Camel Archer

The Camel Archer is a unique unit for the Berbers in Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms. The camel archer has an attack bonus against cavalry archers.

Further Statistics
The Camel Archer is a mounted archer Unique Unit, similar to the Mongols' Mangudai. In comparison to the Mangudai, the Camel Archer comes at slightly lower cost and with overall better or equal stats. The Mangudai only fires a bit faster. It performs better against most units, especially other cavalry archers. The Mangudai has an edge over the Camel Archer against siege units, especially Rams.

A fully upgraded Elite Camel Archer somewhat lags behind a fully upgraded Mangudai, and only performs better against cavalry archers. The Elite Mangudai moves and fires faster, but has slightly lower hit points. It has more armor because of the Parthian Tactics upgrade and has no delay from movement to firing.

The Camel Archer should be used in conjuntion with the Berbers' cheaper stable units depending on the enemy's army. Camels can be used to counter cavalry, and also profit from the Maghrabi Camels upgrade. Units from the Scout Cavalry line are cheap and can counter monks, siege and archers. Knights can be used against foot soldiers.

Genitours make for an okay replacement for Camel Archers when gold is rare. It is always a smart idea to pair these units to divert enemy attacks from the precious Camel Archers and supply additional firepower.

Camel Archers are a good support for infantry and siege, because those are the primary targets of cavalry archers.

Counters
Camel Archers can be countered with skirmishers, light cavalry and, when massed, with Mangonels and Scorpions. Camels deal no bonus against them. Genitours deal bonus damage against Camel Archers, but also receive a large amount of bonus damage from them, so they should not be used as a direct counter.