Elephants in Greece?

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Would there be any way to tweak the merchant agent in M2:TW to represent elephant expeditions by various factions and when they are sitting on an elephant "resource" you might be able to recruit elephants at different locations? It seems like it could be a stretch although through scripting maybe possible? The price of the agent could be very expensive to represent the vast resources needed to be able to not only maintain the beasts, but also the teams of trainers and such who would be needed to find and tame them.

More on topic, I am currently playing an Epiros campaign and I hung onto the elephants you start with. Sure it makes your early money situation difficult but I took a good part of my forces and shipped them to Italy, disbanded most of my fleet, conquered Arpi and Ariminium within 12 turns or so, and took Pella, Corinth and the Thessalian town rather quickly as well. With all this under your belt, you will be turning a decent profit and then I turned north and took the two Illyrian towns as well which also helped the situation of my economy. Remember, more than almost any other faction, Epiros is primed, and it is actually historically viable, to blitz Greece.