What is the most useless unit in AOE III?

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Keshik are the Strongest in history and can atk all the world.

but In Game Keshik are useless.

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » 22 May 2015, 04:32

Keshik are not that bad, definately not as bad as steppe riders.

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 22 May 2015, 05:03

Age 2 indian's elephants? I forgot the name.

DerMaxinator · Post by **DerMaxinator** » 22 May 2015, 05:06

diarouga wrote:Age 2 indian''s elephants? I forgot the name.

They''re the Flail Elephants, and I would definitly agree on them being a bit useless.

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 22 May 2015, 05:07

dermaxinator wrote:
diarouga wrote:Age 2 indians elephants? I forgot the name.
Theyre the Flail Elephants, and I would definitly agree on them being a bit useless.

Aizamk uses them sometimes^^.

Marco1698 · Post by **Marco1698** » 22 May 2015, 05:47

There isn't a useless unit at this game. So you can rephrase this question: "what is the most weak unit in aoe3? Now I can respond to you like saying: Strelets.

[Armag] diarouga · Post by **[Armag] diarouga** » 22 May 2015, 06:02

marco1698 wrote:There isn''t a useless unit at this game. So you can rephrase this question: "what is the most weak unit in aoe3? Now I can respond to you like saying: Strelets.

Strelets are weaks but they are super usefull and it is an op unit.
As an indian player, I''ve never made flails elephants in 500 games while a russian will make strels every games.

cowhax · Post by **cowhax** » 22 May 2015, 06:18

Whenever I play as Russian I tend to despise strelet just because I know in the back of my mind 10 streltsy are basically the same as 8ish crossbowmen or 7ish skirms, and I can't choose however many I want to make at a time. always 10... but they aren't useless.

I'd say most useless unit are either the tashunke prowler for Sioux, fire junk for China, or battering rams for Iro.

Honorable mentions go to: Skull knight, arrow knight for Aztec. flamethrower for China, and... grenadiers.

_DB_ · Post by **_DB_** » 22 May 2015, 06:19

I agree with Tommynator truck

Mitoe · Post by **Mitoe** » 22 May 2015, 06:29

Yojimbo (Japanese-only Merc) are probably the most useless units in the game

DivineFire · Post by **DivineFire** » 22 May 2015, 06:32

Guys, priests/imam. So useless you all forgot to mention them lol.

DerMaxinator · Post by **DerMaxinator** » 22 May 2015, 06:47

marco1698 wrote:There isn''t a useless unit at this game. So you can rephrase this question: "what is the most weak unit in aoe3? Now I can respond to you like saying: Strelets.

Strelets are weak, but they are super cheap and cost efficient, so they are very good actually.

Garja · Post by **Garja** » 22 May 2015, 07:22

keshik pretty useless ye, worse than steppes.
Also tashunke prowlers, rajputs, flamethrowers (wow China units so useful).

And no, strelets are not weak at all.

WickedCossack · Post by **WickedCossack** » 22 May 2015, 08:00

Battering rams are built less often than flails imo. I think Agents don't see much action either. Orangutans are good units but rarely get built because of the ship requirement. Least built unit could be a native warrior actually, some of them are pretty terrible.

cowhax · Post by **cowhax** » 22 May 2015, 08:51

garja wrote:keshik pretty useless ye, worse than steppes.
Also tashunke prowlers, rajputs, flamethrowers (wow China units so useful).

And no, strelets are not weak at all.

No love for keshik or steppes?

Mimsy for President · Post by **Mimsy for President** » 22 May 2015, 08:53

I would rather say something relevant : something relevant.

Durokan · Post by **Durokan** » 22 May 2015, 11:45

Villagers are the most useless unit in the game because they just take up military population. They are also terrible at fighting unless you are the french. If you are the french i would suggest shipping pioneers and the movespeed card so you can single pump courers out of your tc as a standing army. This is effextice because the army is self sustaining, and can make its own infrastructure. They can gather resources in between raids. A "real" french army unlike a coourer army would just lose to russia every game on wintery maps like siberia as napoleon knows. I rest my case.

Also keshiks and steppe riders are awesome. Skull knights are too. just ask boneng or that guy that played aztec FI against blackstars russia.
my second thoughts are its probably some variation of surgeon/priest/imam/firepit healers for non aztecs/whatever the other healy people are

Marco1698 · Post by **Marco1698** » 22 May 2015, 11:57

Strelets are good when they are on a good number but a single strelet loses against another single unit. That's I mean

musketjr · Post by **musketjr** » 22 May 2015, 13:13

mitoe wrote:Yojimbo (Japanese-only Merc) are probably the most useless units in the game

funny thing is they''re really good but true, they are effectively useless as japan would never end up making them

Nymphomaniac · Post by **Nymphomaniac** » 22 May 2015, 13:17

Agents most useless imo.. Did anyone actually build them??

Goodspeed · Post by **Goodspeed** » 22 May 2015, 13:34

Yeah there was actually a time on TWC when Dutch were OP where people used them quite often. They were nerfed after that though.

Mimsy for President · Post by **Mimsy for President** » 22 May 2015, 13:42

I heard Yojimbo are op (or just better) in melee although they are ranged cav.

musketjr · Post by **musketjr** » 22 May 2015, 14:21

they're like cuirs in melee mode

Mimsy for President · Post by **Mimsy for President** » 22 May 2015, 14:28

that paradox :eyecrazy:

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