cant kill 1 elephant with 2000 men

[thanos999]

1 elephant on its own is overpowerd it killed 2000 men in a battle including 2 giant ballistas
my force comprised off 2 vetran legionairs 8 hastati 2 giant ballist 8 vestati and a few other units i was up against 2 elephants to start with the ballistas killed one off them then the other elephant just destroyed my armyi was enroying the game untile that moment

[Fun-O-Matic]

Congratulations on telling us how bad you play this game.

[MANWHATADONGA]

normal for me kill general on elephant or kill one the rest just rear fall on back and die

[thanos999]

ive been playing this game sinc day one and this is the first time an elephant has destroyed my army

[Pumis]

If you really lost to elephants with that army... maybe you should just unistall?

[NotActuallyACat]

Really? I've been fighting Carthage for the past few days as Iceni (They had half the damn map) and half the time I don't even lose a man to them. The most units I've lost to elephants was 250. They're not overpowered, just difficult to deal with as they should be.

Your first flaw: You have a force made up only of swordsmen. Swordsmen are weak vs cav and elephants. You should try recruiting some spearmen. Even cheap spearmen gain a massive damage and attack boost versus elephants and horses (Levy freemen get a default 25 extra damage, with anticavalry tactics they will do 125 damage) The ideal situation involves a cheap unit as well: Elephants are most lethal on the charge, so you want to dampen the charge with a cheap unit, then charge in with spears. You can recruit default auxiliaries, triarii, or auxilliary hoplites for this.

a second method is flaming arrows or javelins. These will rapidly panick elephants and cause them to run amok. The AI will kill the elephants the moment they do so. Velites are good for this. Leves are not: They have no flaming javelins.

[Fun-O-Matic]

Originally posted by thanos999:

ive been playing this game sinc day one and this is the first time an elephant has destroyed my army

Absent of the price increasing and limiting to battlefield capability, Elephants were already nerfed to the point they are unrealistic. You beating the elephants before does not equate you beating them again.

It is a high possibility that you fought a much skilled player, who used patch 9 elephants, than those players you previously fought who used more powerful patch7/8 elephants.

[danconnors]

I've fought elephants in the last 24 hours, and ballistae firing explosive shot work wonders on them. Best of all, if you hit them hard at a distance they will run amok, killing their own soldiers. I've killed them this way on very hard difficulty.

Any few elephants that survive the bombardment are easily finished off by decent cavalry or javelin chuckers. The trick is to swarm them, hit them from all directions, and crowd them, so they can't get up to a decent stomping speed.

[Pablo]

Elephants now are ok, you can kill them even with swords. Obviusly only a single sword unit can't kill elephants, but your army is big!! You are doing something wrong. I killed yesterday one unit of elephants with 3 princeps units. As somebody said above, you need one single unit for hold the charge (i recommend you in deep formation, in line is hard stop elephants, chariots and heavy cavalry) and then countercharge.

[James]

Stick em with the pointy end ;-)