OMG these elephants are crazy

**3kgtsl91** · December 09, 2007, 09:03 PM

Okay so I have SS 4.1 and I'm playing as Knights Templar. I gotta ask, what is going on with these fatimid elephants. They are ridiculously powerful, for example--I have 4 hvy cavalry units and 4 hvy infantry units fighting one unit of elephants. Well, the elephants stomp by guys over the course of about 20 minutes. How many elephants did we manage to kill? ZERO. Also, we had the high ground so you would think that would bestow an advantage upon us. Nope. So basically 12 elephants slaughtered almost 1,000 soldiers without any casualties. I think this is a little imbalanced, has anyone else noticed this? Also, how can I reduce thehitpoints on these things?

**Evan** · December 09, 2007, 09:12 PM

archers/javelinmen/artillery

**3kgtsl91** · December 09, 2007, 09:20 PM

thanks, i guess thats the simple fix, although realistically speaking they are still overpowered, the damn things have to bleed to death eventually if you prick em enough times.

**delra** · December 09, 2007, 09:29 PM

They are meant to be like that. You need to play on their weakness...

**burninglegionx** · December 09, 2007, 09:33 PM

10+ ballistas seems to work well.

**dstarsboy** · December 09, 2007, 10:04 PM

#1 elephant killer are jintes. If you ain't got them then just use any jav

**mailor** · December 10, 2007, 06:28 AM

Ballistas work wonders. Set the Ballista-projectiles on fire, and see the Elephants panic and wreak havoc on their own units.

**Vagabond** · December 10, 2007, 09:19 AM

hm, sorry to be a little noob, but how and where to recruit elephants as Egypt ?
I look all over the tech tree but found nothing T_T

**delra** · December 10, 2007, 11:11 AM

I remember they were available near Baghdad as mercenaries once...

**Vagabond** · December 10, 2007, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by delra

I remember they were available near Baghdad as mercenaries once...

oh, that means they're only mercs , no wonder why i found nothing

**Ataegina** · December 10, 2007, 12:32 PM

missile troops are the key !!

**Vasquez** · December 12, 2007, 09:27 AM

I think you are "group attacking", by that I mean you have a group of troops, you hit attack and voila what happens? Not a whole lot. I always individually assign a target for each unit in any group. They go in, they hit and they are far more effective. Javelin men indeed. Decent quality spear men should do the trick.