How to counter massed eagle warriors?

[Zetnus]

Swordsmen seem like the cheapest way to go, but they're not fast enough to chase down eagle warriors marauding around your base. What about heavy cavalry?

[DarK | Adélie]

Two-Handed Swordsmen and Champions with their +6 attack vs. Eagles are in theory the best way to go, but indeed they are very slow.

Elite Eagles got a +4 bonus vs Cav, though even Mayan ones stand no chance against Paladins. But it isn't cost effective to mass paladins to counter mass EEW.
Honestly the best way is just Stone Walling your base when you know an Aztec or a Mayan goes Imp 11

Or if you have the chance to have a civ with fast Infantry/fast produced infantry (Celts Woads, Goth Huskarls, Samurai ♥♥♥♥), they you have straight, great counters to EEW.
Not mentioning Cataphracts which are just the ultimate counter to EEW.

Elite Berserks with their same speed than Huskarls and their 2+3 melee and 14+4 attack would work in the Forgotten, on normal AoC though they are way too slooooow to create.

[Loggy]

Hand cannoneers might be worth considering also, but then again I don't really have that much experience with this...

[Zetnus]

Alright, so using Two-Handed Swordsmen or Champions (or the appropriate unique units) combined with effective walling to keep the EEW out or to funnel them to specific chokepoints should do the trick.

I asked this question because I was in a FFA game (as Britons by chance) and my army initially consisted of longbowmen and halbs and mangonels before I was attacked. :P I tried switching to cavaliers, but couldn't get production up in time.

[robo_boro]

as Loggy said Handcannons are still good as eagles are infantry, but be wary of aztec onagers flinging some bad rocks at you.

[Vash]

Cataphract (Byzantines), Janissary (Turks), Conquistadores (Spanish), hand cannoneers is all good against eagle warriors. If they run against you in a cluster, scorpions (5+) might take some of them down. : )

[TheLazyVillager]

hand cannons, samurai, champion, or jaguar warrior. take your pick

[hot_gril]

Are you sure paladins aren't cost-effective against them? I'd be surprised.

[GrimDaReaper]

chu ko nos

[FoxMelody]

Originally posted by TWO OF HEARTS:

chu ko nos

But this is an unique unit. -.- All other nations don't have it available.

[GrimDaReaper]

if you dont play chineese you suck anyway. ching song.

[gagman]

Counter with: Infantry & Hand Canoneer.
if you use maya counter with Jaguar Warrior
if you use turks counter with Jannisary
if you use inkas counter with Slinger
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dont counter with: Archers, Monks, Siege Units

[Ravensec]

I suggest using slingers and even your own spear units (pikeman, spearman, skirmisher) to counter them, if you get lots of archers from behind your melee units and have them fire while they stab the eagle units.

[Celestine]

If you're playing as the japanese don't use the samurai. I made that mistake thinking I'd get a huge attack bonus but it turns out they actually get less damage bonus against eagles than regular infantry.

[GrimDaReaper]

Originally posted by Crusader_23:

If you're playing as the japanese don't use the samurai. I made that mistake thinking I'd get a huge attack bonus but it turns out they actually get less damage bonus against eagles than regular infantry.

everyone knows two handed swordman mass is better.

[♥Fluffy♥]

Originally posted by Zetnus:

Swordsmen seem like the cheapest way to go, but they're not fast enough to chase down eagle warriors marauding around your base. What about heavy cavalry?

Any infantry can easly work against Eagle warriors, However the best troop to go against them would be the Elite Woad Raider (Celts) because one of there special ability is that all Infantry move 15% faster. The Teutonic Knights (or Elite) can also kill down the Eagle warrios, but they are slow but yet powerful thats if the Aztec/Mayans want to stand up and fight.