Good Tanker units?

[Sensemaker]

Originally Posted by lobo76

use dryads. remember that when u use phantom, they also have the abilities. aka. you can sprout a lot of plants, and multiple sleep ability at the same time.

I am just a beginner and haven't played elves yet, but looking at the stats and abilities of dryads make me impressed. 12 in defense and 25 hit points for a 20 leadership unit. That is very good. Add beauty which means male humanoids have 30% chance of missing entirely. They can summon thorns to do extra tanking for you.

Still in early game, I prefer to use the phoenix to do a bit of tanking for me. After moving my first units I can typically summon it and move it right to the middle of enemy archers where it will hit several of them with a single attack. When counter-attacked they retaliate and cause more damage to other archers. As often as not, the AI neglects to step onto the hex with it's corpse and I get to use it once again after it is killed. 20 mana and one turn of spell casting is a bit steep but you get a lot of us from it if your opponent is heaving in archers.

Sensemaker