Camels

[Team Sleep]

I've been playing the mod for over a month now and it just hit me. Where are all the camel units? Now I understand that there is a limit to the amount of units that can be made. But is this the reason for their absence in the game? I'm thinking that surely they're documented in history enough and well enough to have been included in the mod. I think they're role as desert cavalry would have been well put to use in this mod. Perhaps given bonuses to horse cavalry units and perhaps being more hardy in desert areas. I just wonder what was the thought process of leaving them out...or maybe it has slipped the EB team's collective mind...as it has mine until now. So where are they and why aren't they here? Can we expect to see camel units in EBII?

Also I was wondering...What about in India? Was it true that Rhinos were used in battle...I have found little record of it myself. Yet, in some sources I have seen it suggested...but I'm not sure about how reputable those sources are or how the animal would have even been employed.

[athanaric]

Camels

Will be in EB II. Or at least some team members have said IIRC. However, in EB's time period they were mostly used as pack animals, not as combat vehicles. Apparently the widespread use of camel riders in battle started later, though perhaps you will see some Bedouin camel unit in EB II.

[Anubis88]

Camels were very rarely used in combat at this time. They were used in small numbers at Magnesia, but i can't remember another battle in EB's time frame that they were used, and i think this is the reason the team didn't include them. It would be nice to have them, but they were just not important enough to use a slot.

As for the rhnos :S... I dunno. Sounds like a really far fetched theory. If you can post proof that would be most interesting