Building elephants

[Hold Steady]

Hi, I read something here about a guy playing as Roman AND having armoured Elephants. I thought the Romans couldn't build them. How can one build elephant while not being Carthegians or something? What are the necessities?

[Kraxis]

He must have modded the game.

[Al Khalifah]

What are the necessities?

Being a faction that can recruit elephants (the Carthaginians, the Selucids etc)
The recruiting province containing the elephants resource - visible on the strategy map as, you guessed it, an elephant standing in the middle of the desert.

The Romans cannot build Elephants by default without modification. There is no Roman skin for any elephant units in the vanilla game.

[Hold Steady]

thx Kalifah!

[katank]

You can get merc war elephants as the Romans either by hiring them in North Africa or Middle East or be rewarded them by the Senate.

No armoured eles though.

[Al Khalifah]

You can get merc war elephants as the Romans either by hiring them in North Africa or Middle East or be rewarded them by the Senate.

No armoured eles though.

I did not know that. I stand (partially) corrected. Are they rare? I must admit that I don't use mercanaries very often in my armies, but in my campaigns as Selucids and Brutii I never recruited or encountered any mercanery war elephants. They could've made matters much simpler.