Norse may have the upper hand in classical, but gets weaker in heroic.
No they don't if anything norse get stronger in heroic.
Hillforts, Jarls, Husks and Rams all better than there greek counterparts. All on top of the already better RC, Ta's,. Norse are the only one who can actually counter egypt in heroic. Greeks can't.
Hippokins can't handle RC's they certainly can't handle jarls. Prodromos are nearly as bad since they die horrably to anything not cav. All other greek counter units are useless against norse. Hypaspist are supposed to counter infantry but they get cut down awfully easy by TA's.
Petrobolos suck ***. There so damn expensive and it take about 2 seconds for jarls to ride threw your armie and kill them. While rams stroll right threw your armie as if it is'nt there and still take out a bunch of buildings.
And thats all assuming you can even aford the heroic jump, then still be able to afford to put up a castle then still be able to afford to make petrobo all fending the norse armie and there raids since before you could even get your first barracks down.
Oh and survive walking woods. wich making a heroe is'nt gonna do jack since walking woods can easily kill your heroe, pharoa and priests included. I love when people use that just make a heroe excuse right away you know they've never been on the other side of walking woods.
News flash for all the norse players. The only reasons norse seems weak to norse. Is because norse counter norse better than anyother civ.
Rams are easy to kill for norse players because TA's do hack damage. Other civs don't have a ranged unit that does hack damage. We can't get 20 Ta's to focus fire on one ram. All we can get is 2 or 3 crappy infantry or cav to hit the rams at any given time thats assuming we can catch up to the freaking thing.
Walking woods easy for norse to counter again 15-20 TA's doing ranged hack damage from a safe distance plus 3-4 hersirs can wipe the floor with those trees. The greeks only have 1 maybe two heroes if there luck and walking wood can and has killed both including the eggie pharoa and some priests. The other civ have to rely on pirece damaging units wich suck *** against those trees and the hack damagings ones can only get a few shots in at a time. And the trees kill them as well. Walking woods is pretty damn overpowering if your not Norse.
The same can be said about alot of norse things. Don't assume that just because its easy for norse to counter thats its easy for other civs to as well.