Talk:Cataphract (Age of Empires II)/@comment-14.168.177.13-20160131030503/@comment-2003:D5:1BC9:EA28:9404:DE1E:80ED:3E32-20171008134513

Not really.They match up cost effectively against everything besides

-Top Tier Calvary(Palas,elephants,Boyars)

-Powerful Archers(FU Arbalests Chuk´s Plums)

-Halberdiers

-Scorpions and Monks,if a meatshield is provided

And even all those things come with disadvantages.

Only a handful of civs has either paladins or elephants.And archers only work in a scale of 1:3.And the ammount of Halbs you´ll need to kill these guys is absolutely ludircous,you need an clusterfuck of barracks to keep up a steady stream.

Basically the only true counter against them is not letting it come to the point where the Byzantine can afford the massive money sink that is their Upgrades.