Are camels a good unit to have in army?

**DukeofSerbia** · 06-10-2006, 16:29

Archers are better for killing Jinetes. Berber camels can be only recruited in Norther Africa and archers can everywhere.

In vanilla RTW Cataphract Camelels are strongest mounted unit after elephants.

**Mithrandir** · 06-10-2006, 16:37

Yes, but archers can't succefully face off vs Jinettes in melee.

**DukeofSerbia** · 06-10-2006, 16:42

Muwahid foot soldiers.

But to be honest I never had problems with Jinets. They are too weak to survive rain of arrows as I always shoot them first...

**x-dANGEr** · 06-10-2006, 17:08

But they're problematic at the start when you can't field archers ;)

**Mithrandir** · 06-10-2006, 17:38

1 on 1 the jinnettes will win,
they're too fast to get shot up too badly...

**DukeofSerbia** · 06-11-2006, 09:37

Javelin armed units had drasticly lower range then archers, so archers always won. Jinettes are only good for armoured units.

And Berber camels can be only recruited in Northern Africa for historical reasons. And they are so expensive. They don't worth that money.

**Mithrandir** · 06-11-2006, 12:38

we're drifting off the original topic, but I think I've convinced all the nonebelievers with my essay ;)..so here goes :

Jinettes vs archers :

archers will get a chance to fire once, some jinettes may die, after that the jinettes are close enough to use their javelins, which means they're too close for the archers to shoot. Then it comes down to melee, which favours the jinettes.

**Fra** · 06-12-2006, 15:30

Originally Posted by DukeofSerbia

And Berber camels can be only recruited in Northern Africa for historical reasons. And they are so expensive. They don't worth that money.

Hmmm I like them, you get an archer unit without having to worry about mounted units too much, they are great little archer islands who can even chop up some weaker infantry.