Hahaha, oh man the things that happen...

[Zing]

Somewhat similar thing happened to me when I was playing Baktria campaign. After a hard battle for one of the indian city I managed to kill majority of defenders and rout all the elephants. My general was following the routed elephant unit, killing them one by one, when the tragedy happened. A dying elephant fell and squashed my general and couple of his bodyguards.
I felt it was quite an appropriate ending for this general - to crash numerous rebels, conquer half of india, and make Baktria one of the most powerful states, only to be killed by falling elephant.
But since then I do not persue elephants with my general units.

[tapanojum]

Somewhat similar thing happened to me when I was playing Baktria campaign. After a hard battle for one of the indian city I managed to kill majority of defenders and rout all the elephants. My general was following the routed elephant unit, killing them one by one, when the tragedy happened. A dying elephant fell and squashed my general and couple of his bodyguards.
I felt it was quite an appropriate ending for this general - to crash numerous rebels, conquer half of india, and make Baktria one of the most powerful states, only to be killed by falling elephant.
But since then I do not persue elephants with my general units.

It could of been worse. Remember on the news the man who died when an Elephant backed up into him, and he suffocated with his head up an Elephant Arse?

[chenkai11]

It could of been worse. Remember on the news the man who died when an Elephant backed up into him, and he suffocated with his head up an Elephant Arse?

I had watch that video, the man didn't die, well almost. May be we are not talking about the same case.

[tapanojum]

I had watch that video, the man didn't die, well almost. May be we are not talking about the same case.

I guess it's not such an uncommon thing!

[||Lz3||]

Somewhat similar thing happened to me when I was playing Baktria campaign. After a hard battle for one of the indian city I managed to kill majority of defenders and rout all the elephants. My general was following the routed elephant unit, killing them one by one, when the tragedy happened. A dying elephant fell and squashed my general and couple of his bodyguards.
I felt it was quite an appropriate ending for this general - to crash numerous rebels, conquer half of india, and make Baktria one of the most powerful states, only to be killed by falling elephant.
But since then I do not persue elephants with my general units.

something like that happened in my very first campaign of vanilla RTW , I was a complete newbie, so of course... I had a full stack consisting of only Praetorian guards and 2 legionary cavalry units I felt so powerful with that army , so I sent my 10 star, 7 management 10 influence, "the mighty", 33 years old faction leader to lead that powerful army against the dreaded enemies of the republic... carthage..., but I was not expecting the elephants , there were 2 elephant units in the city , and I only had praetorians... so I suffered way too many losses

the only thing that actually was capable of killing the elephans were the cavalry units, but they had routed already , so I only had my great general , so I took the chance and sent him agaisnt the remaining elephants...

they eventually killed them all without too many losses, BUT... then , my FL killed the LAST elephant... and its corpse fell right over, killing him..., then I almost lost that battle when my praetorians started to rout at the surviving 2 elephants in the main square

[tapanojum]

Elephant shield wall that collapse on the front ranks of an army..now that would be killer!