Ha ha ha! Yes, like the analogy there! I'm having mixed success with elephants versus the Egyptians in my game right now (Carthage H/H) - it seems the AI's best counter is massed fire-arrows, this seems to get my 'phants all shook up pretty sharpish (I'm playing without the patch, so their hit points are way up there). I'm thinking also that my general has a lot to do with the outcome too, seeing as the 'phants get spooked a lot sooner when it's just a captain leading the army. Plus running about in the desert with all that armour on fighting against 300 odd archers plus chariots, phalanx etc who get the desert combat bonus... Anyway, so far I've been lucky/unlucky enough to never actually face an army that has elephants in it - so maybe when I have, I'll be back here starting a 'How do I stop these robo-elephants, I had 2000 archers firing at one unit and all it did was make them angrier' thread...