Is the elephant too powerful?

[JCP]

I rarely build elephants... it's a matter of tech path !
But I often have several chariots (a good exploring unit in the early game ) for one reason : we can find chariots in huts, not elephants !

[War4ever]

Originally posted by JCP
) for one reason : we can find chariots in huts, not elephants !

this is incorrect....i have received many ellies from huts....

[Scouse Gits]

Elephants often fall out of huts. It's a sure sign that one of the AI civs has Polytheism even if you don't have this tech.

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SG(2)

[TCO]

SG, that suggests some testing and some GL work for our academics. Have they studied huts?

[JCP]

Elephants often fall out of huts

If SG and War4ever have seen that, it's OK.
Personnaly, I remember huts hiding several kinds of units (mainly archer, horseman and charriot as soon as some civ discovered Wheel, even crusader) but not elephant.
Perhaps it was games were elephant came late and crusader early ?

[Traianvs]

elephants can be useful, but in well defended cities they get killed immediately, i prefer building legions in my border towns and then charging blindly into battle, capturing some cities along the way

[Cyrion]

Originally posted by JCP

Personnaly, I remember huts hiding several kinds of units (mainly archer, horseman and charriot as soon as some civ discovered Wheel, even crusader) but not elephant.

I've found elephants in huts quite often as well!! (an elephant in a hut?? easy to find, if it's not hiding in the fridge... )

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by GP
I like the sound they make.

Definitely! Nothing more effective in waking me up 2 AM, than an AI elephant attacking something that is mine

Carolus

[Smash]

If SG and War4ever have seen that, it's OK

But if I say it,its a ball of crap?

I'm taking my ball and I'm going home.

[Scouse Gits]

SG[1] - don't forget your bat, Smash

[ramses II.]

You can find elephants tipping your first hut, before founding your capital. I've got them often - but then you can be sure there's another civ on your continent with a lot of start techs.

[Carolus Rex]

If you get elephants from a hut and you don't have Polytheism, you can be sure that another civ has it.

If barbs popping out of the wilderness (called rebellion/rebels in the linked paper below) contain elephants, someone has discovered Gunpowder.

See William Keenan's The Barbarian Paper for the details. I consulted Tables 2 and 5, hope I understood it right.

http://sleague.apolyton.net/Guides/sldt_barbtechs.shtml

Carolus

[War4ever]

Carolus Rex....did you take a leave of absence? haven't seen you for awhile