Talk:Cataphract (Age of Empires II)/@comment-65.28.183.104-20190629202317/@comment-27726014-20190629203126

The Malay battle elephants will do fine. With their large HP the lack of armor isn't as significant when fighting strong units. Armor comes into play when fighting large numbers of weak units. Also for elephants bloodlines is not all that important as it gives only a 7% increase.

I think the rule of thumb with cataphracts is that they are impossible to counter. However they are not overly powerful. The best way to beat cataphracts is to just overpower them. So the units that do well are those with strong stats like elephants, paladins and boyars. Anything that has high stats and isn't infantry.