Quote Originally Posted by Hoplite7
I loved elephants in RTW, and always hire them as mercs in M2TW. Obviously in this time period the use of elephants has seriously diminished, but is there word of playable elephants for the factions in the "third world"? (for lack of a better term) Such as in India or Afghanistan? Or did everyone stop using them by now? I don't think elephants would be very useful against muskets...

Just to make this clear, India and Afghanistan were by no means third world countries at this time. The Mughals were one of the greatest warrior empires the world has ever seen, and they left behind them such spectacular architecture as the Taj Mahal and hte Red Fort ad Delhi. They would have used quite a lot of elephants, with riflemen on top of them, and there is evidence to suggest they were used to transport cannons.

Although the Mughals were somewhat in decline by the 18th century, they will use their elephants to put up a fierce resistance to any british or Dutch etc people with ideas on the subcontinent in ETW.

A mughal war elephant in full armour: