Talk:Cataphract (Age of Empires II)/@comment-67.142.163.26-20150506004835/@comment-181.64.13.73-20150625005138

Not at all, surely the FU cataphract can beat a samurai 1vs1, but the samurai is far cheaper and is produced more quickly, same can be said about japanese halberdiers, which are just deadly against any cavalry with that +25%attack speed. 2 samurai vs 1cat, the samurais always win. So, an army of japanese halberdiers+samurai shouldn't have any problems to annihilate cataphracts while preserving your economy.

The only civilizations that have problems against cataphracts are those that do not have neither the halberdier upgrade or paladins. An example of this are the aztecs, which really suffer to find a counter against byzantines even with their +4 attack.