Howdah (Age of Empires III)

The Howdah is an Indian ranged Cavalry unit in Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties that has a large amount of hit points, and a huge ranged attack. They can kill a Cavalry unit in only a few shots, and are incredibly durable, but they are very slow for ranged cavalry units, and are hard to micro, balancing out their incredible military power. The Howdah is an excellent counter to Hand Cavalry and Artillery, and does well against most units, although they should stay out of melee combat with Heavy Infantry, and should stay away from ranged infantry all together. The Howdah also has a quite high siege attack for a ranged Cavalry unit, and a group of them can do a fairly good job of taking out buildings.