Quote Originally Posted by artaxerxes View Post
I actually think elephants are way too expensive, as their cost seems to prohibit any sort of real use of them in the games I play - by either me or the AI. But that may be due to my own inability when it comes to making money I just feel that since they used to be a mainstay of fx Seleucid armies (at some times at least), not being able to afford them 'till you've consolidated your empire and made it incredibly rich, is sorta weird, since kings like Antiochus I seemed capable to afford elephants given the economy of the seleucid empire at the start of the game - something that I'm definently not. And anyway I'm so bad at using them (possibly from having no experience since I never can afford to) that them being cheaper wouldn't actually overpower me.

But again, all this could be due to my inexperience and nothing to do with EB
Well, considering the amount of food they ate, the amount of care they needed during a campaign and the amount of training before the campaign, I would say they are actually quite cheap.