>>23340100
>Isn't the AEUG super weak and only capable of guerilla strikes?
depends on the episode

>Why did the Titans bother with such underhanded tactics?
remember your old job where your old boss demands you do things a certain way? that's why. no other explanation to it, really. boss spends all his time away from the actual workplace and doesn't know the job that well and insists you do things a certain way because "this is how we do it" and "I'll write you up for insubordination" except sometimes the writeups also include bask punching you.

>Why not just recruit lore people and crush the AEUG the old fashioned way? Hunt them down like hunting down Zeon remnants.
Titans haven't actually done that yet so they didn't have experience and keep fucking it up. and then their boss tells them to do things like kidnappings and setting elaborate traps. and they keep forcing zeon-style MS which the feds don't know how to use since they used to be GM pilots

I mean to be fair they do keep trying to recruit the veteran fed pilots like lila and buran to help them out but they oddly keep dying anyway