GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Halberdier cavalry-stop line
Halberdier: Halberdiers are a high-impact answer when cavalry or elephants form the opponent’s main army. Their upgrade is most valuable when enough enemy cavalry exists to justify its cost, and a few Halberdiers can make a larger force reconsider a direct charge.
Overview
Halberdier: Halberdiers are a high-impact answer when cavalry or elephants form the opponent’s main army. Their upgrade is most valuable when enough enemy cavalry exists to justify its cost, and a few Halberdiers can make a larger force reconsider a direct charge.
Plan and execution
Place Halberdiers where they protect ranged units, Villagers, or siege from mounted attacks. Hold them near the unit they must screen instead of chasing faster cavalry, then bring them forward with the main army once the opponent commits. Research the upgrade when it changes the next major fight, especially against an elephant-heavy composition.
Risks and adaptation
Halberdiers are slow and can be kited by ranged units. They do not solve the whole army composition; pair them with a unit that can pressure archers and avoid spending heavily on the upgrade when the opponent has little cavalry.
- Focus
- Anti-cavalry formation
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies