Automan's are great!!!!! But only if:
--You have a lot of favor income
--You have a lot of resources to waste
--You get over 10 in a group
--You know how to micro them really well (i.e. repair)
--You have some archers backing them up
--You have too much free population space
If you have all of the above things, then yeah they work great and are worth it.
But that is if you are still an atlantean player, that has not yet figured out that they stink.
O! well look at that, the highest ranked player that uses atlanteen over 50% of the time, and wins with him is ranked:37, o look at that RANK 37.
poor nebie, and the top 4 players are isis, guess what civ. is proved to be really good (ISIS)