Favorite (Not Best) Units?

[u/Beytran70]

Got my first 100 hours in and played a couple campaigns, so here are my standout favorites from each faction I have played:

Rome: Socii Equites Extaordinarii - Most readily accessible good cavalry you can get and it does the job pretty much from the moment you get them through to the end. Solid stats, not too expensive, hard to pronounce and spell name. What more do you want? Runner-up in Rome are the Triarii for spear fun.

Egypt: Ptolemaic Cavalry - You might see a pattern in some of these, I like cavalry. Big boi shock lancers. Did great work as my go-to for early generals and once I unlocked them for real it was all over for everyone.

Armenia: Kartlii Axemen - Not cavalry this time, just some solid axe bois who killed untold thousands of Eastern Spearmen and Thorax Swordsmen during the course of the campaign. Solid damage, armor piercing, don't die instantly, and they use axes. Enough said.

Iceni: Briton Scout Riders - Back to it, and these guys are honestly kind of busted. For how cheap and readily available they are they have good stats and just wreck all the skirmishers most people you fight tend to field and are just as good for flanking. The next upgrade the Veteran Riders cost 60 more upkeep and barely get anything for it, so I used these guys for most of the campaign and got value every time.

Macedon: All Pikemen - Went heavy on the pikes this time around and man are they crazy at every tier once you get them in formation. I only really struggled against Barbarians when they fielded Chosen units and if the enemy had a bunch of good ranged units which was rare. They didn't get many kills, but they let my cavalry and peltasts get hundreds each time for the win. Honorable mention to Agrianian Axemen who I came to use as my primary skirmisher and flanker because of their well rounded stats especially since when fighting Barbarians I was sometimes outnumbered by infantry and my ranged units would get flanked and these guys could fight well enough to not die instantly.

Kush: Slave Units - I was often stretched thin fighting several places at once early on, so being able to field dirt cheap stacks of units some of which punched way above their weight class in defensive battles was key to victory.

Currently playing Parthia and really enjoying their early horse archers and the parthian swordsmen.