Quote Originally Posted by Lemurmania
I agree with the previous posters that skirmishers and cav are a better solution. But warming the elephants up with some nice flaming arrows is even better.
Well, some people like to attack Carthage (primary users of crazy War Elephants) fairly early in the game and multiple units of archers aren't available for the them attacker. As the Scipii I made a full-stack Equite army with two family members and ran around North Africa, taking provinces from Carthage. You can't assault settlements, but camping outside for a while usually works. Besides, after the 2nd turn of siege the AI will usually sally forth to attack you 90% of the time. With many units of cavalry, you can play RTW like a simple RTS game and tell them all to attack one enemy unit at a time.

The enemy always routes like crazy. I have never lost, or even came close to losing, a single battle.