Talk:Spanish (Age of Empires II)/@comment-70.51.33.241-20120102063353/@comment-108.170.150.217-20141113081432

Aren't that durable? Are you kidding me? 2/2 armor and 75 HP, and 90 HP for elites?

That's higher than any horse archer.

Throwing knights alone at them is terrible for a number of reasons. If anything conqs COUNTER knights. Huge damage per shot means each volley will take out 1-2 knights, and their mobility ensures they'll stay out of harms reach. You'll be practically wasting knights chasing them across the fields.

Counter them the same way you would any other ranged unit. Onagers or mass scorpions. Since conqs are expensive and slow training, he can't afford to lose them en mass to splash damage.

If you're playing an Indian civ, arbs and eagles are your best bet. Alternatively a mass of arbs will do, make sure to screen them with halbs and try to keep them out of range of gunfire. Heavy horse archers work quite well too.

There's no easy way to "counter" conqs, they really are that OP of a unit. Thankfully, much like in real life, a Spanish player would be practically eating through his treasury  training palas+conqs and bombards, so usually in attrition fights they'll be the first to go.