Mamelukes needs a buff

[MatCauthon3]

@GoofyWall386651

The problem is that skirms are very easy to mass and getting 19 skirms mixed with pikes mamelukes cant do anything against that.

i mean you could say that about anything. get mass pike and what can knights do?
get mass skirm and what can archers do?

@GoofyWall386651

. I think that for this reason its gold cost should be reduced and training time decreased.

this is absolutely fine and reasonable.

@GoofyWall386651

I think that a UU that expensive and countered by 2 trash unit, its should deserve a training time decrease.

again, its not really countered by either of them. you can kite pikes for days and it takes 19 skirm hits to kill them. meanwhile they do 13 damage back to skirms, killing them in 3 hits.

@GoofyWall386651

The throwing axeman, which in my opinion is a better unit overall, kills skirms, halbs, infantry and cost 25g.

and is less mobile, has less health, and a longer frame delay. it also does poorly vs cavalry and archers will wreck it far harder then they will wreck mamelukes.

@GoofyWall386651

Yes paladins can run away from mamelukes easily too

when something outspeeds you, you can’t easily run away from it.

@GoofyWall386651

Mamelukes are only 0.5 speed faster and they miss when target is 2+ tile away even if running straight in the same direction.

not always, and frankly this is something that even archers have to deal with.

@GoofyWall386651

And you also need 1 mameluke to take down 1 generic FU paladin.

yeah but its a lot easier to get to elite mameluke then it is to get to paladin. one costs 600 food and 500 gold and the other costs 1600 food and over 1k gold.

do i think mamelukes should be cheaper? absolutely.