Yubsteb Elephaunts?

**Globe** · 07-28-2007, 11:33

Hey, I was very suprised how my Seleucids VH/VH campaign turned out.
I command whole Persian terretory in the Roman landscape and I was heading with Elepants and Phalanx towards Rome, I captured Tarentum and sended half army toward the city under it. When I layed siege I saw that the Gladiator Uprise there took care of some startling discoveries, cause when I entered the city I saw huuuuuuuge Elephants, called Yubsteb Elephants, they had some cretan archers on their back and when I killed one, they blocked the paths ^^ So does any1 know what kind of units these are?

**Ludens** · 07-28-2007, 11:40

They are a joke of CA. If you enter "oliphaunt" into the command console, you will get a unit of these critters. They are not meant to be in the normal game, but there is a bug that makes random units appear when a city rebels and is designated the rebel capital.

**Globe** · 07-28-2007, 14:13

Never typed in Oliphaunt

**Ludens** · 07-28-2007, 14:48

Originally Posted by Globe

Never typed in Oliphaunt

Like I said, weird units appear when a city rebels and is designated the rebel capital. That is what caused their appearance in your game.

**Globe** · 07-28-2007, 15:32

Ok ^^

**Fate** · 07-28-2007, 17:22

Wow! Thats really random!
Ive been playing RTW and its successors for 2 years now, and i never knew about that!

**Kracker** · 08-11-2007, 16:48

I've never actually encountered this unit randomly in the game, but I have used the cheat to get a unit.

Unfortunately it worked once and now whenever I try it, the game crashes.

**Severous** · 08-11-2007, 19:02

@Fate...Yep. Spelling isnt my strong point. I didnt notice the spelling mistake.

Here are the beasts. Unit card and description only at this point.

In a few days time my faction leader, at the head of a powerful army, will complete his long foot journey from Italy to Turkey and slay these beasts. I intend to take a few pictures during that battle and will post them here if thats OK.

PS..theres another word in the description that make sense when spelled backwards....

**Severous** · 08-12-2007, 18:56

Here are those pictures I promised:

Start of the battle. The 'small' elephants in the foreground are my Mercenary War Elephants. The Yubtseb's look bigger even at this distance.

Up close and they stood too near the camera to fit in.

Lets hope those Onager fire pots find their mark.

One does a glancing hit and down goes a big guy and its many passengers.

Under a storm of fire arrows and artillery fire the remaining three Yubtsebs run amok.

Oops. Yubtsebs run really fast. Strangely they didnt kill any of their own troops when they ran through them...but they did kill mine.

Elsewhere in the battle the enemy gladiators have rushed forward. I retreat the artillery crews and bring up my own Elephants.

Mercenary War Elephants and the General (faction leader) double team on the enemy.

One Yubtseb run off the battlefield, the other three were killed by artillery, arrows and javlin armed cavalry.

**Severous** · 08-12-2007, 19:03

In the campaign those Yubtseb elephants occurred in a gladiator uprising, as a Scipii owned city rebelled. Despite well over 50 regions rebelling that was the only Yubtseb unit I saw.

**hungry** · 08-13-2007, 20:45

Hehehe. There's a rebel peltast/skirmisher flying in your last pic. I found it entertaining to pause my battles to examine the men sent flying by my armoured war elephants. The camera allows one to see the floaters from almost everyone angle. CA should have programmed a man going hyperbolic after being tossed by one of those yubtsebs.

**Caius** · 08-21-2007, 19:49

PLease feel free to burn me for going off topic so I appologise in advance.

Glad to see CA still taking an active interest in the game, just one point i would like to make to them. The Diplomacy is a beautiful idea but flawed please fix this.

End off topic.

sorry dude.

Who, me?