Quote Originally Posted by Caravel View Post
A unit that is useful in desperation is still not a good unit.
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While Urban Militia can be useful under the right conditions, they become redundant and/or obsolete so quickly that it's hardly ever worth training them. I stopped using them in any real numbers after little more than a year of playing MTW, and not at all in the last couple years. With the possible aforementioned exception(s) of the HRE & Italians, pretty much every other faction has at least one or more units -- which are also available early on -- that perform better than UM do. What's more, these other units are usually a better value for your money as well.