Killing Elephants

Dude, that sounds like a nice challenge to me! However, you should use skirmishers. Lots of them! Also, use ranged cavalry (either auxilia cavalry or any javilin or archer cavalry mercenary you can find) and use them to try to lure the elephants away from your main line. The trick is to get them so fatigued they will either rout or run amok (make sure the are far away from your main troop force by then!). This will work nicely (if you can indeed attract the ele's attention) as they will be too slow to actually keep up with light cavalry. However, if your enemy has cavalry of its own, try dealing with them first, so they will ot either kill your cavalry or keep them busy.

Skirmishers? How......cheap, heheheheh. I guess my logic before the battle was that the urban cohort pilas do way more damage than your average joe auxilia, but as you can see that plan didn't pan out too well.

So how does that work? Why will skirmisher javelins kill an elephant but not pila from heavy infantry?

It's not really the killing power... It's more of 'make the elephant chase fast and cheap skimishers in loose formation all over the map until they tire and autorout.'

But I'm pretty sure the killing power plays a part... I mean, if velites can kill chariots, they should for eles too...

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Originally Posted by Viking

Also onagers are good at killing elephants.

I`ve done this to my own elephants several times.. :oops:

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Ouch, I know what you mean. :embarassed:

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Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

It's not really the killing power... It's more of 'make the elephant chase fast and cheap skimishers in loose formation all over the map until they tire and autorout.'

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We`re talking about the bonus here that make elephants die scarily easy.

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Originally Posted by Marquis of Roland

How the hell am I supposed to face another S.E. army down the road that has 3 armored elephants???

Maybe I bit off more than I can chew when I was giving them about 200,000 denarii every year?

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Jeez, you know something. ~D Try to think out an other end for your money.

I remember a custom battle, I made two untis of archers for me, and 7 units of elephants for Hannibal. I shot a few volley of fire arrows on one and in the next five minutes watched them kill eachother.