Perfect ground factory?

A thinking exercise:

You get to make a factory with any 10 ground units. What units do you choose?

Balance is based on what is currently available (6/4/2017), and the current matchmaker map pool. What 10 unit composition do you think would have the highest possible win-rate against current meta?

- Assume 1v1
- Flying units are disallowed because that would break 1v1 meta beyond recognition.
- Striders are allowed
- Workers are included in the 10
- Assume you might be up against flyers just like in a normal game
- You're allowed to switch factories, including to plane and GS facs
- Use units as of 6/4/2017
- Assume you're making a factory attempting to get the highest win-rate across the current map pool
- Assume opposing facs are a mix of normal factories and custom like yours

Running total: Up to raaar

Scalpel: 11
Warrior: 10
Glaive: 9.5
Dagger: 7.5
Firewalker: 7
Grizzly: 6
Scythe: 5
Flea: 5
Penetrator: 4
Crabe: 4
Halberd: 4
Flail: 4
Convict: 4
Recluse: 3.5
Constable: 3
Roach: 3
Placeholder: 3
Reaper: 2
Venom: 2
Hammer: 2
Thug: 2
Scorcher: 2
Vandal: 2
Rocko: 1.5
Bandit: 1
Leveler: 1
Racketeer: 1
Jack: 1
Goliath: 1
Infiltrator: 1
Spectre: 1
Conjurer: 1
Outlaw: 1
Weaver: 1
Archangel: 1
Dominatrix: 1
Gremlin: 1
Crasher: 1
Pillager: 1
Buoy: 1
Duck: 1
Panther: 1
Tarantula: 1
Hermit: .5
Ravager: .5

on a first, quick thought:

- not sure about builder
- glaive/dagger
- warrior
- recluse/rocko
- firewalker
- hermit/ravager
- scalpel
- roach
- reaper
- penetrator

depends on map ofc. if there are 2 mentions, its for hilly/flat.
left out eraser under the assumption you can build a sneaky pete and morph it.
impaler is a strong candidate as well.

(1) Convict
(5) Scalpel, Dagger, Flail, Halberd, Firewalker (due to being some of the best units of their classes)
(1) Crabe (pretty strong against Scalpels which are relatively popular)
(1) Racketeer (one of the most reliable anti-heavies)
(2) Thug, Outlaw (shield utility + Outlaw functioning as riot)

If AA isn't required I'd use an Aspis for stronger shield balls.
I also assumed no striders are allowed (although I probably wouldn't include any, as long as I can still construct the strider fac).

I have no idea what the current meta or units are like so I'm just gonna list the ones I think are OP

1 - Crabe (still op)
2 - Scorcher (really all you need to dominate flat maps early)
3 - Glaive
4 - Flea (OP map vision and harrassment tool)
5 - Scythe
6 - Weaver (7.5bp, all-terrain and mini radar)
7 - Archangel (probably best land AA idk)
8 - Dominatrix
9 - Pillager (a solid long range artillery, probably preferable to impaler or tremor)
10 - Scalpel (I assume these are popular right now and I need a mid-range pick)

Its surprising how once you start trying to make an all-round factory its actually probably worse than the ones tailored for specific map types.

I switched pyro for scythe, need an invisible unit of some sort and pyro is early game overkill in this fac. Would be nice if I could fit a venom in but meh. Wanted absolutely nothing from shields (which says a lot). Crabe, scorcher and glaive take care of 90% of my needs, dominatrix fills in any blanks usually.

Edit: noticed striders are allowed, I think if you can afford striders then you can afford a strider hub, no need to include it

1. dagger

[Fx]Drone here you go, play some 1v1 and you'll be able to fix you list..

1) dagger
2) glaive
3) flail
4) scalpel
5) warrior
6) reaper
7) scythe
8) conjurer
9) penetrator
10) crabe

This is mostly an unholy mix of cloaky and hover.

I really like my Scythes, so i've included them instead of both Flea and Halberd as spotters for penetrators and as intel providers. There's a notable lack of power-multiplier units like Placeholder, but those are so marginally powerful that it's not a chore to get a new factory for them. The same goes for antiheavies; i've encountered quite some heavy unit and trollcom rushes in last PW season and it seems that in smaller games Thunderbird roflstomps them much more mercilessly.

I picked Conjurer as the con because it often allows leapfrogging expansions early on and hiding from things that would try to find it (assuming enough free APM). Flail goes as AA without comment.

I picked Reaper as the honest assault instead of Jack as a concession to aesthetics. Jack is ugly and silly. Daggers dominating dry lands is stupid and ugly. Skirmishers reliably counter raiders. Many such cases. Reaper stands as my symbolic honor guard against this degeneracy.

Of course, all of the above speculation only has any meaning if the Dagger spam fails to counter absolutely everything. In my experience, it only fails to achieve this if the hover player spends their resources on the weaker units, or if the map is small.

When reading the headline I thought hedgehogs is back, sorry :)

Constable
glaive
warrior
scalpel
floaty doombrick of immortalness
roach
flail
Infiltrator
Hammer
Grizzly

I wanted to fit scorpion in there

1.dagger
2.warrior
3.flea
4.scalpel
5.pene
6.flail
7.recluse
8.scythe
9.grizz
10.panthers

I find all the flea and roach picks interesting...I never see anyone actually use these units outside of theory-crafting however.