Yubtseb elephants

[Rhah]

I'm playing as the Julii and i start getting gladiator uprisings. one of my cities revolts, so naturally, i try and take it back, only to be confronted by these 100ft tall invincible killing machines!!?!

i've been playing RTW for a while, and i've never seen them before (apparently they are hidden unit)
what i'd like to know is, what is the most effective way to kill the b**tards?
after sending a full stack army in (cohorts, cav and archers etc.) i managed to wipe out all the rebel forces, except for the 4 elephants, which proceeded to annihilate my men. I sent another small force, with 8 archer auxilia, thinking i could sit outside the walls and arrow them to death, but that had little effect.
the only way i managed to kill them was to breach the wooden walls, and put ballista's in front of the breach to shoot the elephants as they walked past (this took a long time)

so does anyone have any advice? i figured onagers with firepots might do the trick, but it would be hard to hit them as they constantly move

[LordSaradain]

Yubtseb elephants?

What are those?

Please post a screenshot!

Edit: Oh, you mean oliphants...
Strange, I've never seen them appear in a campaign though...

[Flogger]

Yutseb elephants? 100ft tall?

Please post a screenshot.

Have you used all the conventional methods? Fire arrows, lots of spearmen, javeliners, etc.

[Darth Wong]

You can get those via cheating, but I've never heard of them showing up in a campaign game unless the game was modified to allow them. I played around with them before, just for fun, and discovered that the best way to take them out is to bring hoplites. Lots of hoplites in a line, and then let the elephants walk into the front of that line.

[Marly]

Ive heard of this before...also in a gladiator uprising.

Not sure why, must be a glitch

[Halie Satanus]

read it backwards

[God-Emperor of Mankind]

read it backwards

Hehe, and if you want more fun there is a gem in their description

These mysterious creatures from the middle principalities of farthest Terra Nova are the children of of G'nitek'ram, the God of Shiny Things That Man Does Not Need But Desires Anyway. Dark and foul are the ceremonies that summon them; great and scary are their tusks; terrible is their gaze; unwashed are their riders; cruel and unforgiving their masters! Flee in terror! Run for the hills!

Read G'nitek'ram backwards

[SteffanGlaze]

Yutseb Elephants are rare mercenaries that are a step above other elephants. The best way to beat them to fire artillery with fire shots on, even if it takes a lot of hits before they hit, when you kill a couple they will run amok and cause chaos in their own men but not yours on their walls!


Hope this helps

[GambleFish]

Yutseb Elephants are rare mercenaries that are a step above other elephants. The best way to beat them to fire artillery with fire shots on, even if it takes a lot of hits before they hit, when you kill a couple they will run amok and cause chaos in their own men but not yours on their walls!


Hope this helps

They spawned for me in 1.5 with no mods in that province next to Colonia Dacia. ALong with egyptian and amazon chariots, pontic heavy cal + 3 other different cavalry, rebel warlord, loads of different rebel infantry. And the elephants. The description cracks me up lol.

God of Shiny Things That Man Does Not Need But Desires Anyway

[Rhah]

i'm playing RTW 1.5, no mods, and definitly no cheating. I cant remember what year they appeared, but around 170bc i'd guess, in the gaul town in western france as part of a gladiator uprising

hoplites sound like a good plan, i'll just have to try and keep a few merc hoplites stationed in a decent place, for just such an eventuality

So by the sound of it, i've only come up against them because of a possible bug or something? thats reassurring, cos they are not fun to fight against

[Rhah]

lol, bestbuy elephants.

is that a NiN quote in your sig?

[Halie Satanus]

lol, bestbuy elephants.

is that a NiN quote in your sig?

no thats a satan quote

hail satan

[Lusted]

Lol, noticed the yubsteb but never that one.

[player1]

They are suppsed to be easter egg unit.
It's a bug, since they should not apprear in normal gameplay, just with cheat codes only.

[SpartanMage]

How do you Get mercs in custom battles i want ultimate elephants of doom

[Solar]

you're gonna get what you deserve...



anyway, what's the cheatcode I can use to have access to the elephants of doom?

[Lord Snibb]

I'm pretty sure there's a mod you can download that unlocks mercs for custom battles. You don't get as much bang for your buck, but it's worth it if your faction lacks one type of unit, like Carthage and archers.

[Darth Wong]

Just because you asked nicely, I'll tell you.

Step 1: Go to the C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\Data directory and open up the export_descr_unit.txt file in WordPad.

Step 2: Do a search on the word "oliphant". You should find a block of text that looks like this:

type             cheat oliphants
dictionary       cheat_oliphants      ; Yubtseb Elephants
category         cavalry
class            heavy
voice_type       Heavy_1
soldier          greek_elephant_crew_merc, 26, 2, 1
mount            elephant oliphant
mount_effect     horse +4, chariot +8, camel +4
attributes       sea_faring, can_run_amok, frighten_foot, frighten_mounted, mercenary_unit, no_custom
formation        20, 25, 30, 35, 1, square
stat_health      1, 30
stat_pri         6, 3, arrow, 120, 60, missile, archery, piercing, none, 25 ,1
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         6, 8, no, 0, 0, melee, other, blunt, none, 25 ,1
stat_sec_attr    area, launching, ap
stat_pri_armour  0, 4, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour  13, 3, flesh
stat_heat        -1
stat_ground      0, 1, -6, -1
stat_mental      8, normal, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 1890, 530, 190, 290, 1890
ownership        slave

Step 3: In order to make the giant elephants available in Custom battles, just edit the "ownership" line to add your faction (for example, change it to "slave, carthage, parthia, macedon, seleucid, roman" to make it available to all civilized factions which can build a circus maximus) and then edit the "attributes" line to remove the "no_custom" attribute.

Step 4 (optional): In order to make them available for recruitment during campaign games, you have to edit the export_descr_buildings.txt file. For example, if you find the "circus_maximus" entry, you can make cities with a circus_maximus able to recruit the giant elephants by adding the following line just before the "stage_races 2" line:

recruit "cheat oliphants"  0  requires factions { carthage, parthia, macedon, seleucid, roman, }

Just keep in mind that if you make them available in campaign mode, you will eventually face enemies who are using these things.

[Snoopy]

Actually, Yebtsebs are part of the package in Amazon revolts.

[guyyug]

Just to warn everyone, the cheat oliphant doesn't work in 1.3 or 1.5 for some reason, it casues a CTD, well does with me if I had wanted to muck around abit. So I've no idea how they turn up if you arn't playing 1.1 or 1.2.

Though as said hoplites are the best bet, also art as they're so big its hard to miss.