swan knights =p

cavalry archers

dragon knights a la warhammer fantasy battle

I'd also like to see heroes of a certain type boost the ability of regular troops of their type, like a scout improving arcers and the like.

Hey how about some cool units like

Chariots- Powerful first attack (impact hits) and then weaker attacks from that round onwards.

Hopilites- Dudes with gaint spears forming close ranked formations(like the classical greek armies)

Skirmishers-Small groups of archers who runaway when charged

Ghosts- Weak units that can only be hurt with magic weapons

Beserkers- High attacks, with lots of damage, but slightly uncontrolable.

And any changes of Dwarves with cannons, and muskets : P

I would like either a unit or just the chaneller to be able to conjure up fantastical units, like swarms of insects, ghosts, controlled animals etc ... And of course: Elementals!!!

I thought channelers were the only wizards in the game, the only one with access to magic, if they added wizard units, they should depend on shards to power the abilities instead of being able to generally just draw effects out of the air like Channelers, and I don't mean harvesting mana from them for there own internal reserves, I mean they should geniunely have a piece of magic shard with them when casting. Then again maybe I'm being to harsh with magic with what little we know of the lore, if it was that harsh for wizards with magic, how improbable would it be for fantastical units to survive in that world with there powers intact, if magic was so hard for non channelers to use.

Ah not in the least, you just move away from 'I want rangers' to 

- I want to be able to warp my minions (not only equip soldiers but transform the soldier as part of his training) into half demons, half animal, half ... (excluding ling, maybe)

- I need lots of mounts, not just horses (Brad mentioned griffins) - including elephants, chariots, gorillas, ... and although much of this might be modable:

- I would really like undead versions of all living things to be animated after battle.

More accurate now. I'd love to be able to give an elite unit spiffy bling armor that gives a morale bonus to nearby troops.

I'd love to see pegasus knights, but that may because I love warhammer.

I want to be able to get a dragon mount for a hero, but only after a hellacious amount of effort, and as an upgrade for an already awesome hero.

I want to have necromancy that lets you replenish the ranks of skeletons and raise zombies behind your enemies, but I do not want to be able to have a unit's training count for the necromancer. Instead, I'd much rather have necromancers have levels, where their level of 'raise dead' or whatever effectively gives the raised unit a week of training from a starting point of -2 weeks or so, with an ability to take more time/use more power to add a week or two worth's of training so that it takes a damned good necromancer to raise an elite unit easily or a mediocre one a lot of effort, rather than any spud who happens to have a unit of royal guard die nearby.

I would like units to be able to stealth if you train them for that ability, I would like them to be able to have Green Cloaks that increases the effectiviness of the stealth ability in forests, or if stealth works like MOO 2 or Civ 4 Space Game Mod, then increase the speed of the units in woody area's.

I would like there to be Bows, and I would like there to be abilities to choose with bows like poison, it would be neat if they added some dragonsbane poison or anti-channeler poision to make them more dangerous then ususal around those that are able to wield magic.

I would like Spells for the channeler that can convert sentient beasts particularly dragons into friendly units if you put the repeated effort into it till it succeeded.

I would like there to be wonderous items for things along the lines of Excalibur was to the King Arthur story, whether something like that was channeler only or if it could be used by heroes too I don't care.

again can't edit so if this could be merged with the above...

I would like to be able to customize how my unit looked without stats if the item I wanted to use to make my unit look cool didn't come with a bonus.

Oh nothing major like cloaks if I wanted to have my character decked out in lamellar but didn't want to see the helmet I would like the option of putting a hooded cloak over that so I don't see the helmet on the unit, the cloak wouldn't provide the bonus on the head in that case the helmet would, but the hooded cloak would just provide ascethetics.

Edit oh by the way we can edit in this topic now I just needed to lower the word count in the title.

Well if any unit is possible, how about a Dragon riding Champion. Or a unit of fire throwing gecko capable bletching fire 20  feet. Or a elephant with a cannon on its head. A flying Disk for your mage to ride .

Swarms of rats, to weaken up and destroy lesser foes. Munch minions munch till those elves P*** off.

A Troll phalanax, yeah they maybe big and dumb  but if you tell um to hold a spear and stand together surely that would work. 

The Chosen -Frenzed, heavily armered swordmaster, you got no control over them, they just attack anything close to them. Of course they are hard to hurt and kill almost anything they attack but your enemy could lure them away from the main battle and hammer them with missle weapons.

Warmachines, I know their some people here who don't like fantasy  mixing with gunpowder but i'm not in that camp. Cannons, Trebuches, Bolt throwers, A goblin thrower  , troll thrower , a cat-apult .

Hordes of wolves lead by a 'packmaster' wolves attack and panic the enemy but only as long as the packmaster can control(until he dies) them after which they go crazy and attack everything. 

Armerd bears armed with Giant Hammers.

An undermining machine, think Giant drill powered by steam. made of hard nasty brass, used to drill under cities walls.

Lizard men with scales as hard a steel, blades sharp and strenght unmatched, but who are not skillied at swordfighting (i don't need to parry when i can smash your sword in one swing).

Super Halfling Slingers wiith admantium weapons, Got go with the classic.

Pox throws, evil men in capes who throw bottles of bacterial culutres at the enemy, no damage done but enemy unit is weakened.

A molten iron chariot, a chariot carring a big cauldron of moltern iron, it charges and spills it all over itself and the unit. Chariot dies and unit gets melted .

"so you could have, something that resembles those uber worms in Mom"  , awesome Idea the only thing greater than a Great wyrm would be  a hero riding Great Wyrm or having a cannon on its head, or perhaps two.

I think i'm getting a little carried away with myself. Of course this is what I'd really like, and though i don't want to jynx, it i have a feeling most of what I put above would not be capable in your generic unit designer, but it is fantasy. Anywho Can't wait for the June beta(?).