"Toth war elephants are nice but the lack of area damage makes them weaker than even the disappointing AoK's Persian elephants"
Nope, even if they lack area damage, they are still better. In AOM, elephants actually benefits from armory upgrades. Fully upgraded toth war elephant is ridiculously strong, 25 attack, 700-800 hp, much better armor. They would crush any single unit from aoe/aoe2, no doubt.
"and no matter how you put it, even the AoK's unit would beat AoM's Champion War Elephants."
As i said, toth elephant is so much stronger, it win easy. If i remember correctly, aok elephants do benefit from blacksmith, that would make the armored elephnt the weakest.
"AoE's Cavalry has a bonus attack vs Infantry, how would the U-150 Hp AoM infantry deal with that? after all AoE's armor rationg isn't a percentage, but it can easily stop 45+ % of AoM's infantry Attack (and that is you have basic cavalry, the percentage goes up if you research H.Cavalry or Cataphracts). Even if infantry had 60% hack armor cataphracts would cause 8 damage, no bonus counted, count the bonus and we have 16."
Count the bonus and you have 13 damage, hardly anything revolutionary. Katapeltes would still own pretty much every cavalry in the game, they are cheap, and ridiculously strong for a counter unit. Anyway, Jarl beats any cavalry in aoe/oe2, camels and the greek counter cavalry also work nice, its of little concern. Ulfsark with the proper minor god upgrade will be a cheap and massable counter to cavalry, same goes for spearman. Anyway, would you really spend 2000 food and 850 hold for that upgrade? This is perhaps the worst upgrade in the game, cost wise.
I just dont see how you can think the aoe units would beat AOM units, its just not going to happen. We have 350 hp cavalry tanks, archers outranging siege weapons, powerful myth units. Every single "super unit" is beaten and outclassed, exept maybe centurion, but even that is debatable.
It doesnt matter if you are not impressed with the jarl, it still beat the cataphract. Almost twice as much hp, cataphract deals a few point more damage, but its still not anywhere close.
"and that's why comparing AoE and AoK is easy, but either to AoM is hard"
Aok have the weakest units out of the aoe/aom series, no doubt about that.
[This message has been edited by Aoe_1337 (edited 11-29-2011 @ 00:47 AM).]