What to do with AUM

[Silver Rusher]

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.

Aah... My friend, you must remember the 3 iron laws of battle.

1. Melee infantry beats spears.
2. Spears beat cavalry.
3. Cavalry beat melee infantry.

I don't understand how AUMs are so good anyways though, they are militia after all, normal UMs are quite rubbish. They are way way way too cost effective, though, whoever pointed that out was right.

[katank]

they may be militia class but their stats are FMAA stats for vanilla ones and from granada, they are better than CMAA!

they are extremely strong and under a good general can be next to invincible.

I don't agree with the simplicity of the cav beats sword business. the question is how to cost effectively beat em.

if the AUMs are parked in a forest, you can do nothing with your heavy cav other than getting slaughtered.

[Desiderata]

they may be militia class but their stats are FMAA stats for vanilla ones and from granada, they are better than CMAA!

they are extremely strong and under a good general can be next to invincible.

I don't agree with the simplicity of the cav beats sword business. the question is how to cost effectively beat em.

if the AUMs are parked in a forest, you can do nothing with your heavy cav other than getting slaughtered.

I think that if you make comparisons of vanilla troops I think the model works to a degree. However, I also agree that the situation is often far more complex and many variables come in to play; for example, the geography and terrain of the battle site, the weather and the general's stats. But it's stil a useful guide IMHO