"Elephant Rush Tactical Guide"
Getting to construction and war elephants before the enemy has built up an impeneratrable defense and without having to use catapults to storm cities has baffled the minds of such leaders as Hannible and Porus. Keep in mind the term "rush" implies a swift decisive victory, ergo 2 movement is required for a 1 movement unit that comes later than a standard rush in the game. A quandry, but to quote the great chess master Capablanca , "A good player is always lucky." The theory is threefold. The army should consist of
1. spies to lower city defense to zero
2. Strong navy with good trireme or caravel support
3. Amphibeous Marine War Elephants.
The attack route should follow the coast- a land invasion in conjunction with the navy in order to get promotions to make sure your elephants make it to amphibeous and you can swap them back and forth between the fleet. Any surviving land units park outside the non target first coastal city and pillage
while that city is building reinforcements. The fleet then hits the second coastal city and razes. disembarked troops hang a second then reload and head towards the easiest Spy located target, Marine elephants attack and raze.
something Hannible should have done if he were a better general.
QED
