Talk:Mameluke (Age of Empires II)/@comment-34236415-20191223102838/@comment-34236415-20200103140439

Think about it. Scimitars are not designed for throwing. They are unbalanced and shaped for slicing/cutting, not piercing. If you ever try throwing one IRL you will see that there's no guarantee it will strike it's target blade-first rather than hilt-first. Also the range at which they throw Scimitars effectively is absurdly long. And, on top of all that, how many scimitars would the mameluke have to carry on himself/his camel in order to fight effectively in long battles? Those things are heavy, they are not stones/arrows/bolts that one can amass with limited effect on carry weigh.

So, my conclusion is that the mameluke has got to have psychic/magic powers in order to throw and guide those scimitars effectively through the air.