Is the amok feature bugged?

[EvilNed]

The fun thing is when your elephants go amok, the AI still targets them. Once, I had a unit of Armoured Elephants going amok. The battle was pretty much over anyway, just my cavalry mopping up the remaining troops. Anyway, so out there in the corner of the map are those elephants... Amoking... And the enemy realizes that "Shit, these elephants are an immidiate threat to us! Nevermind the cavalry that's pounding us from all sides!" and it sends its general (a unit of equites) to go and hunt those damn elephants down.

Well. Equites vs Armoured Elephants. You know the outcome.

[Someone Stupid]

I don't even bother with elephants to use as a direct killing unit. I use them to break up any lines which are a bit to thick or have units which I don't like. Otherwise they sit on the sidelines to knock holes in walls and stomp the occassional unit that tries to flank me. After having a mercenary elephant unit kill my 8 star faction heir I decided that it wasn't wise to use them as a sustained shock element. :) Not very fun paying upkeep on a unit to have it kill a general. Mind you I should have waited a bit longer to have charged my heavy cav in for the kill, but I was playing with an imposed 10 unit per army limit (to help the AI since it doesn't have that limit), so my cohorts were quite busy elsewhere at the time.

[Craterus]

elephants can be a probelm when they run through your own troops..
i also lost a general when his reinforcements arrived but i couldnt control them because the whole unit "hadn't entered the battlefield" and my generals chariot was killed by a unit of early legionary cohort!