For the first time ever I've kept a game going long enough to actually get some SAP. Now I had always read here that these were some serious infantry.

This coincided with the big orange empire deciding to pick a fight with me. Whenever this has happened in the past I have always found AUM to be pretty much indestructable, but now, surely, I would be the master, right?

Wrong. Admittedly I was giving away three command stars to the Almo general (they seem to have about 200 6 star generals) but it was the same story as before. Even with AUM pinned in front of one unit of SAP, and charged in the rear by another, they took an awfully long time to die. (Die they did, but not before wiping out an entire unit of pikes)

Whats going on here? Are they the best infantry unit or what? I am playing as the Russians so I don't even have much decent cav to run them down with though a boyar sandwich would probably give them pause for thought.