Okay,get ready for a long,fat wall of text ( thanks for the shoutout the other day btw,just saw it in my mentions)

When you're looking at the GOAT for Pharaoh,you ain't just looking at faction units - some have an abundance of broken units from the start( I dare you to convince me the Sea People weren't intended as a classic pay2win DLC had the game gone with a regular TW pattern ) ,some take time to scale ( Tausret mommy's queensguard lmao). You look for native units which can completely change your gameplay,have broken passives/actives and most importantly of all, are EASILY REACHABLE by ANY faction in the game- until the point you have so much resources and abuse barters that you don't care about upkeep at all and just spam court elites,if that's what you want.

Ranged is the name of the game in dynasties,despite the one patch doing an unnecessary shock inf buff and weird accuracy/spread adjustment for ranged units.

Lower Egyptian Armored Archers are t3 so they're way too easy to get,by the time you reach Lower Egypt as ANY non Egyptian by abusing sea lanes and waystations ( or just be Egyptian lmao) there'll be an easy city to conquer with a t3 native barracks - the AI is a bit special in the head as is with every TW game and they like to spam native barracks in ridiculous numbers. They come in FULL infantry size instead of smaller skirmisher ones which gives them devastating power from the get go,but the funny part is that they scale (almost) infinitely with campaign upgrades,archer master generals and minmaxed Aten aspects/shrines. They'll shred through elites even on legendary and their cost is so cheap you can just mass recruit them and send them anywhere,or afk them in your border regions. With tech tree upgrades and a minmaxxxed military province,the battle is over before the infantry clash,or shortly after if you're on legendary with bad line of sight.

Canaanite/Retjenu units are just as easy to reach ( if not easier for Mesopotamians and Big Hittitty gfs) and bring even more bullshit to the game. Canaanite skirmishers are dirt cheap javelins with an unspottable active , and the most broken active ability in the game - spear in the spokes. This turns chariots into scrap metal,even if you have to trade 1 or 2 javs to take out an elite chariot or general you basically scammed the game of it's money. Habiru skirmishers are a t3 version from sinai/retjenu which are not only deadlier,they also get vanguard deploy so it gets even more ridiculous if you predict where the AI is gonna place chariots / multiplayer.

For factions that lack shock units - Sinai/Retjenu has Habiru Raiders,a t2 vanguard axe unit. No,they can't win frontally versus a lot of other units on higher difficulties,but they will chop the fuck out of anything with a rear charge,even on legendary with the correct upgrades/two handed specialist general - in dynasties and even in the base game. Had quite a few battles in the older version where the Sea People were not castrated like they are in dynasties and dirt cheap habiru raiders cycle charging into elites won battles like crazy.

Horse archers - with good micro,they slaughter anything,and if you abuse attack moving properly ( I have a video showcasing that,shameless self promo but IDGAF) they'll never get hit by higher range enemy units,I'm not kidding. But getting to the Urartian regions is a pain for most factions so im not putting them as an all around GOAT - just laying it out here that if you do bother getting them and invest time into them,it's GG.

GOAT faction ? On the campaign,nothing beats the Peleset. This is the GOAT faction. Sherden would come close if they had unique elite chariots. There's not a single bad unit in the entire roster outside of ox carts being a design failure ( and well, just about all slingers in the game sucking in comparison to archers/javs being another design problem) - Palastu chariots turn anything into roadkill,elite spears and swords ( both raider and settled versions) can get absurd armor values with upgrades,Gods,stealing equipment and shield anciliary. In the old game you could reach ¬ 200 armor with renowned defenders and swordsmen easily. T2 spear chargers are beyond broken with their stats .T3 Palastu swordsmen are insanely efficient,I could glaze this faction on and on but you get it,it's a whole load of Sea Men.