DEI Elephants?

[Akboris]

How do you use elephants?

Every time the AI use elephants they forward charge them ahead of their army, directly into my javelins, embarrassingly dying immediately.

Whenever I use them they also get torn to ribbons in literal seconds. If they fight anything for a second the moment I turn back they are already dead.

Im going to assume that they require lots of movement? Are they used like chariots?

[Metal Izanagi]

Elephants in DEI are for scaring enemy troops and attacking sword-armed infantry. Spears and any sort of missile unit will trash them fast. Elephants have a pretty massive morale debuff iirc, so even if you can't find a suitable enemy unit to run them at, just have them hang out near a fight and the enemy will be upset just from seeing the things.

[kam2150]

Elephants deal damage when they are moving, they don't need to charge. You can easily rack up 500-750 kills per elephant unit in battle. Also it heavily depends which elephants you are using.