HeraldtheGreat
King
You realize that they gave war elephants + that ability because Hannibal croosed the Alps with elephants. The devs just represented that side of history by giving this ability, and not "out of realism".
Besides, I just feel this thread is a bit of making a storm in a glass of water ... I'm not indonesian, and I don't know much of its history, nor about the symbol of the kris blade. All I know is that these kind of ondulated blades cause deep wounds extremely hard to heal, because that shape. Giving mysterious power ... I personnally don't think so. Anyway, with such logic, shouldn't the american minuteman be weaker than the regular musketman ? After all, minutemen were a militia, not trained soldiers. And the Mandekalu cavalry ? They shouldn't be any different from the knight. And so on ...
My point was that war elephants were not specific to Carthage, they were not very practical, and crossing the Alps once doesn't mean it's a good idea to merge it with the UA. I'm sorry if I didn't make that clearer.