Talk:Mameluke (Age of Empires II)/@comment-59.148.110.59-20180131152403/@comment-27202541-20180201231250

It's not true.

The strength of the Mameluke is in post-imperial age. And boy do they shine there.

A unit that moves fast, has 10+4 melee attack at range, has 130 HP and has +12 bonus vs cavalry is certainly not rubbish. Sure in a 1v1 it may not be worth the gold cost but in team games, especially on BF, it certainly is.

That being said, Mamelukes counter-intuitively have no bonus against the camel line or camel archers, so they're pretty bad vs the current OP units like Imperial Camels and massed Elite Camel Archers. I could see them needing a bonus against those units in a future balance patch.