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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    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.
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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    They're alright to have in an army, I personally like their toes...
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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    Quote 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.
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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    In the original rome total the armenians had cataphract camels which were good to have because they were better than the regular cataphracts
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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    Parthia, not Armenia.
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    Quote 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.

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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    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.

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    Welcome to the bOrg Animal, you will now be assimilated.
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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    Quote 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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    Default Re: Are camels a good unit to have in army?

    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....

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