Coolest RTS Game Unit

[MrJKapowey]

I have to give it to the Kasrkin squad from DoW. They're just dudes with armour and a selection of intersting weapons and grenades fighting off the horrors of the universe...and they're all from London to boot.

(EDIT: also, balls, I was hoping to be undert the post before last)

And they're 'ready for war' before they even leave the command building.

Mine is the Highlanders from AoE3. If you are British and get a saloon which has Highlanders as one of its random units then it will allow a mercenary heavy deck to steamroller almost anything.

 

[DominicxD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ63i9BXZSs&feature=related

This

 

[jultub]

THOR IS HERE!

Walking mecha named after the norse god of thunder, voice pretty much made to imitate the terminator himself. Did I mention the hailstorm of AA missiles and the 250mm gun barrage?

SC II top tier terran ground unit in case you didn't know

 

[Slythernite]

From Supreme Commander 2, either the

Cybran Cybranasaurus Rex

Or the Illuminate Darkenoid

 

[flamingjimmy]

You really can't beat a good phalanx line. My vote is for pretty much any pike unit.

 

[SpaceCop]

Warcraft III's ice troll mercenaries. Mohawks, backflips, throwing axes, snow puns, great attitude.

Hell, Warcraft trolls in general. "I got axe for you!"

 

[Vhite]

WOLOLOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Blitzwarp]

The Kirovs from Red Alert II. "Bombardiers to your stations!" gives me the shivers even now, and when you get a bunch of 'em together with the promotions in place they kick ASS.

 

[roger moores eyebrow]

Mobile artillery from SupCom, think it was called a Mavor or something. It took forever to build but if you did you basically won the game. Also the brawlers and phoenixs from Total Annihilation. Arm rules!

Forgot to add, almost all the units from the original DOW especially the Tau Hammerheads and stealthsuits. Used to love sending a whole army of stealthsuits into a guys base on mp, caught out so many people with that tactic.

 

[icypenguin117]

wasp throwers from the Medieval Total wars 2 Aztec expansions

They throw hives of wasps at enemies, how can they not be awesome

 

[Alssadar]

I liked the Blood Mage in Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne.
While the Blood Elves in WoW are prissy, feminine idiots, the Blood Mage was more of a scarred man, with the curse of his magic forcing him into infernal magics. The model is well prepared, and my favorite part is the idle 'laugh' animation, showing just how far the once-proud mage's sanity and need for magic has corrupted him.
The voice actor also pulled off a good job, with a good charismatic voice backed with slight tones of madness.
"My blood cries for the vengence of my people's blood, which only be repaid with twice as much blood, or three times as much blood. Like if you went to Hell, and it was full of blood, and that blood was on fire, and it was raining blood! That might be enough, but I hardly doubt it..."

 

[Sebenko]

Definetly the Monkeylord from Supreme Commander. What could possibly beat a giant robo-spider with a big FRIGGIN' laser attached to it's FRIGGIN' back!

An even gianter robo-spider?

Megalith.

Alright, it's not as cool, but I could't resist saying gianter.

Also: the tech 2 cybran destroyer. It's a ship! It's a mech! It's awesome!

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Ultra Zombie Ninja Killer Spanish Space Peasants of One Thousand Megadeths from Hell. From Age of Empires II - The Conquerors.
Imagine your everyday peasant. Cheap, toils away on the fields or chops down forests or mines something. Now include an upgrade for this peasant that makes him/her stronger then your high-level militia, while still costing next to nothing. The Spanish were fucking OP.

 

[Caspertjuhh]

Only rts i have ever played is halo wars and some LOTR rtsses from 5 years ago....

so I'll have to roll with spartans, they can mount vehicles and make them kick ass

 

[Floppertje]

Star destroyers in empire at war! c'mon, how can you NOT love ripping shit up with a fleet of star destroyers??
the zann consortium capital ships are pretty cool too...
other than that.... I guess i'd go with the overlord or the mammoth tank (generals & c&c3 respectively) the overlord let's you put on a gatling turret or prop tower, which is awesome. but the engine in C&C3 makes the mammoth just such a delight to play with!

 

[Mr Shrike]

KIROV AIRSHIP REPORTING!

 

[Shirokurou]

Kensei from Shogun: Total War.
It's a game, where 1 unit is 40-60 squad of samurai, Kensei (meaning Sword Saint) is a 1 man unit, who can slaughter whole platoons if say put on bridge.

 

[Annoying Turd]

...Almost all DoW units could be badass (maybe except for the Guardian Squad or the Cultists).

Flash Gitz and Obliterators would be my favorite ranged units; those guys melt anything in a few seconds. They are in big trouble when they get tied up in melee, though.

Khorne Berzerkers, Grey Knights, and Nobs (all fully upgraded with Power Claws and with an attached Big Mek for teleportation) pwn so much.

The most overpowered scout unit in the game is definitely the Stealth Suit squad... for reasons posters before me have outlined... and the wraith comes next

The greatest hero in the game would either be the Necron Lord or the Daemon Prince Chaos Commander. The Imperial assassin just dies too easily to be the most powerful.

The coolest standard vehicles/tanks in the game would be either the leman russ (or the ork version), the fire prism, or the basilisk artillery. The Tau has an overpowered Kroot Gorilla thing... but fortunately most players pass that in order to get Hammerhead tanks.

Finally, the relic unit that has the highest pwnage factor would be the Baneblade supertank; if you can train that you've already won as the imperial guard. Even though the necron monolith is way more powerful/overpowered than the tank, especially on those smaller duel maps, the tank simply screams awesome as it easily holds back/annihilates your enemies' entire army, with the help of a couple of leman russ tanks/basilisks with the expensive artillery shell.

 

[teebeeohh]

I have to give it to the Kasrkin squad from DoW. They're just dudes with armour and a selection of intersting weapons and grenades fighting off the horrors of the universe...and they're all from London to boot.

(EDIT: also, balls, I was hoping to be undert the post before last)

actually they are elite soldiers, trained to be as perfect a warrior as humanly possible(Space marines are not quite human, so they don't count).

Warp spiders from the DaW games. I just live those guys, they have the balls to shoot nets roughly 38000 years in the future.

 

[ParanoidEngineer]

The Dawn of War Nightbringer.
Come on guys, he's the FUCKING GRIM REAPER!
and invinceable