i went up against a guy who had spanish with almughavars, javelin men and spanish jinettes with a two elephant army supported by some cav to encourage them and they totally owned in the battle.

fear is the factor. if you have a general and elephant units blazing away with muskets there just arent very many units who will stand up to them without routing.not too mention even if the javeling are beating the armor stats they still have to deliver so many hit points and with cav supporting the elephants you are asking for routing of your javelin cav while they are trying to skirmish with the elephants.

an elephant army in skilled hands for 10k can totally own most other armies.