Talk:Siege Onager/@comment-106.105.136.18-20160701060836/@comment-27202541-20180509202300

Yeah, Halberdier + Siege Onager is one of the best combinations in the game, mainly due to the fact that Halberdiers are so cheap and don't cost gold, meaning you can invest most of your gold into SOs and then just cheaply spam halbs as a meatshield to defend the SOs.

Civs that can deal with halb+SO would be ones with Elite Eagle Warriors (Aztecs, Mayans, Incas), the Celts with their Elite Woad Raiders, possibly the Portuguese with their super good Bombard Cannons for sniping SOs, the Britons for their longbows killing the SOs from range, possibly Byzantines because Elite Cataphracts cannot be stopped by halbs if you have the gold for the catas, Goths for their Elite Huskarls, Malay for their Elite Karambit Warriors, and maybe Mongols with their Elite Mangudai. That's less than a third of the roster.