Talk:Mameluke (Age of Empires II)/@comment-24.239.107.16-20160113073751/@comment-134.2.67.177-20160205114621

You don't take an important fact into account, Mamelukes are castle units. The EEW can be massed easier, because he comes from barracks. If you don't take resources into account, EEW can be massed way faster. It will be way harder for you to train 58 mams then for your enemy to train 100. He won't even have 100 EEW he will attack as soon as he has around 20-30 together with a big army of slingers. How many mams will you have at this point? 10?

Mamelukes are great when massed, because they have range and high combat stats. The problem is staying alive till you have such a big number. EEW can hunt down smaller groups of your mamelukes with high movementspeed and bonus attack against Cavalry.