elephants can get sentry?

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Blake
The idea of elephants doing medic stuff made me rofl .

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
An elephant would make a great mount for a scout in terms of visibility, which is what sentry reflects. As to the medic upgrade, no one seems to think the horses do the medical stuff, if another mounted unit is a medic, why do we think the elephants would do it in their case. In history, the howdah sits up front; behind him is a platform with people on it, a half dozen or so. So a dozen elephants are supported by 80+ people, who could be medics, if that is what you want.

Partypooper.

[MasterDave]

Originally posted by Dis


You can actually get off the elephants.

How else would they take a **** or piss?

They can do both from "on high". One reason that it is better to be an elephant rider than a footsoldier when marching in a column.

[MasterDave]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
An elephant would make a great mount for a scout in terms of visibility, which is what sentry reflects. As to the medic upgrade, no one seems to think the horses do the medical stuff, if another mounted unit is a medic, why do we think the elephants would do it in their case. In history, the howdah sits up front; behind him is a platform with people on it, a half dozen or so. So a dozen elephants are supported by 80+ people, who could be medics, if that is what you want.

Bah stop using logic! This is Apolyton, after all, and excessive use of reason has no place here.

Just imagine a medic I elephant giving some poor axeman a prostate exam instead....

[Addled Platypus]

* voted best thread

amphibious medic ? why not

imagine gettting an asp bite

[Blaupanzer]

In the spirit of the thread:

"General, our medic elephants have no problem applying pressure to the wounds, so far fewer soldiers are bleeding to death. However, the number of broken bones is way up."

[Veritass]

I think the elephants should either not be able to go through forest tiles, or should destroy the forest as they do.

[Blaupanzer]

Originally posted by Veritass
I think the elephants should either not be able to go through forest tiles, or should destroy the forest as they do.

Elephants live in the forests. They should cause roads to be grown over and forests to appear, not destroy them.

[eris]

Originally posted by Veritass
I think the elephants should either not be able to go through forest tiles, or should destroy the forest as they do.

Nope. If you can lay a road in a jungle without destroying a jungle, and if a road is much wider than an Elephant, then you are not going to destroy the jungle by passing a file of Elephants through it. However, you might make the argument that the road should be easier to build since the Elephants have at least created usable paths for the roads to follow. I would not count on that argument getting you very far, though.

[padillah]

Originally posted by Son of David
Having sex with an elephant is mad!

Of all the goofyness in this thread this kind of jumpped out at me.

What the heck are you thinking!!

On second thought, I'm not sure I want clarification.

I'm just going to sit in the corner and rock myself to sleep.


Tom P.

[MasterDave]

quote:
Originally posted by Son of David
Having sex with an elephant is mad!

Originally posted by padillah


Of all the goofyness in this thread this kind of jumpped out at me.

What the heck are you thinking!!

On second thought, I'm not sure I want clarification.

I'm just going to sit in the corner and rock myself to sleep.


Tom P.

That was sort of a non-sequitor. I didn't even see it, really until you pointed it out.

It would be fun to have elephants be able to eat their way through jungles and forests, clearing them (without logging income in the case of forests) perhaps half as fast as a worker could. Would give them something to do during peacetime.

[padillah]

Maybe someone could mod in the ability to gift white elephants.

(to esoteric?)
Tom P.

[CerberusIV]

Since elephants have a long history of working in logging and transportation for humans it would be nice if the ivory resource gave a 10% increase to how fast your workers do things. Might be a bit unbalancing though.

[MasterDave]

Originally posted by padillah
Maybe someone could mod in the ability to gift white elephants.

(to esoteric?)
Tom P.

Pink elephants could also be made available to Civ's with a wine surplus.

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by padillah
Maybe someone could mod in the ability to gift white elephants.

way too funny


just have no one else to tell it to