Elephants charged my skirmishers from the front even after getting loads of slings in them and javelins Even on huge scale with deep ranks they slammed right through and whipped out half the unit. Had to send my peltests over and continue the sling shooting to kill them off. They are far tougher than before and hit like a tone of bricks. Not sure if their cost has changed but I might consider using them now from what I witnessed

Also during a siege I noticed that 1 skirmisher unit had to use all of it's javelins to destroy a unit. Plus Eperos seems to have two units of these beasties along with 3xp phalanx and hyspatis(sp?). They are no push overs. Not to mention KH in the South scooping up mercs by the hand full. Still an easy game but far more challenge than anything I got from 1.0.