Quote Originally Posted by lomeinchef
So Elephants could be only available to recruit from provinces in the Indus Valley, far southern nile region and atlas mountains. And Harkonarson, your idea about mercenery indian elephant units in the middle east is excellent idea! It seems a perfect way to symbolize nations importing elephants for their armies using the engine. I hope EB uses that one!
I think the idea of mercenary elephants is not quite historically accurate.It would imply that middle eastern countries brought UNITS of elephants from India(I mean with indian crew and weapons), whereas, to my knowledge they only imported the animals.
I don't know if this could be done(I sincerely doubt it isn't hard-coded) but this would be imho the best solution for the elephants problem: add an 'elephant' resource.This would represent the total of elephants your faction posesses and creating an elephant unit would require both gold and elephants.You would only be able to replenish the number of elephants you posess by gaining control of a province either african(where elephants live) or at the indian border(so you can import animals from India).