Praise to the camel!

[ichi]

When MTW came out I played a lot of campaigns before going online, and had decided that camels were cheap (therefore poorer in quality than expensive knights) slow (I like speed) big (vulnerable to missiles) and low morale (easy to rout).

I hadn't been using them to their best advantage when I campaigned as Muslims, and to top it off I had failed to realize that the AI isn't really very good (compared to some humans) at using Camels either.

So, when I went online and faced some camels I got my horses ass handed to me (prolly more than once by Mith lol) and online the routing of your cav can lead to a chain rout of your entire army. Well I'm a fast relatively fast learner (ignore howls of laughter from the balcony please) and soon came to respect these ugly awful stinky spitty humpy beasts and their peasant riders.

To this day I really only dread facing JHI, CFKs, and Camels. Sure there are other units like LBs, VG, Swiss Pikes, Gothic Knights that I pay close attention to, but when I see JHI or CFKs I immediately try to focus my missiles on them because they can hold their own against infantry and really rip up horsies.

Of course Camels are vulnerable to missiles (and, like equestrians, to polearms like JHI).

But, even today, Camels make up an important anti-cav portion of some elite armies online. The fact that after after a few years some of the best online players still rely on Camels is a testiment indeed.



ichi