Generally speaking, cherios are good for:
(1)Stupidly Long range (20)
(2)High pierce armor (50% as start)
(3)Ridicilious bonus damage against every single infantry, including destroyers ( 5X damage vs destroyers!!!)
(4)Good vs. Buildings for some strange reason.
There is a counter for eggy in heroic, a wierd counter, and probably the only real counter of cherios in the whole game. That is why eggy can own atty badly when executed well.
An experienced eggy player can usually make the atty player of the same level go insane, while he sits and sees the enemy units struggle. Same applies to when Oranos vs. zeus, zeus player will struggle badly most of time.
Other than eggy, you probably have to use either massive cavalaries with full pierce and mix anti-infantry to break through, or massive myth units, which would cost a lot and vulunerable to any atty heroes.
BTW, cherios will always be automatically positioned at the back of formation. So when you chase them, they will be exposed. Villagers on them, it is a viable solution as villagers get a small bonus on them, while they get nothing vs. villagers.
This is a weak counter vs. cherios for all races other than eggy, surely eggy can do it as well but they get better times to fight cherios.
Regards.
[This message has been edited by NiceHorus (edited 08-24-2007 @ 05:26 AM).]