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Fantasy Duel#10Mamluk vs French knight
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    Posted: 19-Mar-2005 at 06:45
a assumed both warriors on their golden ages.
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the Mamluk, unlike the knight he has this special thing called tactical flexibility.
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true.And the mamluk's sword can slice through armour and iron bars

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and dont forget his recurve bow, or his primitive firearms, and they knew how to use formations better anyway.
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But on one on one?
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still, all the French guy really knows how to do is charge forward, the Mamluk could fire at him using superior mobility to avoid a melee, and if his bow doesnt work against the armor he can always use a gun.
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The mamluks didnt use guns,thats why they were defeated at Marj-Dabk by the Ottomans.
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Originally posted by aknc

true.And the mamluk's sword can slice through armour and iron bars swords...

What on Earth are you talking about?

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Strenthened by a repetititve exexercise a mamluk could slice through lead bars with a sword weighing more than four pounds.Lead not iron,sorry i was not correct.
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Originally posted by Gazi

The mamluks didnt use guns,thats why they were defeated at Marj-Dabk by the Ottomans.

 

maybe a mamluk proper didnt, but they knew more about them as they had significant firearms auxilaries.
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