Just a quick friendly reminder...

**Shahed** · 05-10-2007, 04:16

Lol !

**Roark** · 05-10-2007, 10:19

Camels: when you absolutely, positively have to freak out expensive enemy cavalry!

**Martok** · 05-10-2007, 23:20

Clearly, Whacker hasn't spent enough time cleaning the stables lately; looks like we'll have to rectify that straight away.

I've assigned Cambyses II as your overseer. If you ask him *real* nicely, he might even give you a small trowel to use instead of just your bare hands.

Originally Posted by Roark

Camels: when you absolutely, positively have to freak out expensive enemy cavalry!

**caravel** · 05-11-2007, 10:30

Originally Posted by Martok

I've assigned Cambyses II as your overseer. If you ask him *real* nicely, he might even give you a small trowel to use instead of just your bare hands.

The last "men" you sent me have now died from exhaustion so... just in time. As to the trowel, I'm not sure about that... I think the special 1" scraper with "and you thought camels stank?" engraved on the handle might be more fitting. I may also allow him a fly swatter, not that it will help a lot.

**macsen rufus** · 05-11-2007, 14:05

I think the special 1" scraper with "and you thought camels stank?" engraved on the handle might be more fitting. I may also allow him a fly swatter, not that it will help a lot.

Too generous, I think chopsticks would be more fitting....

**R'as al Ghul** · 05-11-2007, 15:19

It's time again:

Who said Camels stink? I can smell only Gunpowder....

**Whacker** · 05-11-2007, 16:16

Originally Posted by Martok

Clearly, Whacker hasn't spent enough time cleaning the stables lately; looks like we'll have to rectify that straight away.

I've assigned Cambyses II as your overseer. If you ask him *real* nicely, he might even give you a small trowel to use instead of just your bare hands.

But But but but but!!!!

An army of cheap Camels lurches like a mirage, all windy smells and bandy legs and prays to the assorted (and expensive) Franks; berating the dimwitted, sweaty, pox-cheeked foe, ultimately a laughing starts amongst the dinkum armour, before they call to their deaths the infirm band of the Bedouin that *hits itself fast in the desert like lightning, mounted on its dirty, imprudent and smelly beast that knows no tiredness for dirt and fear.

May the Christian God show some mercy on them in the afterlife - for Salahadin will show none for this.

Muaahhaah!!! That's what my special all-purpose amphibious extra-omgwtflole high-accuracy trebuchets are designed for! Whacker's Amphibious Trebuchets©! When you absolutely, positive, have to kill every camel on the battlefield!

It's time again:

*hilarious pic)

Who said Camels stink? I can smell only Gunpowder....

I love that pic!

You know the thing that always comes to mind when I see that. Remember Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? When they just escaped the zeppelin and Sean Connery was in the back shooting at the FW-109s? And he hoses up the tailplane assembly? Tilt the gun in that pic down about 33 degrees....

"I'm sorry Saladin! They got us!"

**Vytautas Lietuva** · 05-18-2007, 11:20

Heh, I remember when I spread my hobilars out into a 1-horse thin formation, and charged down at some stationary Bedouin camels. It was the best damn charge I ever saw, really.

The only reason your cavalry haven't been flogged by camels is because you don't know how to use them correctly, period.

**nara shikamaru** · 05-19-2007, 06:39

This is a very interesting thread, but I don't like horses more then camels and vice versa. This is because if i can have both on a field, and work in tandem perfectly together, then the enemy is sunk.

One tactic i remember trying was the battle for Jerusalem as the French, it was a crusade, and before the crusade moved out i bought some merc Bedouins, at least i think they were. I had about 3-5 camels with me along with alot of hobilars and I got me 4 Knights templar, and various other foot units equalling about 5500 men, compared to the Turkish 2000 or so waiting. Well I found one thing worked, the Sultan's 1st wave was mostly horse units, Turcoples, and the such, and well I had all the camels out 1st, I had them charge at the enemy horses, who surprisingly broke formation, before impact. I then sent some Hobilars, and the 2 of the templar units around the enemy and did a pincer of sorts.

It was a great victory, my camels helped to disrupt the enemy units, and my other cav and inf came in to get them in the classic hammer and anvil. One other surprise is, of the bedoiun mercs i had, i lost more from desertion then to the actual battles to take and hold Jerusalem.

Point to the mini story? Don't knock a unit that can make the enemy run in terror. Also the greater point, all units are great, and deserve reverence, even a unit of urban militia can spell the difference between defeat, and victory.

**seireikhaan** · 05-20-2007, 01:21

Originally Posted by nara shikamaru

Also the greater point, all units are great, and deserve reverence, even a unit of urban militia can spell the difference between defeat, and victory.

I would like to heartily disagree with that statement. Peasants have NEVER been a momentum shifter for me. I mean really, is there a unit in the game they can beat? I've gone and beaten 1,700 peasants with a mere 320 men in battles for some of those Russian provinces. In fact, it wasn't even a real battle. It was a total laugher, I lost about 18 soldiers to their 800. The rest of the peasant fled in fear before I could even get a chance to fight them! Not to mention, I've had peasants route when they are flanking an enemy unit, because even when flanking they still get their butts kicked.