Elephant stats

[-Praetor-]

You've never run across an archer in the tower dieing?

Actually, I haven`t seen that either.

What I`ve seen, is the following:

An elephant section with the peculiarity of 2 archers on each of the elephant`s tower, in addition to driver, has suffered cassualties on a battle (say, 2 elephants killed in a unit of 12). That`s 6 men dead (2 archers+driver x2 = 6), in addition to the 2 elephants.

Let`s forget the fact that they might be cured, cuz in this case they weren`t.

That same elephant unit that had suffered cassualties in the previous battle, in the next one, the number of elephants killed is not represented in the total count of elephants of the section. The thing is, that the section gets 12 elephants, but 6 crewmen less. That is, on half of the section`s elephants, they get 1 archer less on each tower.

That`s what happens to me, not that the crewmen are killed by arrows and such. BTW, I`ve emptied 4 units of "creeeshhhen archers"`s arrows on a unit of elephants, with fire ammo enabled, in hope to rout them. Needless to say, the bloddy bastards didn`t rout, and I didn`t noticed a single crewman killed.

(That was in Darthmod, that`s true).

Cheers!!!!

[BigTex]

I've had single man losses to towered elephants in battle. They are rare and it takes quite a bit of looking to see them. I've only had it happen in vanilla, but that is also only when elephants have stayed alive long enough to have them occur. Playing on VH against some form of archer watch your unit closely, you'll get those 1 man losses eventually.

[Caratacos]

I had an Epirus campaign where i was besieging a town. I routed everything bar the one unit of spearmen that were waiting at the town center AND two little akontistai(sp?) that managed to make it back. As soon as they got their morale restored they threw their remaining javelins at my lumbering giants and killed 2 out of the last three. I couldn't believe my eyes-- needless to say i was very impressed-- i almost felt bad as i ran those two guys down with my General's cavalry .