It’s happening again, the world has started rolling over from the 21st to the 22nd of June, and that means it’s World Camel Day! World Camel Day is a day celebrating the importance of camels in agriculture, economy and real-time strategy games. Whether they’re Bactrian camels, dromedary camels, or even South American camelids, every hairy smelly spitting beast is celebrated today. We from the more camels platform would like to wish you all a happy World Camel Day. If you’re playing aoe2 today, think about picking a camel civ.
And to the devs a happy World Camel Day too! Thanks for the trebuchet camels! I honestly would never have guessed that was the next move.
(I never did get good enough at modding to get Camel Nothing to work properly. Ah well, you only appreciate the oasis because of the desert in between.)
It would be negligible, when you consider an elephant only yields around 6x as much food as a chicken, which I’m pretty sure doesn’t match the IRL ratio…
We have polish husaars and dhomey amazons ingame so this too can pass.
That guy is a sniper on a camel,correct unit should be mounted with a small canon.
Camel archer has a bonus against cavalry archers,zaumbark or camel skirmisher can have something else as a bonus affecting cavalry units.
Do you think they should be herdable or huntable? They’re huntable in HyperRandom, but maybe herdable makes more sense. (I suppose they could be both, like chickens, but I don’t like this feature of chickens, and I don’t know why the devs think wild chickens are a thing.)
I don’t find this argument convincing. Polish/winged hussars are from the 16th century, which is within the normally accepted time frame. Gbetos seem to be some fictional/conjectural medieval precursor to the Dahomey Amazons. But even if I accept that both units are too late for AoE2, that doesn’t mean I want more anachronistic units to be added.
Herdable I feel makes a little more real world sense. Camels have a pretty long domesticated history and wild dromedary camels are actually extinct (though there are feral populations descended from domesticated ones.) In terms of gameplay I could see them as either a cow/water buffalo equivalent, a deer equivalent or maybe even some sort of boar? (Non-serious idea: a ranged boar equivalent, with a weak but ranged spit attack.)
They are “of course” currently already a horse equivalent, an unarmed scout with more speed than herdables, that’s pretty cool too. The idea of just giving those units a food value and placing them on maps instead of other herdables is a funny thought, I’m not sure if that isn’t a little bit too much scouting value from herdables though.
Admittedly I only briefly Googled it/skimmed some Wikipedia pages, but from what I read, 17th century at the earliest, probably more like 18th century.
Also “elephant mounted cannons” is technically true, but these would be relatively small cannons transported into battle on an elephant, then unloaded before firing.
I suppose if every player had the same scouting advantage, on one specific random map that had these camels, it would be fine. I was just imagining a reskinned cow, though.
