Quote Originally Posted by Alusair View Post
The problem is, you're wiping out 100k scouts for probably around 30k~ archers per hit. If you can set up a scenario where you can hit the archers directly with a solid team of cataphracts/cavalry, you can do significantly much more damage. I've seen upwards of 250k (possibly 300k? can't remember) archers wiped out with a single 100k cataphract wave. Unfortunately I can't remember the cataphract losses, but they were the winning side.

A major issue is, of course, getting the defences whittled down so you can strike the archers with the cataphracts (unless you already know some of the more effective manners of doing so), but IMO it makes for a more impressive battle report when done.
i have seen 90k archers 9996 ctas 1worker 1 warrior 1 scout 1pikemen take out 1.2millon archers