How realistic are elephants going rampage all the time?

[ziegenpeter]

BTW: I don't know of any record about horses going crazy on their riders in the heat of battle.

[A Very Super Market]

Horses are herd animals, as well as being less intelligent than humans and elephants. They are considerably easier to lead, but can still disobey orders from the rider.

Specifically, the only reason that polearms repel cavalry is that horses are unwilling to impale themselves on pointy things. A rider that attempts to force their mount into a mass of phalangites will not succeed, and likely end up lying on the ground when the horse has a panic attack right before impact.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Horses are herd animals, as well as being less intelligent than humans and elephants. They are considerably easier to lead, but can still disobey orders from the rider.

Specifically, the only reason that polearms repel cavalry is that horses are unwilling to impale themselves on pointy things. A rider that attempts to force their mount into a mass of phalangites will not succeed, and likely end up lying on the ground when the horse has a panic attack right before impact.

Yea the battle engine does not have that, you can simply charge into a group of phalanx with medium cav and some will die, some will stubbornly keep running against the points and some just get through, not very realistic, but nothing the team can do about.

~Fluvius

[ziegenpeter]

Yea the battle engine does not have that, you can simply charge into a group of phalanx with medium cav and some will die, some will stubbornly keep running against the points and some just get through, not very realistic, but nothing the team can do about.

~Fluvius

Funny you guys mention, that 'cause I was thinking about that yesterday. Its a pity that they dont stop, maybe if they did that and a few dont stop early enough and get killed, the rest turns away... that would be cool

[A Very Super Market]

Yeah, it would be.

[mountaingoat]

would be nice to add some kind of modifier when charging certain units from the front ... maybe +100 defense so the cav charge will be wiped out and routed.

[Cute Wolf]

No... I think we should try to give "frighten_mounted" ability to spearmen

[ziegenpeter]

would be nice to add some kind of modifier when charging certain units from the front ... maybe +100 defense so the cav charge will be wiped out and routed.

Thats not what we were talking about, I guess. Horses WOULD'NT charge into a polearms formation, they'd try to turn away before. That should be included. Of course because of the sheer mass, some of these miserable ponies would get pushed into the pikes nevertheless

[Vesinger]

The moral for elephants are too low in EB. Probably the lowest ever (Moral 4 for Pyrrhos' elephants)

[anubis88]

The moral for elephants are too low in EB. Probably the lowest ever (Moral 4 for Pyrrhos' elephants)

No they're not....

btw... What the hell does this have to do with the thread?