Elephant mounted cannons

[ZombieFriedNuts]

I read it in PC gamer are they taking the mick or are they really going to mount cannons on elephants I admit it would be funny but after they get the first round off wont they have a loose elephant on their hands.
Personally I love the idea and would love to see what happened to the first person who tried it in real life, if someone was that stupid. O and didn’t cannons explode regularly back then elephant stew anyone.

[TosaInu]

Hello ZombieFriedNuts,

I recall reading something about certain units being able to move cannons, including elephants. That's something different from them being mounted.

I don't know about history here. I guess elephants could be mounted by the very heavy arquebusses, type of like those used on ramparts. I wonder what the grey giants would do when they get fired

P.S. wasn't PC gamer I read.

[PROMETHEUS]

I am happy to know that there will be elephants , means we can mod in them for Cartaginians ^^ ....

[Watchman]

I know they sometimes mounted ballistas on the backs of elephants in SE Asia. But any gunpowder weapon above small swivel-guns would probably be a bit too much, in terms of both weight and recoil, for both the animal and the howdah. Gotta be a pain and a half to train the big animals to get used to the noise, anyway.

[Zenicetus]

Arquebusses are not enough. I want Chinese rockets (JATO) strapped to the sides of my elephants, so they can fly over city walls.

Elephants can be trained to ignore loud noises in a circus, but this does sound a bit over the top. Even ignoring the noise, that's a lot of weight to put on one of these beasts, if you include the ammo. Reloading on a moving elephant would be fun too. Is there any historical basis for this idea?

[lars573]

CA aren't the people you should be asking that. You should ask big huge games. They put an elephant with a culverin on it's back in RON:Thrones and patriots.

[matteus the inbred]

i'd like sharks with frickin' laser beams strapped to their heads...come on people, throw me a bone here.

bit silly really. i presume this means a Moghul campaign or similar? Elephants were used to bring up siege guns during the Mahratta Wars, but that's well outside the medieval time period...

[Bobby G]

I didn't believe it when I saw it!!!!!!!

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That is definitely an elephant with some sort of mounted gun.
I'll have to wait and see how they behave in the game. Then I'll decide whether they should be in the game or not.

[Callatian]

I didn't believe it when I saw it!!!!!!!

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That is definitely an elephant with some sort of mounted gun.
I'll have to wait and see how they behave in the game. Then I'll decide whether they should be in the game or not.

Loll .. I've played with them - as well as with the missile launcher elephants:

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

It looks exactly like the historical artwork.

Oops, I guess they got it right.

[SirGrotius]

Elephant artillery, eh...

This reminds me of players in FPSs who always use rockets and power ups and have ADHD.