Thanks for the replies. So what I glean from your replies is that using elephants as I could in vanilla RTW is not a good idea. New tactics - those you mentioned - have to be used. This is what i wanted to know before actually recruiting a unit. So far, my army compositions are doing quite well. My favoured tactic is to distract enemies with one or two diversionary units to split their army and then use missile units behind an impenetrable wall. or even a square, if necessary.

Do Qart Hadast get elephant archers and armoured elephanst as in vanilla RTW or do they only get the units with one man stearing?

/Sygrod