Dahae Melee Cavalry

Dahae Heavy Camelry

Enclosed by all sides by fellow nomads, the Dahae have resorted to utilizing the heavy, double-humped Bactrian camel as a weapon of war, scaring the pony horse mounts of the other steppe people to great effect. Saka, Szemerényi relates to an Iranian verbal root, sak-, "go, roam", and hypothesizes that the Achaemenids used "nomad" to refer to the northern tribes, rather than their endonym. The modern region of Sistan in eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan takes its name from the classical Sakestan ("land of the Saka"). Sakestan was not the only province of Scythian origin on the eastern margin of the Persian Empire. According to Szemerényi, Sogdiana was named from the Skuda form.

Unit Name Dahae Heavy Camelry

Main Unit Key Ste_Dahae_Heavy_Camelry

Land Unit Key Ste_Dahae_Heavy_Camelry

Naval Unit Key barbarian_transport

Soldiers 90

Category Cavalry

Class Melee Cavalry

Custom Battle Cost 750

Recruitment Cost 750

Upkeep Cost 85

Melee Attack 27

Weapon Damage 29

├ Melee Weapon rome_spear

├ Melee Damage Base 19

├ Melee Damage Ap 10

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Large 15

├ Bonus vs Elephants 16

└ Bonus vs Infantry 0

Charge Bonus 43

Melee Defence 56

├ Base Defence 30

├ Shield hoplite

└ Shield Defence 26

Armour 100

├ Armour mail

├ Armour Defence 57

└ Shield Armour 43

Health 130

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_heavy

├ Man Health 55

├ Bonus Hit Points 15

├ Mount roman_camel_spear

├ Mount Entity rome_camel

└ Mount Health 60

Base Morale 45

Abilities

• Trample
  Charges are more effective for an extended time.
  Charge bonus
  Exertion: fatigue
• Frenzied Charge
  Increases the effectiveness of the unit's charge for an extended period. The unit will suffer a large fatigue penalty after the charge is over.
  Charge speed, charge damage, acceleration
  Melee defence, fatigue

Attributes

• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
• Resistant to Heat
  This unit tires less quickly in the desert.
• Scare (horses)
  This unit gives a morale penalty to enemy horses.

Strengths & Weaknesses

• Very poor hull strength
• Very slow speed
• Weak ramming

• Good attack
• Average defence
• Low damage but average armour penetration
• Average morale

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Horse Pens (barb_agriculture_horse_2) Level 1 Stables (barb_agriculture_horse_3) Level 2 Coin Mint (barb_artisan_coin_3) Level 2
Lv. 1	Horse Ranch (barb_agriculture_horse_4) Level 3 Coin Hoard (barb_artisan_coin_4) Level 3

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Dahae