Heavy Camel Rider

Overview

A stronger camel upgrade for sustained fights against mounted armies.

Availability and investment

Heavy Camel Rider becomes available in Imperial Age. Its listed production context is Stable. The listed cost is 55 Food, 60 Gold and the training time is 22 seconds. This tells you when it can first join an army and which resources must be reserved alongside Villager production, upgrades, and other military lines.

• Upgrade path: Camel Rider → Heavy Camel Rider; Imperial Camel Rider (Hindustanis)

Combat profile

The available combat values are included here so the numbers can be read as a profile rather than an isolated list. Hit points and armor describe how long the unit can remain exposed; attack and any bonus damage describe what it threatens; range, reload, accuracy, and movement describe how reliably it can engage or disengage. A value shown for a whole upgrade line applies to the listed stages as recorded, so compare the stage names instead of treating the line as one base unit.

• Hit points: 120
• Melee armor: 0
• Pierce armor: 0
• Line of sight: 5
• Reload time: 2 seconds
• Movement speed: 1.45

Field use

Choose engagements against mounted units or other targets named by its bonus-attack entry. Its low cost and matchup bonus are most useful when it protects a more expensive army or blocks a cavalry approach.

Armor classes and counters

Armor-class bonuses are separate from base attack and the target’s melee or pierce armor. The class list below shows the unit’s documented combat categories and bonus-damage relationships; use it to judge matchups instead of relying on the unit label alone.

• Armor class: Camel Units
• Heavy Camel Rider deals +18 bonus damage to units in the Cavalry class
• Heavy Camel Rider deals +9 bonus damage to units in the Camel Units class
• Heavy Camel Rider deals +9 bonus damage to units in the Ship class
• Heavy Camel Rider deals +9 bonus damage to units in the Fishing Ship class
• Heavy Camel Rider deals +7 bonus damage to units in the Mameluke class

Related unit plan: 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 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 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