GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Heavy Camel Rider cavalry-counter patrol
Heavy Camel Rider: Heavy Camel Riders offer a mobile way to challenge cavalry and mounted archers, and they can force an engagement more readily than slow infantry counters. Use them to protect the army’s vulnerable ranged or siege units.
Overview
Heavy Camel Rider: Heavy Camel Riders offer a mobile way to challenge cavalry and mounted archers, and they can force an engagement more readily than slow infantry counters. Use them to protect the army’s vulnerable ranged or siege units.
Plan and execution
Scout the opposing Stable production, then keep Camels near the routes where enemy cavalry can dive your economy or backline. Move as a group to intercept mounted units and use the speed advantage to threaten a retreating cavalry force without splitting into isolated pairs.
Risks and adaptation
Spearmen still punish Camel Riders, and ranged units can attack them while they approach. Do not send Camels through a protected choke or chase a mixed army beyond the support of your own force.
- Focus
- Anti-cavalry mobile defense
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies