Heavy Camel Rider

The Heavy Camel is the upgraded version of the Camel in Age of Empires II. It's stronger than the Camel with more hitpoints and attack. They are powerful against cavalry but nothing else.

Tactics
Camels are essentially mounted Spearmen, decimating their own kind as well as other units mounted on horses, donkeys, or anything else with four legs. Camels have an advanatage over Spearmen since they retain enough speed to prevent cavalry from escaping, at the cost of higher food and gold costs. Using Camels against civilizations that revolve around cavalry units, such as Franks, Saracens, Persians, and Mongols often lend great results. They can go head to head with other Imperial Age cavalry and defeat them in combat. However they are weak against Cataphracts, which are for the most part immune to the bonus damage from Camels. Heavy Camels inflict a slight amount of extra damage but will fail to kill them. Camels are best used only against melee cavalry, or to ambush groups of cavalry archers. Do not send them against infantry, archers, or spearmen in particular. Some players believe that Camels and Heavy Camels are good against buildings because they have a fast attack rate. However, they do not have a bonus versus buildings.