Desert Raider

==In game==
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Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.	
Light ranged cavalry, best used for flanking and attacking melee infantry or support units.
*Strong versus heavy infantry, especially melee units
*Weak versus missile units and cavalry.
Prereq: 	Build time 	HP 	LOS 	Attack 	Attack speed 	Movementspeed 	 	
 [3] 	13s(200t) 	115 	10 	20(2) 	2s(30t) 	30 	 	
Cost 	Cost 	Cost 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
Base 	Ramp 	Pop 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
: 50;
: 30 	: 1;: 1 	1 	 	2 	0–10 	
*Can fire while moving.
*Fires twice per attack.	 	
  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 
===Overall strategy===
For obvious reasons, European-style methods of cavalry warfare, relying on massed melee charges, are not popular with the Muslim civilisations of the Near East, and for obvious reasons too. Not only is the weather too warm for the wearing of Cuirassier-style armour, the lack of resources required for training, mounts and standardisation too is lacking in what are otherwise feudalistic backwaters with nary a shred of modern industry.
Thus, in lieu of Cuirassiers, Desert Raiders are raised by the Mameluke and Moroccan factions. They are not as fast as traditional European Carabiniers nor as tough as Cuirassiers, but they still carry immense punch in the form of their twin short-ranged pistols, and are as such capable of laying waste to opponents if used in hit-and-run attacks. The main task of these men is to enegage melee units at range, and to avoid entanglements with ranged units.
Category:Light cavalry