Quote Originally Posted by goolasso
Are elephants of any use in EB? I have deployed them against sweboz (easily killed by mounted skirmishers) and pontos (a general killed 3 units of them). In vanilla RTW and RTR they were really strong but in EB they seem really weak.
To answer the original question....

I am not that experienced in using them, but have some experience now playing at Epiros. I find that they rock, because they cause a substantial morale hit to the enemy troops for some distance. In addition, they can melee and cause substantial damage, but I try not to use them except when I know they are going to win. They are expensive and difficult to replace.

Even just sitting behind your battle line they are an asset.