Coolest RTS Game Unit

[vviki]

For me it's the Marine from Starcraft and Starcraft II. Cheap, quick to make, reliable, and their voices aren't grating. Got a problem? Send enough of them in, and eventually you won't!

Banelings, Banelings, Banelings OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sorry, couldn't resist

 

[LoFr3Eq]

Hippogriff Riders from WC3:TFT

So good against almost any unit type, especiall when backed up by a orbed Warden for killing squishy ranged ground units.

Also Dark Templar Kick ass.

Honourable Mention for Longbowmen from AoE2

Banelings, Banelings, Banelings OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sorry, couldn't resist

Like a deadly green land mine mine?

 

[TerranReaper]

*See username to the left of this post*

Also:

-The Titan from Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun
-Jarman (sp?) Kell (sp?) from Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour
-Stealth Tanks from the Tiberium Games (All of them)
-Kodiak Cruiser in Sins of a Solar Empire, screw your capital ships =P
-Terminators from Dawn of War
-UEF Mobile Factory from Supreme Commander
-Pioneers from the Germans in Company of Heroes
-Me 262, the German fighter jet in R.U.S.E
-Dragoons from Empire: Total War
-Incendiary Pigs from Rome: Total War
-Ion Beam Frigates from Homeworld
-IFV from Red Alert series
-Frost Wyrms from Warcraft 3
-VTOL School buses from the obscured Warzone 2100 game, especially with good weapons on it

Do I have enough RTS games in there?

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

Come on guys:

mother fucking shaman from populous:the beginning.
Nice base there ohwaitvolcanololololol!

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I'd have to say the Baneblade from the Dawn of War games. They make playing as the Imperial Guard piss easy. Simply 'Hold The Line' with a network of turrets and garrisoned bunkers until you can get the Mars Pattern Command, then as soon as you build the Baneblade you've basically won by default. Especially if you have another one ready to be built in the queue in case your first one bites the dust, which is usually unlikely.

Otherwise, I have a soft spot for cavalry units in general in Total War. Purely because they allow me to use my favourite tactic, which is to charge the enemy from the rear and rout them in one go. 0r top charge from two sides at once in a pincer movement...

You forgot the Basilisk.

OT: While I know it is kinda several units the Titan from DoW:WA. It is so imba it is actually funny. Although you only get it for 1 mission it is still cool.

 

[vviki]

Grizzly Tank From Red Alert 2........High Speed Low Drag.

Actually, just add every other unit from that game onto my list. That games was spectacular!

Yeah some really awesome units with the most whacked lines you've ever heard!
The Mirage Tank: "Nobody here, but us trees.", when on the move: "Replanting!"
The Desolator: "It will be a silent spring!"
The Navy Seal: "Little C-4 knocking at your door!"
This game just rules

 

[AK47Marine]

Dawn of War Space Marines are probably the most versatile infantry unit I've ever used in an RTS, Strong, sturdy and lethal even with out their various upgrades a fully upgraded and manned tactical squad is a force to be reckoned with, given their various health, range, grenade and 5 different heavy weapons to pick from it's just bad news to battle Space Marines, the ability to attach support units such as Apothecaries, Librarians or Reclusiaches add to the flexibility and lethality of them

On top of that their just goddamn badass.

Edit: Gotta agree that Red Alert 2 has some of the best unit lines ever to grace gaming (as well as Tim Curry and goddamn JAMES EARL JONES! That's the tip that the russians were going to lose hard in that game, you can't do shit against FREAKIN DARTH VADER(/Mufasa).
In the Emperor's name charge!

 

[munx13]

Space marines from Dawn of War and Mammoth tanks from C&C 3

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

WOLOLOOOOOOOOO!!!

nooo for the love of god my entire army is being converted!!.

Man i really hated those guys so much how not even walls would stop those guys.

 

[park92]

For me it's the Marine from Starcraft and Starcraft II. Cheap, quick to make, reliable, and their voices aren't grating. Got a problem? Send enough of them in, and eventually you won't!

what about against banelings?

 

[park92]

C&C Generals Humvee with 4 Missile Defenders and a Path Finder throw in their new Tow Missile and a Battle Drone and you have a unit that can stomp on just about any other unit

Baneblade.

or the King Raptor from C&CG:ZH, absolute monster.

except against quad cannons and gatling cannons and tanks

 

[park92]

C&C Generals Humvee with 4 Missile Defenders and a Path Finder throw in their new Tow Missile and a Battle Drone and you have a unit that can stomp on just about any other unit

Baneblade.

or the King Raptor from C&CG:ZH, absolute monster.

except against quad cannons and gatling cannons and tanks

 

[Taldeer]

I'm not much of an RTS player, I've only ever liked Warhammer 40k: Dark Crusade, and I'm only any good with the Eldar. I love many of their units, but then it's hard not to, since they have such specialized damage that you can't really shun any of them. I guess the Harlequin and the Fire Prism are my favorites though. Harlequin for absolutely demented melee capability and Fire Prism for ridiculous anti-vehile/building badassery.

 

[meowchef]

MONKEYLORD.

 

[Imat]

This is probably one of the scariest moments of a supreme commander game as you wonder who's base is going up in flames..

Um my favorite unit of all my RTS games has to be the Nobz from DoW 2, a group of hardy and vicious orks that revel in smashing the enemy into raspberry jam with a small selection of chain-axes or hammers..

I believe he was quoting Starcraft just there...The original post mentions Ghosts, I seem to remember.

Also, I'm unclear on why chainswords and chain-axes have become so popular. A chainsword is quite literally a chainsaw, only wieldable in 1 hand. The chain-axe is even worse: With no blade, the advantage an axe brings (Using momentum to slide the blade through the enemy) is completely lost: A chainsaw cannot utilize that momentum as well as a sharp edge, not by a long shot. I simply don't understand why these would be any more effective weapons than their simple 'sharp edge' equivalents.

To answer the question posed, however, I would have to go with the Emperor Tank, from Generals: Zero Hour. Not only did it have the ability to upgrade a chaingun turret for easy anti-infantry and anti-air, it came equipped with the powerful speaker tower, which allowed for healing to nearby allies, and was even more powerful than it's smaller counterpart, the Overlord. This tank is the tank other tanks wish they could be.

 

[RichardThompson]

Well, personally I find that this is the most awesome thing I'd seen in a long time.

Spoiler

Sets fire to shit, and it's influenced by Kiss, what more could you want?
And no matter how they tried to hide it, that game was an RTS. An RTS with interesting roaming and awesome music, granted.

 

[Tiny116]

Necron Warriors in DoW.
Once thier fully upgraded they are Legion Incarnate, Of course a wraith or two is needed in case of concealed units XD

 

[Lord Kloo]

This is probably one of the scariest moments of a supreme commander game as you wonder who's base is going up in flames..

Um my favorite unit of all my RTS games has to be the Nobz from DoW 2, a group of hardy and vicious orks that revel in smashing the enemy into raspberry jam with a small selection of chain-axes or hammers..

I believe he was quoting Starcraft just there...The original post mentions Ghosts, I seem to remember.

Also, I'm unclear on why chainswords and chain-axes have become so popular. A chainsword is quite literally a chainsaw, only wieldable in 1 hand. The chain-axe is even worse: With no blade, the advantage an axe brings (Using momentum to slide the blade through the enemy) is completely lost: A chainsaw cannot utilize that momentum as well as a sharp edge, not by a long shot. I simply don't understand why these would be any more effective weapons than their simple 'sharp edge' equivalents.

To answer the question posed, however, I would have to go with the Emperor Tank, from Generals: Zero Hour. Not only did it have the ability to upgrade a chaingun turret for easy anti-infantry and anti-air, it came equipped with the powerful speaker tower, which allowed for healing to nearby allies, and was even more powerful than it's smaller counterpart, the Overlord. This tank is the tank other tanks wish they could be.

Ah yes, thank you for correcting me, I haven't played starcraft so I didn't know they had the missile warning too..

And I think chain weapons are popular simply because they include sharp chains which usually rip flesh asunder, much to 'everyone's' delight..

 

[Roamin11]

For me it's the Marine from Starcraft and Starcraft II. Cheap, quick to make, reliable, and their voices aren't grating. Got a problem? Send enough of them in, and eventually you won't!

I agree, when I was playing 1v1 with my friends as Terran and I was playing as zerg I had wiped him out all but one marrine whos last line was (as he was sacraficed in my main base)

"GET SOME"

Respect, to the puny human!