| This article is about the cavalry armor class. For general information about cavalry in Age of Empires II, see Cavalry units (Age of Empires II). |
The cavalry armor class is an armor class in Age of Empires II. All units that have an attack bonus against this class deal bonus damage against units with this armor class.
Cavalry units 
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The following units have the cavalry armor class and take bonus damage from attacks against this class. The number in brackets indicates the amount of armor. If there is no number, the amount is 0.
Cavalry Archer - 
Heavy Cavalry Archer
Genitour - Elite Genitour (Berbers and allies only)
- Scout Cavalry - Light Cavalry - Hussar
- Knight - Cavalier - Paladin
- Battle Elephant - Elite Battle Elephant
- Cataphract (12) - Elite Cataphract (16) (Byzantines only)
- Mangudai - Elite Mangudai (Mongols only)
- War Elephant - Elite War Elephant (Persians only)
- Mameluke (11) - Elite Mameluke (11) (Saracens only)
- Tarkan - Elite Tarkan (Huns only)
- War Wagon - Elite War Wagon (Koreans only)
- Conquistador - Elite Conquistador (Spanish only)
- Missionary (Spanish only)
- Elephant Archer - Elite Elephant Archer (Indians only)
- Magyar Huszar - Elite Magyar Huszar (Magyars only)
- Boyar - Elite Boyar (Slavs only)
- Arambai - Elite Arambai (Burmese only)
- Ballista Elephant (-2) - Elite Ballista Elephant (-2) (Khmer only)
Anti-cavalry units Edit
The following units have an attack bonus against the cavalry armor class. They are sorted descending by the amount of bonus damage they deal. Units with +0 damage are also listed because that results in a bonus damage when they attack Ballista Elephants due to their negative cavalry armor.
+32 bonus attack
+22 bonus attack
+18 bonus attack
- Heavy Camel - Imperial Camel (the latter Indians only)
+15 bonus attack
+12 bonus attack
- Elite Mameluke (Saracens only)
- Elite Kamayuk (Incas only)
+9 bonus attack
+8 bonus attack
+7 bonus attack
+5 bonus attack
- Genoese Crossbowman (Italians only)
+4 bonus attack
+3 bonus attack
+0 bonus attack
- Militia - Man-at-Arms - - Long Swordsman - Two-Handed Swordsman - Champion
- Eagle Scout
- Condottiero (Italians and allies only)
- Chu Ko Nu - Elite Chu Ko Nu (Chinese only)
- Berserk - Elite Berserk (Vikings only)
- Jaguar Warrior - Elite Jaguar Warrior (Aztecs only)
Technologies Edit
The following technologies give the following units an attack bonus against cavalry:
- Chieftains (Vikings only)
- +5 bonus attack
- Militia - Man-at-Arms - Long Swordsman - Two-Handed Swordsman - Champion
- Spearman - Pikeman
- Berserk - Elite Berserk (Vikings only)
- Condottiero (only available if allied with Italians)
- +5 bonus attack
