But that's just the point, if the general is as hard to kill as an armoured elephant, then they have much better survivability, and most of us like to face general led enemies over captains. How hard is it to kill an armoured elephant after all?

Hasn't someone come up with a simple edit fix for the scarring trait anyway? Yeah, I know CA should have done it properly, but if it's a big problem, we will have to look to each other for a solution.