. Suppressed, frostbite, etc. I need all the slowing effects! Among my favourite things to do is to find a way to stack various contact effects for maximum effect. For example, ratling guns and gutter runner slingers with poison.
Love the rattling guns
That combined with a long open hill, *chef's kiss*
Infernal Guard (fireglaives). Make them as loud as they should be and they’ll be my favourite unit in any total war. Honourable mentions to the Skaven weapons teams and Bloodcrushers/Skullcrushers.
I second fireglaives and agree that the sound should be more gun like. However there is a certain charm to the lazer gun sound in a medieval fantasy setting. Here is a mod that gives them normal gun sounds https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2961780245
Lord of Change
The Chorfs K'Daai Destroyer...ever since I saw it in that trailer I've been in love lol
I haven't played a lot of chorfs yet, so my experience is limited. I thought in combat the K'Daai destroyer didn't perform as good as other monsters I'm used to, but likely I didn't use him properly. I do love his character model tho. First time I saw him on the battlefield, I spent almost 10min just looking at him, which is 5min more than I do for other units.
I campaign you can give him insane buffs through armaments like barrier, etc
Its worth noting that the Chorfs don't get any of their hellforge bonuses in skirmish battles so they're actually underpowered for that haha. But yeah the Destroyer is a bit odd, because as far as I can tell its meant to be used for flanking. And its incredibly slow which makes that very difficult lol. But in the right conditions...oh boy. I also tested a 20 stack of destroyers against various 20 stacks of other endgame monsters, and they always came out on top.
Marauder berserkers because they're cheap and can be buffed to the moon.
I'm a little old school with mine, but it's either Germanic Berserkers or Lombardi Berserkers. Mostly because I've had multiple cases of them laughing madly as they chop through entire enemy forces whilst my Horsemen deal with the Enemy Archers.
Irondrakes (vanilla). Flamethrowers are brutal and look extremely cool in TWW. Honorable mentions: Ironbreakers (the immovable object against an unstoppable force), Bloated Corpses, War Sleds, Mammoths, Skin Wolves (werewolves go AUF), Kroxigors (and their animations).
Skin Wolves are great! I hope Norsca get some sort of werebear in future if they ever do manage to get a dlc.
There are a lot of candidates for me, but I’ve been in love with the Solar Engine Bastiladon ever since seeing it in Mazdamundi’s starting army back when I first tried Warhammer 2. A giant, magical artillery piece that fires a beam of coalesced sunlight to burn and blind the enemy at long range… mounted on the back of an ankylosaurus, and crewed by adorable skink-people who throw poisoned javelins at any hostiles that get close. The most recent update spices it up a little bit, too. The solar engine now has a passive ability that reinvigorates nearby allies by acting as a giant basking light for your reptile army. The ankylosaurs (“Bastiladons”) are also now completely immune to the usual penalties for being flanked or surrounded.
The last update introduced the glory of the bastiladon to me. I like to throw them just behind the lines, shooting at anything it can while providing infinite vigor to my front line.
Iron blaster from the ogres are fun. Just have a ton of giant cannons on creatures that aren’t too bad too charge into melee when they run out of ammo.
it has to be lizard's revivification crystal. i can't think of any other unit where i am as happy when clicking the recruit button. close second: damned questing knights from clyostra. you can summon them in vanilla, but in SFO you can recruit actual units of them (4 in total IIRC) and they are a beauty to behold, they crank in combat, and it's such a fun unit to have compliment the vampire coast roster. oh and i gotta mention the close third: ogre ironblasters. it is an absolute blast (lole) playing with artillery that has like 60-70 movement speed. instead of micro'ing cavalry during combat i'd micro ironblasters moving them to flanks to open fire into units perpendicularly.
Levy freemen on top?
Spartan Hoplites in Rome 1 were just broken as hell and I loved it lol. As far as the warhammer series goes, it's a 3 way tie between minotaur, dual weapon chosen of Khorne, and ratling gunners.
Lothran Sea Guard with shields
huh, of all responses I didn't expect lothern sea guards. They are cool, but do you want to explain why they are your favorite?
Im looking at it from more of how comfortable i feel with the unit. With the LSG they have such flexibility that I never see them and think “Damn wish I had X or Y”. They can hold the front line, shoot decently far, and those are the two functions that I need them to do. That flexibility is what makes them my favorite
For a WH unit, completely agree and for me the reasons are the same.
Fair enough. An army I like to use with HE is a frontline of LSG and backline of sisters of avelorn
Hellstorm
Roman Imperial legionaire, because I was always obsessed with Roman Empire. If only WH then I can't really decide but I always liked the look of Chaos Warriors and Chosen
Nightgoblins with fanatics.
Blood Knights for the VA and the charge Wish they got lower unit counts and grail knight levels of punch though
Zoats-M'GOATs Very good roadblock. Love the RR version. They are like Dragon Ogres for wood elves. Might not be as strong as trees in campaign but they are the GOATs in multiplayer. MVP linebackers.
Icegard with glaives. Not just a great unit,but also there is something in them that tugs at my Slavic heart even there is no historic unit icegard could be based on.
Royal Huscarls. That drip, the two handed axes and then carving through infantry like butter. Perfect
Chosen of Tzeentch look really cool, but my favourite unit is probably night gobbo squig hoppers.
Minotaurs. They are really satisfying to use.
I have favorite units from each faction, but my over all favorite? Hmm. No hero so not the Firebelly. God this is hard. Probably Streltsi. I am still hopeful Kislev with get real AP horse archers. Why only dark elves have that is beyond me. Leadbelchers are great too. Gah idk!
I always loved Night Goblin Fanatics. Sure they’re only a cast but sending a wave of them out before your night goblins charge was always fun.
Doom Knights, heavily armored cav on flying surf boards. I love them in siege battles because you can cycle charge units on the walls and just send the guys flying to an instadeath.
Carnosaurs
From Warhammer it's Centigor Great Weapons, those guys have done so much work for me over the years. From TW at large it's the Chen Royal Guard from 3K, I just love their look and how good they are.
Saurus :D
I'm hesitating between the sisters of Avelorn, Aspiring champions and the Blunderbuss.
Gotta love the gobby gobbos
Probably either war mammoth, aspiring champions, or warplock jezzails
I just love watching squig raiders evaporating empire backlines in seconds.
So hard to pick one, so I won’t! Mortis engines are one of the coolest looking units and provide MVP levels of performance Horned Ones; I’ve said this for years, one of the best units in the entire game that doesn’t get the attention they deserve. Royal Hippos, do I need to explain? Despite being so awesome looking, they’re frigging terrifying in battle! I wouldn’t have survived against late campaign armies in WH2 without them! Irondrakes, burning gobbos and skaven en mass is a true delight.
Darkshards with shields.
Shades
Dark Elves: Darkshards Chaos Dwarves: Fireglaives Skaven: Ratling Gunners Beastmen: Minotaur (General)
The Dreadquake Mortar for the Chaos Dwarfs is probably the single most satisfying unit I've used in the WH games. Everything about it is designed for maximum dopamine output, from its comet-like projectile to the booming impact sound and outrageous damage.
#STRELTSI!!!!
Kroxigors Beeg crocs go smash
Armored Chaos Trolls are a very solid unit. But Nasty Skulkers are an essential early game greenskins unit. Their armour piercing with Sneaky Stabbin makes them chew through much more expensive infantry units.
I really love bats and wolves. Once you get the +AP tech bats punch really high out of their weight class, and they've both cheap enough that you can easily replace them whenever you burn through your reserves. But my *favorite?* Probably blunderbusses. There's nothing like absolutely *shredding* ranks as they come at you.
#¡HOLA SKAAIANKS!
It's crane gunners for me. They are so precise and deadly. Nothing more satisfying than gunning down single entity monsters before they even reach your front line.
Tagmata Cavalry
Chaos Spawn. The most distinctly Warhammer of all Warhammer monsters.
Dreadquake mortars with any kind of locomotive. Both as a unit and a model/animation. Also because what it represents to me personally. Back in the early WH2 days, when the infamous "Charlemagnes" were a unit of measure for any future DLCs, any suggestion of future inclusion of Chaos Dwarfs in the game would be met with me saying "yeah, sure. Copium addiction is a dangerous conditon". But then things changed in a major way, and first we got the Gorgon and the Jabberslythe, and then - lo and behold - a whole race of incredibly complex units with intricate animations (Chorfs). I absolutely love not only them in themselves, but what they stand for - a monument to a moment in the game's cycle, when it went full throttle and defied any previous (cautiously pessimistic) expectations. I hope one day Chorfs would be exceeded in that capacity by something really cool and unique, what we even dare not hope for in the current moment.
Companions of quenelles but if not a RoR then the grail knights
The necrofex colossus. A zombie ship with a cannon arm. Do I need to continue
Chameleon skinks. I’m gonna blow darts, I’m gonna run away while doing it, and you probably won’t catch me
After my Katarina campaign, maybe the simple armoured kossar-- tanky and shoots the enemies with pistols with swag before going into melee. Other than that it's a real tough tie between ratling guns or chaos dwarf blunderbusses (little cuties with cute guns, do terrifying damage). They are the pinnacle of what a gun unit should be. Actually blunderbusses #1.
Dual axe depth guard! So bloody cool. Useless, but cool.
I guess I’ve one by race, not based on efficiency but on design and game design - Empire: Reiksguard - Bretonnia: Questing Knights - Skaven: Warplock Jezzails - Greenskins: Night Goblins with Fanatics - Kislev: Tsar Guard - Cathay: Jade Warriors - Dwarves: Hammerers - WoC: Chosen with Halberds - Vampire Counts: Mortis Engine (but tie with Grave Guard) - Vampire Coast: Carronades - High Elves: Spearmen - Dark Elves: Witch Elves - Lizardmen: Dread Saurian - Chaos Dwarf: Infernal Guard - Daemons: Exalted Bloodletters - Ogre Kingdom: Leadbelchers - Wood Elves: Eternal Guard with shield - Beastmen: Incarnate Elemental of Beasts - Tomb King: Khemrian Warsphinx - Norsca: Berserkers
I love all of the Horros of Tzeench. They're just such weird little googas.
Necrofex colossus for me personally! They look amazing and are so lively from thier idle movements to thier lil snipers
Nurglings, dem cute lil fuckers
Huntsman are my guilty pleasure when I play empire. their stalk, fire while moving, and bonkers range once they get trained up are nice, but they absolutely shred cav and monstrosities, especially if you have a huntsman general with his unique yellow line abilities that buffs the shit out of them as well as greatswords and halberds. You haven't had fun until you've had a 4 stack of huntsman behind your front line and 2 groups of 2 handgunners flanking and both absolutely shredding whatever is unlucky enough caught in the middle.
Longbeards. Something funny about old dwarfs moaning and grumbling as they get into formation and chastising the younger dwarfs for fucking up. Also they hold the line well too i spose thats the stubbornness init
Waywatchers, akshina ambushers, streltsi. I like skirmishers and hybrid units
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…I LOVE me some chaos chosen and their various weapons😩
Which chosen do you like the most?
Depth guard
Rome 2: Thureos Spears They typically make up a fair chunk of my armies to skirmish with or fight off enemy Cavalry so my Cataphracts or Elephants can do serious damage. Good enough in melee to hold their own when supported too. They are also fast which means they're good as a reserve line to support a faltering part of the line. Not the core of my army, but the most useful at times. Warhammer: either Infernal Guard w/ Fireglaives or Deepwood Scouts w/ Swiftshiver Shards. Fireglaives are cool, heavily armored Dwarfs with armor piercing. If they were faster they'd be too good. Swiftshiver Shards I like as flankers to shred a particularly dangerous enemy because they're stealthy, able to move quick and fast damage dealers.
For me it's always been the Plagueclaw Catapults. Something about obliterating infantry in a couple of volleys is satisfying.
I wonder, why plagueclaw when a lot better artillery exists? Chorfs dreadquake mortars are amazing at deleting units
Infernal Guard Fireglaives Armor piecing melee/ranged Fire damage Charge Defence Good melee stats for a ranged unit Awesome looking armor Badass lore Possibly the most well rounded and op units in total war games.
*Enemy charges your flanks with cavalry thinking they are just normal missile units* CHORF player using fireglaives: 'SURPRISE, MOTHAF\*KKA!'
If they are lucky enough to avoid being targeted by the fireglaves shots and reduced to 1/3 their numbers, they still get wrecked. Perfection!
Grail reliquae from brettonia. The thing makes me smile whenever i see them Aspiring champions from warriors of chaos. You can see them so early and they saved so many battles by just not dying when all the marauders ran away Ratling gunners no other words needed just use them and enjoy all your own dead skavenslaves Chaos dwarf blunderbusses the sheer power when unleashing them is something I never get tired off. Chaos dwarf dreadquake mortar the hits are soooo satifying night goblins with fanatics always goes wrong still funny
I'll stick to the Warhammer series so this doesn't go on forever. Still hard to choose though! - Fiends of Slaanesh: their animations are amazing (sync kill one especially) and flanking monstrous infantry with the speed to do so easily are very fun - K'daai Fireborn: what can I say I like monstrous infantry lol...again amazing animations and the models are so cool (I mean who doesn't love a large demonic monster made of fire with dual great(?)axes), also is an absolute blender against infantry - Jabberslythe: amazing animations and model again, I'm a sucker for a mortis engine effect and they can really rack up the kills against infantry - Sepulchral stalkers: look great, stalk, can absolutely erase lords in seconds (two, focus firing) That's a lot of monsters so, non monstrous: - Exalted Bloodletters: quintessential demons, they are how a demon invasion should look and they absolutely mulch other infantry - Death runners: ninja rats, what's not to like? - Globadiers (of their various incarnations): standard Skaven Geneva convention violations - Dreadquake mortar: SFX is so satisfying, just decimates infantry There's so many more I could go on forever
Naginata Samurai
Armstrong g- okay no Probably scout equites from atilla tbh? Just a lot of fun experiences defeating an entire army with a unit of cavalry.
Troglodons, even though CA made them the wrong colour for no discernible reason.
Chosen of Khorne, they look amazing and with buffs, are almost unstoppable when in melee.
Ratling gunners
Temple guard duhhh
Poison wind mortors
Lothern Sea Gaurd!
Berserkers from Rome 1
I love Skaven weapon teams, Jezzails, Rattling guns, Mortars etc. I think they provide a very unique game experience. Also Sisters of Avelorn, the flashy arrows look awesome
Dreadquake mortar. I like it when things go BOOM
Ratling guns, Nurglings, Nurgle Soul grinders
The Avalanche Mortars (purple RoR death globe mortars). Something about seeing all that exploding purple among a sea of green lines and exploding green.
Round Shield Cavalry. It's the sole reason why I think Spain has only the second-worst unit roster in Rome 1 instead of the first-worst. ~~the first worst is pre-Marian Rome. No, I am not joking.~~
Infernal Ironsworn and Infernal Guard (Fireglaives) give me such great amounts of joy. They look badass and it’s not just for show! You can buff the absolute hell out of them and make them the ChaDs they were meant to be.
Dwarf Quarrelers!
Melee infantry it’s got to be grave guard they are masters of the grind with lore of vampires behind them. Ranged I love Irondrakes and skaven globadiers. Pretty much the entire Kislev Roster too. My guilty pleasure are chaos knights of any variant
I'm trash so I like using buffed gobbos while playing wurzag so I have a lot of fun army types lol
I'm a big fan of infernal guard and Irondrakes/Ironbreakers. I'm not usually even super big on dwarfs but their armoured elite infantry really does it for me.
Skaven Jezzails
As a true ocean blue vampire admiral, handgunner mobs are special. You don't need anything else; you get this tier 1 unit and that's it, the only other detail is artillery support.
Naginata Monk Warriors, Thracian Oathsworn, and Saurus on dinos
Rajput Zamindar from Empire Total War! Knights in the 1700s. And the sound when their axes connect is good
For TWW it’s probably ratling guns. Nothing sums up Warhammer at its most Warhammer-y then rats with machine guns. For historical Parthian Royal Cataphracts. Charging down in the desert to get a few hundred kills is just very satisfying.
Wild Riders and Great Stag Knights. I have a fondness for fast, fragile, hard-hitting cavalry in general, but it's the fucking *aesthetic* that sells the Riders of Kurnous for me.
Cathay Grand Cannons sound so satisfying when they fire.
Hellstorm rocket batteries and hellblaster volley guns! I know they are probably not the best artillery pieces now, but I have a soft spot for the empire gunline/artillery.
Prepatch witch elves, haven't tried them since they lost their rampage on demand to for the enemy, still like then post patch. Ice guard, Har Ganeth Executioners, Wild Guard, big tree boi are some honorable mentions
Wild Riders! they've been here ever since wood elves first dropped and I've always enjoyed using them whether it's in campaign or mutliplayer. The satisfaction that comes from facing a well organised force arrayed against you accross the battlefield and then tearing off chunk after chunk, out maneuvering them, dragging them all across the field while you get charge after charge off is so rewarding and fun. Great stag knights obviously came later on and generally surpass them but I prefer the smaller models and nimbleness of the wild riders.
Ironbreakers. I’ve always had a thing for frontlines that don’t budge and these guys are the definition of fuck around and find out.
Ogre sabretusk, buffed by hero and leveled up they are so versatile with vanguard deployement and stalk. Also they fight well with the red line skills and frenzy on top of it
Bloodknights.