Are camels a good unit to have in army?

**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.

**Devastatin Dave** · 06-12-2006, 15:27

They're alright to have in an army, I personally like their toes...

**DukeofSerbia** · 06-12-2006, 20:12

Originally Posted by Mithrandir

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.

But there is no army consisted only from archers. AI never send Jinetes to fight. Only if is desperate.

Canclusion:
Bedouin Camels are great and cheap horse killers for 125 florins if you are Turks and 92 if you are Egypt.
Berber Camels don't worth 300 florins.

**Andejar** · 06-15-2006, 00:52

In the original rome total the armenians had cataphract camels which were good to have because they were better than the regular cataphracts

**DukeofSerbia** · 06-15-2006, 11:54

Parthia, not Armenia.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 06-15-2006, 15:39

Originally Posted by Andejar

In the original rome total the armenians had cataphract camels which were good to have because they were better than the regular cataphracts

their charge is worst than the regular cataphracts.

**Animal** · 06-22-2006, 23:20

Camels are good in deserts, against Heavy Horses and routing troops.

They are weak vs infantry, missiles, missiles cav, and even light cav.

Unless you use them for specifically what they are for, they will lose. Even a flank attack gets you in trouble.

**Mithrandir** · 06-23-2006, 00:17

Welcome to the bOrg Animal, you will now be assimilated.

**Mithrandir** · 06-23-2006, 00:23

Originally Posted by Animal

Camels are good in deserts, against Heavy Horses and routing troops.

They are weak vs infantry, missiles, missiles cav, and even light cav.

Unless you use them for specifically what they are for, they will lose. Even a flank attack gets you in trouble.

Camels are great in any terrain, true they get a bonus in desert, but that doesn;t mean they don't win on Lush as well.

They do even better vs light cavelry than vs heavy cavelry and pretty decent flankers. Only point you rightfully made is that they need to take care not to get caught by archers.

Don;t take this the wrong way..it's just my purpose here on the Org to let everyone know how good camels are

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-Mithrandir.

**bamff** · 06-23-2006, 02:27

Okay Mithrandir, as the resident org expert on all things camel, is there an appreciable difference between the camel units of the Muslim factions? For example, are Turkish camels better or worse than Eggy camels?

I'm aiming to have a crack at the Turks after I finish my current Danish campaign....