Franks vs Mayans: How to deal with eagles+pikes?

I playing as the Franks went for knights + elite skirms thinking that the skirms will counter the pikes and potential archers and knights counter eagles. That turned out to be a disaster. The thing is that my opponent can always go for archers if I switch into longswords; and knights and longswords would be too expensive. Axeman works too but I had zero on stone. Knights and scorps could also work but I feel like scorps get killed too easily by eagles (if they come from different directions and such). What are your thoughts?