Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
I'm not familiar with the no doubt somewhat complicated reasoning behind the 2 HP eles, but granted I find it peculiar animals so large and generally resilient have been made so brittle. AFAIK one of their main selling points IRL (psych warfare aside) was the sheer difficulty of stopping one of the blasted things when it came at you.
yes thats exactly the idea. elephants really should be about the shock and awe, and mobile bastions of defense as opposed to some kind of melee machine

It really doesnt make sense to see 8 armored elephants fall to 1 volley of javelin fire, whereas that same volley cannot kill a single light-medium phalanx soldier.