Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
That would be one of the many reasons I stay well away from the steppes or far east. As someone who's primarily an infantry general, horse-archers aren't something I want to deal with.
Yes, HA are bad news. Two strategies (for infantry) work against them - hiding behind stone walls (Greek tactic), or swamping them with vast hordes of cheap arrow fodder so the HAs run out of of arrows and then get owned in melee in the corner of the map (Persian tactic). Although your losses will be far worse than theirs.