Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
... disband the elephants ... the money could be better spent elsewhere.
Heresy! Long live the Elephants!

My elephants were going strong 40 years into the game. The went everywhere with Pyrrhus, until he died of old age and then they were inherited by his son Ptolemaois. They fought innumerable battles as the ultimate weapon, mowing down lines of triarii off my spearpoints like a giant spatula scraping paint off the side of a house.

I think they were up to 3 silver chevrons, so they didn't seem to accumulate much experience for all those fights. Maybe I held them in reserve more than i recall, but they were there with the faction leader on the active front every time.

They are almost worth it for the fear factor alone: their massive charges into enemy elite cavalry is odds-reversing, campaign winning stuff and the bonus ram duties are just icing on a big grey wrinkly cake.