I HATE ELEPHANTS!!!!!!1111!!!11!

[Alexandros Maximus]

I just sent an almost-full stack army from the recently-conquered city of Messana to stop Captain Adonibal from siegeing it.

He had ELEPHANTS!!!!!

I threw volley after volley of spears (from my leves and mercenary peltastai) at them, and they just stood there.

I kicked his infantry's ass, routing 3/4 of them, and he ran @ my troops w/the elephants. I broke them off to get away, and it worked. Then i told them to throw pila @ the elephants, hoping it would cause them to run amok, but it didnt work.

Then they charged my principes and hastati and smushed most of them and they routed. like 3 or 4 units of infantry.

luckily i had some triarii, which i charged into the elephants' flank, and for some wierd reason the elephants didnt smush any of them.

Then i used some of the troops that stopped fleeing to throw their remaining pila at them, and they started running from the spears. Finally the next volley ater that one caused a rout, and they STILL didnt run amok.

I won the battle, and killed the capt. with the pila, but i started the battle with around 2300 troops and i suffered about 1200 casualties.

Adonibal only had 830 men!!!

How do you defeat elephants while sustaining less casualties???