Talk:Mameluke (Age of Empires II)/@comment-72.23.155.39-20150317005807

I don't see the big deal with the high cost as it doesn't make sense to mass them up anyways. Having much more than the amount of mamelukes it takes to one-shot the most durable unit you'll see (besides the ones that Mamelukes should just run away from) has little to no return. You should never use a mameluke with out microing as they have low HP and a slow rate of attack. Regular camel units are much better when doing this (like if you can't micro because you need to defend seige units or villagers). For example, it take about 12 fully upgraded mameluke to one shot a catephract. Beyond that many in your army will have little to no use (maybe a few more in case some don't fire). It takes around 30 to one-shot a FU Elite War Elephant and 15 to one shot a seige ram. So you should really only ever have around 20-30 mamelukes in your army at one time. They aren't really meant to be used to storm a base anyways as they are camel units.