Beasts of war?

**Ac3s** · February 05, 2015, 05:11 AM

So I started a new campaign on that normal Europe map (not the Imperator Augustus map) and I cannot figure out which factions get these new beasts.
What specifically interests me are elephants, so far I have conquered the south-west of Africa and I can hire some normal elephants there, but where do I get the armored elephants from and are there any other special units like that that perhaps can be trained from other areas?

**Matmannen** · February 05, 2015, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by Ac3s

So I started a new campaign on that normal Europe map (not the Imperator Augustus map) and I cannot figure out which factions get these new beasts.
What specifically interests me are elephants, so far I have conquered the south-west of Africa and I can hire some normal elephants there, but where do I get the armored elephants from and are there any other special units like that that perhaps can be trained from other areas?

In Vanilla they are called Syrian Armoured Elephants, so they would be found in Syria. I do not know though if DeI has all the BoW unts in it...

**KAM 2150** · February 05, 2015, 05:16 AM

Most of beasts of war units are disabled. For Syrian war elephants you need Syria. In north Africa only small forest elehants were used and they were too weak to both have a turrets and armour.

**Ac3s** · February 05, 2015, 05:46 AM

So I can hire armored elephants through the AOR units once I own Syria and have +50% roman culture?

**Philozoraptor** · February 05, 2015, 06:09 AM

You need only lvl 3 city for AOR armored elephants in Syria, you dont need your culture for them. Though I think this AOR elephants are bugged, they are only elephants with amok instead of berserk in DEI and they got 45 armor (unlike merc or indian armored elephants that got only 25).