What to do with AUM

[Sir Chauncy]

One tactic that I think most people have overlooked here is the "pump your enemy so full of mayonnaise that he finds it hard to move" or the terrifying "feed him prunes for 24 hours and tell him the nearest toilet is 2 hours away at full gallop".

Very effective I think you will all agree.

As for actually fighting them on the battlefield, I have never ever had a problem with AUM, they really aren't that much trouble. People rave about them but all you have to do is charge them in the rear and bobs your uncle, even dodgy cavalry like the hobilars is very effective. And as Russia you have Boyars! Just run straight at them and watch them cower in their little space boots. However, the single most effective thing that I have found against AUMs are units of Jinettes. They are awesome, chuck a few javelins (micromanaged with out skirmish) and then do a lot of flanking. I remember playing a game as Spain and a lot of Jinettes, I just couldn't stop winning, I crushed the Almos is startling numbers taking thousands of people prisoner just by doing successful flank attacks. Do the "Horns of the Buffalo" that the Zulus made famous and all will be well:

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oooooooooo < you

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oo oo
oo oo you pseudo retreating
oo oo (this is odd, it wont let me make a V shape: just imagine it looks like a V)
ooo


and then you have most of their flanks, even if you don't a mainly cavalry army can outrun most things until backup arrives. This works awesomely with Boyars as they have bows and not Javelins for a longer range. Shoot the general or weakly armoured units for maximum effect and don't bother with the AUMs, just drag them off somewhere out of the battle and then kill them all at the end.

If you can't do it now, I don't know that you will be able too.

By the way, if you have SAP, why don't you use the halberds? The Swiss ones that are hard as nails and chew through armour like a rust mite in an iron mongers shop?