Greek units in Command An Army

What the Greek content is

Update 3 adds a Greek mythology themed layer to the roster. Across the creator videos that covered the update, the headline item is a single massive unit built on Greek myth, and the coverage consistently frames it as the first five-star unit in the game. A new mountain map is announced alongside it, which points to the faction being tied to new terrain rather than a reskin of the existing maps.

The theme is the part that matters for roster planning. A mythology set pulls on very different silhouettes than the historical lines already in the game, and the one unit that has been shown reads closer to a heavy centerpiece than to a rank-and-file troop. That is why the update is being treated as a faction drop and not as a balance patch.

The Laestrygonian

The Laestrygonian is the name creators use for the new five-star unit, and it is the clearest signal of what Update 3 is building toward. In Greek mythology the Laestrygonians are a clan of giants, and the in-game unit is described as noticeably larger than a regular unit, which matches a giant rather than a soldier. Multiple creators independently land on the same name and the same five-star framing.

Auto-generated captions render the name in several ways, including laestrygon, leostrigonian and lagonian. Those are all the same unit. If you are searching for the unit by name, all three spellings lead to the same five-star Greek unit, and this page uses the Laestrygonian spelling throughout.

What is not settled is the practical side. Star cost, squad size and the exact role are not something the leak coverage commits to, and the in-game Units menu is the only authority. Treat the name, the Greek mythology theme and the five-star tier as the confirmed part, and everything else as provisional.

Spartan and the existing Greek line

Spartan is not new. It is an existing four-star special melee unit that already sits in the site unit database, and it is the piece of the Greek theme that players can actually field today. The counters page already reflects this: halberdier style anti-shield units and mace are the standard answers to a Spartan stack, and archer lines punish it hard.

That distinction matters when reading Update 3 coverage. The new Laestrygonian is an addition next to Spartan rather than a replacement for it, so a Spartan-based loadout does not become obsolete. What the new unit changes is the ceiling at the top of the star budget, not the fundamentals of the matchup web. The full list of existing units is on the units page.

Phalangite and Myrmidon

Two Greek themed names that trended as leaks before launch are in the game now. The Phalangite arrives as the evolution of the pikeman, a spear-and-shield line unit with three hold formations, and the Myrmidon arrives as a four-star shield front-liner in the same family as the knight. Post-launch creator coverage names both as released units, and the videos below show them in play.

The names still matter for search: a phalangite is a phalanx soldier and a myrmidon is one of Achilles’ warriors, so both read as Greek even though they shipped in the same Update 3 drop as the Mongol content. A third trending name, khorchin, is Mongolian rather than Greek and is covered on the Mongol units page instead.

How the Greek units change the game

The practical change is the top of the star budget. A five-star unit of the size the Laestrygonian is described as is expensive to field, so it competes for the same slots as two or three lower-star units. That is the whole decision: whether the centerpiece is worth the slots it takes from the rest of the line.

The new trait and skill tree system sits alongside all of this and changes how a unit is built rather than which unit you take. That system has its own page, and the full update timeline is on the updates page. The Mongol faction that launched the same update is on the Mongol units page.

Breakout search questions

Is the Phalangite a real unit in Command An Army?

Yes. The Phalangite shipped in Update 3 as the evolution of the pikeman — a phalanx soldier with long spears and a shield — and post-launch creator coverage names it as a released unit. The in-game Units menu remains the final authority on its stats.

Is the Myrmidon in Command An Army?

Yes. The Myrmidon shipped in Update 3 as a four-star shield front-liner in the knight family, named across post-launch creator coverage. Its exact stats and hidden behaviour are the part still worth checking in your own Units menu.

What is the Laestrygonian in Command An Army?

The Laestrygonian is the name creators give the first five-star unit of Update 3. In Greek myth the Laestrygonians are a clan of giants, and the in-game unit is described as larger than a regular soldier. It is the headline Greek unit of the update, alongside the Phalangite and Myrmidon.