Quote Originally Posted by Dieu Le Fera View Post
So I am currently playing as Epirus and have done quite well keeping my original elephant unit alive... that is until I sieged rome and dealt with two full stacks of Romani. It was my own fault that I wasn't paying enough attention to see the equitites companion cavalry come out of no where and nail my elephants with their javlins... so I lost all but two and ended up have to kill them myself because they started to blink red. After the battle which I won I got all my elephants back.. they all healed. Am I just lucky?
What are equites companions? Or do you mean Campanian cavalry?

I think its luck but also the sort of wounds can influence the chance of healing. For example, if you got shot down by missiles the chance is quite high that they heal. If it is a simple fight with no tricks (so get cut by a sword, stabbed by a spear) they usually stay dead.

Chance of healing:
Shot down > ran over by cavalry > cut down/stabbed to death.

It is also certain that you have a chirurgeon/doctor/herbalist.

~Fluvius