What is your best / worst performing unit...

[Maenoferren]

Yep 

[getagrip]

Yep 

You then do the double bluff, don't put any fanatics in, march toward the opposition uber unit which promptly runs away from about 60 point of trash

[Maenoferren]

You then do the double bluff, don't put any fanatics in, march toward the opposition uber unit which promptly runs away from about 60 point of trash

Have I played against you....you know how I think

[Ithoriel]

Undoubtedly my best performing unit were the Byzantine peasants I took as part of my warband for Retinue. Their volleys of stones took out vastly more than their points value over the course of our many games!

Worst performing has to be my Warmaster Dragon Rider who lost a combat against a unit of Empire Halberdiers despite charging them in the flank and being supported by a hero on a dragon!!! The nadir of a dismal career

[getagrip]

Have I played against you....you know how I think

Dirty gobbo tactics

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Best: my 2nd Infantry platoon of my 15mm german infantry. Assault monsters and won me so many different games in so many different rules systems!

Worst: whichever elite unit I have just painted and put on the table for the first time! "Gone!"

[getagrip]

Worst: whichever elite unit I have just painted and put on the table for the first time! "Gone!"

Not just me then

The worst thing is the pride with which you place them on the table only to have to remove them!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It doesn't help that they might as well have a big pink neon sign saying "Fire magnet!"
Doomed as soon as they get on table!

[getagrip]

It doesn't help that they might as well have a big pink neon sign saying "Fire magnet!"
Doomed as soon as they get on table!

Yeah, no matter where you put 'em they either get pummelled or charged!

[Nosher]

My ECW royalist cavalry are my best troops.

My Polish Winged Hussars are pretty but thats about it....

[Westmarcher]

I know Barry Hilton in his League of Augsburg website (there is a blog and forum too) kept unit battle histories for his 9YW units but i could never be bothered with that kind of thing. Anyhoo. When we paint new units, are we sitting there going, "whoah, whoah, whoa, whoah, whoah.  wait 'til these boys hit the table!" thinking because they look the biz, they'll do the biz? There appears to be a pattern. Newly painted units are p*** (poor - that's the word I was looking for). Is it a myth? Or do we expect them to do daft things, perform impossible heroics or what? Strangely, I don't have a best / worst unit with the heroes in the last game tending to be the villains in the next. Personally, I suspect I subconsciously say to myself, "these guys were brilliant in the last game" and so I expect them to be wonderful in the next game. And usually they ain't.

[Orcs]

The best performing unit / figure at the Tring Club was "Small bow with stick".  He was supposed to be a shepherd or something, but basically in skirmish games counted as having an improvised weapon.

Virtually every game he took on mail clad waroiors mounted or dismounted and often killed several of them before either running away or eventually being killed.

This all sound relatively imposible until you start reading about the effectiveness of a Quarterstaff.

[getagrip]

The best performing unit / figure at the Tring Club was "Small bow with stick".  He was supposed to be a shepherd or something, but basically in skirmish games counted as having an improvised weapon.

Virtually every game he took on mail clad waroiors mounted or dismounted and often killed several of them before either running away or eventually being killed.

This all sound relatively imposible until you start reading about the effectiveness of a Quarterstaff.

Quick, he's coming....

[gregernest]

Best:  my PanzerIVF2's.  Beats up on allied tankers all the time!   

Lately is has been my TYW Catholic cavalry.  Keeps just messing up the Protestants!  Dice just go cold on the other guy... 

Worst:  TIE fighters from that crazy (and now Disney) game.  Can't seem to keep them in the 'air'.  Of course I stink at any kind of dogfighting game. 

(Can anyone tell:  I end up playing the 'bad' guys a lot.)

[petercooman]

Worst:  TIE fighters from that crazy (and now Disney) game.  Can't seem to keep them in the 'air'.  Of course I stink at any kind of dogfighting game. 

Tried the interceptors? They are super to do your dogfighthing. If i am low on points i sometimes take tie bombers, equally good at dogfighting but double the survivability!

[gregernest]

Sure have.  It's the player in this case. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Tie defenders are a bit good too!

[getagrip]

Another unit of mine that always gets hammered are chariots; I never get their movement right and they get charged. 

[Hertsblue]

Another unit of mine that always gets hammered are chariots; I never get their movement right and they get charged. 

How much?

[Orcs]

The best performing unit / figure at the Tring Club was "Small bow with stick".  He was supposed to be a shepherd or something, but basically in skirmish games counted as having an improvised weapon.

Virtually every game he took on mail clad waroiors mounted or dismounted and often killed several of them before either running away or eventually being killed.

This all sound relatively imposible until you start reading about the effectiveness of a Quarterstaff.

That should have said "SMALL BOY WITH STICK"