Your Big Mage/General
Has High paths for big Cross path spells.
May need some Mid-late game with booster as your big mages.
Give them a Staff of Elemental Mastery

Your Forge masters, get a Dwarven Hammers and craft a large array of Gear for your Thugs and mages.
They can easly produce Magic Boosters and with them forge both kinds of Staff of Elemental Mastery Staff of Elemental Mastery
at late-midde game, Their size, HP, Strenth, and Mgaic make them you best recrutable supercombatant chassis.

They are Recruitable thugs, having thug paths and combat-caster.
Having one with Blessing of the God-slayer and better gear could take down a super combatant with some help.

Scout for scouting needs.

Your most gold efficent researcher. Not a great mage, but you can afford them in the early game and they can lead Gigante expansion parties.
They are effective at preaching away unwanted enemy dominion.
Note: many of your mages had their Ld artificaly lowered, So despite only being able to lead about 30-40 troops, you grant +1 moral and can lead up to 3 Squads without penalty.

Not as gold conservative as Geronte, but are faster researchers and they are Mages that can do good magic in combat.
The Fire and Earth 2 have clear battlefield roles. Air randoms can forge Owl Quills and other 1 items, but can also can be a Sulphur Haze caster if it has a and cast Phoenix Power.
having a Ephor in each fort during Autumn gives you a Giant Assassin at each Krypteion event.

Your Preliminary mages and thugs. The Fire and Earth 3s are your Combat mages
A 3 with a Flame Helmet are good Magma Eruption casters.
With gear, an 2 Archon can cast Cloud Trapeze which make them an ideal thugs.

Turns into Neodamode Peltast at 50 XP. Your best unit from the fact that they are easy to spam, low on upkeep, and have javelins that your mages can buff. Bad morale and low protection can always be offset by buffs and large numbers.

Very situational as the only benefit they have over Helote Peltast is that they have better moral and do not need taskmasters to function. For what they are, you would rather recruit indies with better stats than paying the full wage of a Militia.

Turns into Neodamode Ekdromos at 50 XP. Supposedly a less resource intensive version of the Hoplites with less encumbrance and slightly better defence skill and combat speed. Ekdromos are very situational as they are more likely to die with their low protection.
Can be situationally better aganst enemies that try to fatigue your Hoplites out.

Turns into Neodamode Hoplite at 50 XP. Your secondary infantry, recruit them and in resorce-rich provinces when you reach your fort cap for Gigante. They are formation fighters, so they contribute to harrassment bonus whether it is four humans in a square or two humans and a Gigante.

Naked strong men with two fists and a hardhitting thrown discus. They are the easiest to recruit of the Gigante troops, but very situational because of their lack of protection.
Could knock out enemy giants if you buff their Frisbees.

When you do not have the resources to make a Gigante Hoplite, you make these. When compared to their Helote counterpart, they have better Combat and map move, but a weaker breastplate. They tend to die to indies.

The second strongest giant troops behind Niefel Giants.
Clad in Magic gear that will resist armor destroying spells, and fitting 2 into a square, a unit of 6 to 16 can solo the majority of indies.
The main down side is that they are resource intensive and you do not have the best gold economy. They are also limited rerutment even if you were able to afford more then 4. This leaves you having to spam human slaves to fill up your numbers.

A better Polemarch.
Needs gear in order to thug.
Dominion Immortality with a one-month respawn timer makes him ideal for protecting you land from raiding armys.
Aside from thugging, he is also capable of spamming Magma Eruption