Talk:Mameluke (Age of Empires II)/@comment-79.103.158.57-20170226170303/@comment-72.130.209.167-20170327005930

You guys are wrong on this. First, Camel Archers ALREADY are better than Mamelukes unless you're hitting the population cap (which goes for most units vs the mam. Mams are pretty population efficient units). 25 E. Camel Archers will beat 20 E. Mams with Zealotry. That being said, I would be happier if Mams were considered Cavalry Archers if it meant they benefitted from their Cavalry Archer building attack bonus.

Mams are NOT one of the best UU in the game. The only people who think that are new players who don't know how to handle them or DM players. 1v1's they are only okay because they have a high gold drain, you usually see them lightly mixed with camels. In team games they are much better because of trade but they still have a lot of issues with a lot of counters like camels.

Lastly, I never said anything about it being a bug. I just said it was stupid and should be fixed. It doesn't balance the Mam at all. The Mam isn't an overpowered unit like you say it is. It's very powerful against certain units, and is perhaps one of the best units when hitting the population cap, but at least at a high level they do get countered very easilly outside of that situation.