Talk:Caravel (Age of Empires II)/@comment-27426837-20151221003400

"One on one a Caravel will generally win over a War Galley". I don't own the African Kingdoms Expansion, however that does not seem true for me, as a calculation using the unit stats yields a clear victory for the war galley (unless the caravel attacks much faster), therefore either the quoted sentence or the unit stats are wrong. Also, if a caravel would defeat a war galley one on one, it would be completely overpowered in larger engagements due to its ability to attack multiple ships at once.

The "Tactics" part also doesn't seem logical to me, but I am no expert. However, comparing the attacks of Caraval and Galley line I would expect that the Caravel might be useful against Fire Ships and Demo Ships, just like the scorpion being good against melee units, while being weak against the Galley line because they tend to form a firing arc, where a piercing bolt only hits one unit unless coming from the flank. Also, Caravels are probably very effective against units at the shoreline or on shallows, but seem to be quite ineffective against buildings. Comparing Caravels and Galleons like in the article doesn't make sense to me.