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>Cataphracts are a bad option against horse archers. The horse archers are lighter and faster so they'll just kite the cataphracts.

Horseniggers used cataphracts. A lot. If you are a noble horsenig you went to battle as a cataphract while poor horsenigs went about as lightly armored cavalry.

They are where the Chinese got the idea of having their own Cats in the first place.