What counters horse archers?

[Ash//Fox]

It's the one unit I draw a blank on, I would try light horses but they just run away and kite me.

[Heimdall313]

Archers. They're cheaper, they trade well, they're ranged. Its not an actual counter but they do win.
Also, walls.

[Antpile]

Yep, just your own bigger archer blob. Horse archers, or at least the Rus early game that lets people rush to them so quickly, are a bit busted right now. I expect some sort of nerfs to this Rus strat at some point.

[Harris]

Horsemen, but be smart and get several groups of those and surround the horse archer blob to deny kite.

[0m3g4T0mH4nks]

Originally posted by Harris:

Horsemen, but be smart and get several groups of those and surround the horse archer blob to deny kite.

lul

[Heimdall313]

You can flank with horses yes but mostly you want to deny area to them with archer blob. you could try to plant horses in the escape path.
Mostly, palisades to choke a bit and archers to displace them. Rus can't shoot and move at same time so if its forced to move its zero dps.
Rus horse archers are pretty fun though, not gonna lie, but life sucks when the armored meat comes out.

[Subtle Butt ( >ω<)っ ♡]

Realistically its walls and outposts. They outrange archers and cost the same amount of wood. If you have longbows then longbows ♥♥♥♥ on horse archers. Else, you can try and zone him out with horsemen or knights/lancer.

[youtube khorix]

After playing many games vs RUS the experienced I've accumulated tells me that booming/making archers and denying relics/sacred sites with walls, Can help you get a good early to mid game, And if you make it right you can get a win.

Here is a video which you may use as knowledge to apply to your own gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOnKo-mAFWY

[Aluminum Elite Master]

Originally posted by Harris:

Horsemen, but be smart and get several groups of those and surround the horse archer blob to deny kite.

This, but it doesn't always work perfectly. Sometimes the horse archers are themselves not in a blob, but are in several control groups so as to make it hard to surround them all.

But horsemen are a decent counter enough of the time if you micro well.