I find them so difficult to use, is there a hidden army comp I dont know of that they are good to pair with I would suggest they make Mamelukes good Vs infantry as well, its terrible that as a gold intensive unit they do so bad Vs all cheap trash units.

They seem like they should be similar to arambai as they both ranged meelee I believe and arambai cheaper way faster to make and arambai does way better Vs inf, I find the frame delay way less on arambai making them easier to use.

But you can mix them witj either skirmishers or husssars, to deal wih enemies archers skirms.

Moreover most units tend to have more pierce armor than melee armor, so Mamelukes hit harder than one might think.

Due to the 12 frame delay and terrible range even a skirm can almost fire off 2 shots before a mameluke attacks.

Too hard countered by skirms due to their low range, all other short range melee are not listed as archers.

Obviously very expensive so not viable in 1v1s (unless you have a lot of gold control, and if you do youre usually already winning), or they may be viable in small size, but theyre a team game sledgehammer.

Someone also mentioned skirm mameluke and mameluke hussar, both of which are also very good.

Imperial camels are amazing but its not that big of a onesided win since zealotry heavy camel exists.

Indians beat them one on one, but the game isnt about one on one fights and sars have a lot of ways to snowball their advantages.

Micro and pick your fights and add a meatshield as OliveCereal4714 said.

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