# Beasts of Burden and War
*The Stable, Mounts, Barding, and Mounted Combat for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/the-stable/beasts-of-burden-and-war*
Everything that is not a horse and still earns its keep: camels, cattle, deer, dogs, and elephants.
Most of these are bought to carry or pull, and the **Draft** and **Pack Animal** traits are what matter. Three are bought to fight.
##### Camel
Dromedary, ship of the desert
2
2
11
2
0 / 0
22
3 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
25
400
Common
Camelid, Light
Desert-Bred, Enduring, Temper 1
- **Attacks:** Bite (Unarmed; Damage 3; Crit 5)
A one-humped camel carries more than a horse across country that would kill one. It treats desert as open country and needs water once every three days. **Temper 1** is for riders it does not know.
##### Hill Camel
Bactrian, two-humped camel
2
1
13
2
0 / 0
26
3 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 1
20
450
Common
Camelid, Light
Hardy, Enduring, Pack Animal, Temper 1
- **Attacks:** Bite (Unarmed; Damage 3; Crit 5)
The two-humped camel of cold deserts and high passes. It is slower than its cousin and carries more, in heat or snow.
##### War Camel
Mehari, racing camel, camel-corps mount
2
2
12
2
0 / 0
20
3 / 3 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 1
30
1200
Military
Camelid, Medium
Battle-Trained, Desert-Bred, Horse Terror
- **Attacks:** Bite (Unarmed; Damage 4; Crit 4)
A camel bred and schooled for raiding. Horses that have not been stabled with camels dislike the smell: **Horse Terror** adds 1 Bane Die to the Riding checks of horse riders within Short range.
##### Ox
Bullock, steer, draught ox
2
1
12
2
0 / 0
22
3 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1 / 1
12
150
Common
Bovine, Light
Draft 2, Steady, Slow
- **Attacks:** Gore (Unarmed; Damage 4; Crit 4)
The plough and wagon animal of most of the world. It is not ridden except by children and the desperate. It pulls all day on poor grass.
##### Water Buffalo
Carabao, marsh ox
2
1
14
3
0 / 0
24
4 / 1 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
12
200
Common
Bovine, Light
Draft 2, Steady, Slow, Wader
- **Attacks:** Gore (Unarmed; Damage 5; Crit 3; Knockdown)
The ox of rice country and river deltas. It is ridden at a walk by the people who work it. **Wader**: it ignores the travel penalty for marsh and swims at Speed 1.
##### Yak
Grunting ox, high-pasture ox
2
1
14
3
0 / 0
22
4 / 1 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 1
15
250
Common
Bovine, Light
Sure-Footed, Hardy, Cold-Bred, Steady
- **Attacks:** Gore (Unarmed; Damage 5; Crit 4)
The pack and riding animal of the highest country people live in. It ignores the travel penalties for mountains and snow, and it suffers in heat.
##### Reindeer
Caribou, sled deer
1
2
9
1
0 / 1
10
2 / 3 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
30
200
Common
Cervine, Light
Small Mount, Cold-Bred, Swift, Draft 1
- **Attacks:** Antlers (Unarmed; Damage 3; Crit 4)
Ridden by small riders and driven in sled teams by everyone in the far north. A pair pulls a sled as fast as a horse trots, across snow a horse cannot cross.
##### Llama
Pack llama, high-country sheep-camel
1
1
8
1
0 / 0
8
2 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1
18
120
Common
None
Sure-Footed, Pack Animal, Temper 1
- **Attacks:** Spit (Unarmed; Damage 0; Crit —; Disorient 1)
A mountain pack animal that will not be ridden by an adult. Trains of thirty cross passes no wagon ever will. An overloaded llama lies down and stays down.
##### Sled Dog Team
Dog team, husky string
1
2
12
1
1 / 0
16
2 / 3 / 1 / 3 / 3 / 1
40
600
Common
None
Cold-Bred, Enduring, Team
- **Attacks:** Bite (Unarmed; Damage 4; Crit 4)
Eight dogs and a sled, bought and run as one animal. **Team**: the listed Wounds are the team's; at half Wounds its Speed is 1 and its Carry is halved. It travels on snow and ice only, and it eats meat.
##### Elephant
Work elephant, tusker, timber elephant
3
1
22
5
0 / 0
60
5 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 3 / 1
20
4000
Restricted
Pachyderm, Medium
Draft 4, Platform, Long Memory, Temper 1
- **Attacks:** Trunk Slam (Unarmed; Damage 6; Crit 4; Knockdown); Trample (Unarmed; Damage 7; Crit 3; against Prone targets)
An elephant carries a howdah with four people, or hauls what twenty men cannot. It is clever, remembers who treated it well, and is guided by a driver sitting on its neck. It counts as four animals in a team.
#####
War Elephant
Armoured elephant, castle-bearer
3
1
24
5
0 / 0
60
5 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 1
15
12000
Military
Pachyderm, Heavy
Battle-Trained, Platform, Horse Terror, Panic Stampede
- **Attacks:** Tusk Gore (Unarmed; Damage 8; Crit 3; Pierce 2); Trample (Unarmed; Damage 7; Crit 3; Blast 3 against clustered targets)
An elephant schooled to walk into a line of spears. Cavalry will not close with it. **Panic Stampede**: when it is below half Wounds, or burned, its driver makes a Hard Riding check each round or it turns and runs through whatever is behind it, usually its own side.