Talk:Elephant Archer (Age of Empires II)/@comment-120.148.206.171-20180801095913/@comment-2001:8003:54A9:AE00:64DC:7FA7:E6DA:DCCD-20180804094214

Imperial camels aren't available in the castle age which is when good players engage in heavy battle. This leaves the weak camel with low armour and attack to try to take on the role of the knight. (Ever tried a camel rush? It's short, expensive, and funny (for the player being rushed)).

Indians have a very slow and weak castle age army. Without knights and with slow low ranged EAs they lack speed and versatility for Many common battlefield challenges like rushing the enemy, quickly destroying siege (and getting away before pike arrive or archers complety drain the camel's HP), hit and run etc. etc. etc.

They need at least knights (like the Saracens) and faster EAs to balance out their castle age army so they stand a chance of surviving the castle age to get to their imperial age units.