Favorite units?

Dwarves!

Get like 70 of those and you'll be unbeatable. They can be recruited for free from external dwellings, and since they're one of the weakest tier 2 units, they'll get ignored by the AI until everyone else in your army is dead. My town was attacked and I was totally unprepared, and the coward fled because they couldn't handle my dwarves.

But for a more serious reply, I think dragons win. HoMM II is what got me into dragons in the first place, and I still nerd out over those majestic creatures to this day. HoMM II's dragon designs will always be my favorite out of all games, not just limited to the franchise.
Other favs include: Bone Dragons - really cool-looking, I love their evil grin and glowing eyes; Vampire Lords because they give you a huge advantage, Ghosts because once you get even 20 of those, you win; Titans for being overpowered yet hard to acquire; Phoenixes because they're pretty (shame they don't get resurrected), and Wolves because they're cute. No HoMM game since has had such cute wolves.

Rogues. A unit I personally consider to be the best level 1 unit in the game, often overlooked in the earlier days, helped sway many a victory to one's side when given the chance to be recruited in the early game.

Hydras, despite their abysmal speed were pretty amazing too, especially with teleport handy.

Roa wrote:

Rogues. A unit I personally consider to be the best level 1 unit in the game, often overlooked in the earlier days, helped sway many a victory to one's side when given the chance to be recruited in the early game.

Hydras, despite their abysmal speed were pretty amazing too, especially with teleport handy.

Good choices of very strategic units Rogues are definitely also one of my favorites. Very offensive and interesting with "No enemy retaliation" they can indeed be used for a quick attack. Hydras are often underestimated, but they are truly the best guard unit. The combination of no retaliation with all-around attack is devastating for melee enemies, especially in plural

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A more serious reputation damage is that titans are claimed to preferrably beat up female characters (MM6), which is not really a behaviour I appreciate.

That fact is more likely due to the lower Armor Class on your female characters in MM6 as well as their classes which are in fact more valuable (and thus prioritized for killing) than straightforward tanky Knights

Very smart from the titans. I started making my clerics male characters when I realized titans prioritized females.

there are units I always like to get above all others, excluding level 6 creatures:

- Trolls for their good damage, regeneration and high HP
- Vampire Lords obviously
- Rocs - even a few of those and you can kill any low-level ranged neutral enemies
- Gargoyles - same reason as above, plus high speed
- Elves - double shoot ranged glass cannon killing machine

And the most cool-looking are probably Genie and Phoenix