Good Tanker units?

[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?

[MajorS]

Your best tank is any Level 5 unit with target on it and someone healing them

[Longasc]

Originally Posted by MajorS

Your best tank is any Level 5 unit with target on it and someone healing them

Exactly.

Swordsmen, Griffins... they are not bad and definitely good tanks. They just tend to take losses.

Griffins are a unit for certain strategies involving their high speed and split abilities, but if you really put them to the forefront, they will suffer losses. Retaliation helps them nothing in this regard, I would still prefer Royal Snakes over them. You will have to rez them anyways. They just take losses.

But a Black/Green/whatever Dragon can quickly traverse the battlefield and attract enemy attacks. They have high hp pools and awesome defense.
They will not take much losses or any losses at all, and resurrecting them with Inquisitors works very well.


I would suggest going to the Elven Lands and sail along the shores till you find the island where you can buy Emerald Dragons.

Another trick would be to use Lina's spiked ball or a Phoenix as diversion.


Dragons >>>> level 2-3 tank units. They are not only better tanks, they are better per se.

[Namel]

Originally Posted by Metathron

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?

I only use stacks of 80% or so of my leadership and on occasions use sacrifice on them. You can use heal too to kill some of them if they go over leadership.

[maltz]

The best tank is a hypnotized enemy unit.

[Shadowdrake]

There's no cap, thats really the only problem with ghosts; you have to be careful when judging their resurrection. You have to hire less than your normal limit and keep the rest in reserve to make use of them properly.