How to beat a mass of scorpions?

[JDaniels]

So I'm having a bad time with the AI... it amasses insane amounts of scorpions, I can't even get near. Ideias how to beat it? Thx in advance.

[GAMOX | Valmontis]

Heavy cavalry.

[Tempires]

mangonel

[[T.R.] James]

Onagers
Long Bowmen
Paladins
Trebuchets (if u are britons, with warwolf)
Ratan archers
Elephants
Bombard cannons
Siege Rams

[Dalv]

Siege Onagers or just Onagers will take care of them

[JDaniels]

Thankyou guys for the quick replys! Mago gave me pretty ideas...
My thoughts so far:

(siege) onagers are bad choice as they typically just do 1 hit before dying and the trade is bad.
Paladins seems to be ok, elephants also, depending on what else the AI throws. I'm liking these bad bois lol
as for trebuchets, I think the best are really ♥♥♥♥/huns, right? [idk what warwolf does]

[tomasoltis]

warwolf for some reason messes up their inaccuracy and gives some AoE, but since it shoots no longer randomly, I dont like it rly. But when shooting at tower it suddely can miss.

[🤗]

Siege onagers certainly aren't a bad choice, they're easily the most efficient unit vs heavy scorpions.

[Nhika]

Play on arabia, not that noob black forest ♥♥♥♥ :>

[saadburney]

Heavy Cavalry, preferrable Knights or just take Teutonic Knights.

[Cescipion 🐕]

I agree with all the options, but there is another, very inefficient. Make more scorpions than the IA lol

Also, mangudai have a bonus vs siege weapons :)

[tomasoltis]

Maďar husár has antisiege too

[supersand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Z0BTmzRgg

this video goes over different unit types to see which is most cost effective against mass scorpions / for mass scorpions

[talgaby]

Elephants are not the best choice. Heck, scorpions are often used specifically as an elephant counter…

Heavy cavalry usually works fine. Magyar huszárs are… not really, despite their speed and damage bonus, they do not last long enough to get near the scorpions, when there is a large enough pack of them.
2-3 siege onagers do wonders, if you manually aim them.

Against the AI, you can send some rams to soak up the scorpion fire as well, rams always attract high aggression.

[El_Tres]

Cannons with meat shield is the obvious choice. But Onager or SO work just as well.

[El_Tres]

If you are only making one unit type you will fail. You always need at least 2 types, and usually 4 different types.