Best RTS unit of all time?

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#1 Big_Red_Button
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Tons of people make "best weapon ever" threads, but here's a bit of a different take on that.

What's the best unit in an RTS (or any Strategy game for all I care) ever?

It can be the most powerful, the most useful, the most unique, whatever you think the best one is.

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Hevan Know what hit em'
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#4 Spartan070
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The Ion Cannon thing from C&C if that counts.
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#5 shaggymcp
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Siege Tank from Starcraft..... line's of them pwnd hard against the zergling rush :D
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#6 The_Ish
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The Ghost Units of the Terran Race from Starcraft.
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The Mammoth tank from the original C&C.
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Naked Fanatics or Incindiary Pigs from Rome: Total War.
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Siege Tank from Starcraft..... line's of them pwnd hard against the zergling rush :Dshaggymcp
Lurker traps would slaughter entire divisions of seige tanks
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Naked Fanatics or Incindiary Pigs from Rome: Total War.ZebethOrZebes


omg, forgot about those. Those were so cool :P
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pigs suck the best is roman calvary they run through anything
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War Elephants in Rome TW and Medeival TW
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#15 ZebethOrZebes
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pigs suck the best is roman calvary they run through anythingangilk
I didn't mean in terms of quality, I meant in terms of hilarity.
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Hevan Know what hit em'htekemerald
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FOR CRIPE'S SAKES PEOPLE, THE NAKED FANATICS WOULD TAKE THE HEADS OF THEIR FALLEN ENEMIES, COVER THEM IN POISON AND THROW THEM AT THEIR LIVING ENEMIES!!!
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[QUOTE="shaggymcp"]Siege Tank from Starcraft..... line's of them pwnd hard against the zergling rush :DAvinashTyagi
Lurker traps would slaughter entire divisions of seige tanks

Not if they are used for defense, the lurkers would have to come in to range to dig in to be effective, and they would be slaughtered in the process :D

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THEY WOULD DO ALL OF THIS.... WHILE *NAKED*!!!!
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[QUOTE="AvinashTyagi"][QUOTE="shaggymcp"]Siege Tank from Starcraft..... line's of them pwnd hard against the zergling rush :Dshaggymcp

Lurker traps would slaughter entire divisions of seige tanks

Not if they are used for defense, the lurkers would have to come in to range to dig in to be effective, and they would be slaughtered in the process :D

Never use lurkers that way, the best usage is to mine chokepoints with lurkers, and put Hydras and zerglings at each end, then when the tanks come select the Lurkers and hit S over and over to keep them from attacking, then once the tanks are over the lurkers let go of the S button and then pop up the hydras and Zerglings, that way the tanks can't run and they get ripped to shreds by the lurkers
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The Ghost from Starcraft.

I mean, his voice is so badass he just wins by default.

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#22 jachichorro
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Krogoth from Total Annihilation. Karganeth if you count user-made units.
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The Big Bertha or Vulcan from Total Annihilation.

*thinks about Supreme Commander and massive gun emplacements... drools*
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Carriers from Starcraft. Owned against bad human players and any cpu players! Very easy to defeat them if you were good though, just like any unit.
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Fire Prisms FTW!
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carriers from Starcraft.

"Carrier has arrived"

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#27 GameCrazed85
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[QUOTE="shaggymcp"]

[QUOTE="AvinashTyagi"][QUOTE="shaggymcp"]Siege Tank from Starcraft..... line's of them pwnd hard against the zergling rush :DAvinashTyagi

Lurker traps would slaughter entire divisions of seige tanks

Not if they are used for defense, the lurkers would have to come in to range to dig in to be effective, and they would be slaughtered in the process :D

Never use lurkers that way, the best usage is to mine chokepoints with lurkers, and put Hydras and zerglings at each end, then when the tanks come select the Lurkers and hit S over and over to keep them from attacking, then once the tanks are over the lurkers let go of the S button and then pop up the hydras and Zerglings, that way the tanks can't run and they get ripped to shreds by the lurkers

The original poster wasn't MOVING his tanks at all so he is still correct. He meant seige tanks in seige mode in a line not moving.

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Arthas from Warcraft 3. :P
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#29 jachichorro
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The Big Bertha or Vulcan from Total Annihilation.

*thinks about Supreme Commander and massive gun emplacements... drools*
foxhound_fox

I like the Intimidator or the Buzzsaw better, I'm just a Core guy...now if Core had Brawlers :cry:
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The imperial guard's artillery. i forgot the name but i love the animations. oh and tau's fire warriors
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Arthas from Warcraft 3. :Pproject343
Pft. Kerrigan > Arthas :P
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#32 Big_Red_Button
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I'd have to say a Zergling, a single Zergling could take ANY army of ANY size in just a couple hits. And they had such high health that building a pair of them would last you the whole game.