Lament of a Sarmatian Player

[The Celtic Viking]

Yeah, what Arjos says about elephants at least used to be true: cavalry charges used to be extremely effective against any elephants. Since you took AP away from the lances though I don't know if it's still effective - it's definitely much less effective than it used to be (and against the armoured indians it should now be no more than a pipe dream). Would serve you right for making Leuce Epos and Taramonnos useless and therefore forcing Gallic players to rely on mercenaries if they want more than 2 units of cavalry, something which is much more important than being able to effectively counter elephants. :p

In any case, it seems your whole argument stems from you getting ahead of yourself. You might have had the problems you describe if your previous proposition of change to the Sauromatae had gone through, but it hasn't, so while the first two units you list are still mercenaries, you may still bring 10 mercs as a whole.