Talk:Cataphract (Age of Empires II)/@comment-27202541-20160912040519/@comment-27726014-20180619063322

Indeed. Cataphracts have quite mediocre stats for their cost. Their strength comes from the fact that they aren't as easily countered by the typical things that eliminate cavelry. You can't use clever tactics against cataphracts, you need to use the brute force method.

So powerful units like elephants, paladins or indeed Mamelukes are the best way to go against them.