Talk:Pikeman (Age of Empires II)/@comment-40154191-20191220122200/@comment-26842175-20191221202818

eagle warriors are not countered by pikemen or halbediers. Pikemen and halbediers might look to be okay if you do not take their attack rate into account. Their attack rate is 1/3 worse than that of most infantry units and that makes a difference.

Eagles are cost effective against these units even if the eagles are outnumbered 2 to 1. On top of that, Eagles are faster as well.

In fact, the best players of the game say that Aztecs is one of the best civs and they mainly use Eagles when playing as Aztecs.