Good Tanker units?

[Infiltrator]

Black Dragons are the best tanks, no contest, the dryad may have a high HP/ldrs ratio but you will still lose a lot of them from most attackers. Whereas the enemy has to really make an effort to kill a single black dragon.

[ender]

Griffin seems good, with unlimited retaliation.
Ressurection+magic spring+a single stack of griffins=win many battles without loss and good experience for rage box.

[Zhuangzi]

Griffins. They are the best, hands down. Black Dragons are too expensive and by the latter stages of the game your strategy will probably be different. I do use Black Dragons at the end, but not in this fashion.

[Victor86]

Ancient vampires .. against non-undead and non-plant enemies , along with some defensive spell on them.
Ofc griffins too.

[player1]

Simple Swordsmen or Guardsmen can be great tanks if having Iron Fist talent to reduce their leadership by 20%. I also had lots of tanking with Dwarves. As someone mentioned Griffins are great too.

Anyway, any unit whose HP is higher then (or equal to) its leadership and has decent defense rating makes good tank. And if it has physical resistance of some level it's even better. Those units are also best to use phantom on.


P.S.
Warrior armes, in practice, need more tanks then other heroes, since that best way to minimize loses for hero who doesn't relly on damaging spells or ressurection to keep enemy attack power down.

[Namel]

Don't forget ghosts and cursed ghosts. With little planning I actually gain ghosts in almost every fight.

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by Namel

Don't forget ghosts and cursed ghosts. With little planning I actually gain ghosts in almost every fight.

Good, but have you had problems with your leadership? Or is there some sort of cap, i.e. do ghosts add more ghosts only up to your leadership's limit?