Calling All Elephants

[Blue Monkey]

In R8XFT’s Anno Domini mod there looks to be an actual elephant unit upgrade line. I’ve also got a hankering for elephant units because of my own interest in India and related civs.

Trolling CFC these are all the elephant units, beyond the stock Firaxis one, that I can find. I’m aware that RFRE has a Hannibal’s Army Munit that includes an elephant, but I have not seen it posted here as a unit, and I believe its elephant is based on one of the units below.
If anyone knows of another elephant unit please post a link to it.


Dom Pedro II’s Elephant Rider
thread
download

Dom Pedro II’s Elephant Archer
thread
download

Dom Pedro II’s Elephant Archer (different ‘pedia preview from above, presumably distinct unit)
thread
download (in thread)

Dom Pedro II’s Carthaginian War Elephant
thread
download (in thread)

Dom Pedro II’s Elephant Cavalry (with guns)
thread
download

Aluminum’s AoK War Elephant
thread
download

utahjazz7’s Macedonian Elephant
thread
download

JimmyH’s AoE2 elephant archer
thread (none)
download (at GID’s site)

Kryten’s War Elephant Munit
thread (none)
download (at GID’s site)

Takhisis’ AoE Elephant Archer Munit
thread
download (in thread)

Sword of Geddon’s Elephant Worker (WIP)
thread
download (unit not finished)

 

[Supa]

I think you've got them all.
DMII planned to do a few more Elephant units but he quit before he could do tem : Aztec War Elephant and a Canonneer Elephant.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Aztec War Elephant? That's some althist worth the name!

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Thanks for putting this list together; I think I've already got them all on my hard drive already, but it shows that there's enough elephant units going round to make a UU out of one of them as well for either the Kushan or Mauryan civilization? Any thoughts as to which one?

 

[Virote_Considon]

I'd say Mauryan, and I think the Kushans should have a horse-mounted UU

 

[Ozymandias]

EDIT: null post, mod please erase ... I confused camels and elephants ... it was a knee-jerk reaction to seeing Dom Pedro II's monicker ...

-Oz

 

[Blue Monkey]

I'd say Mauryan, and I think the Kushans should have a horse-mounted UU

Second that. We discussed a Kushan UU in the rise of Asia thread - a lancer type unit. I'd have to look up the name in the thread. Appropriate Mauryan would be either an elephant UU or a heavy chariot.

Edit: A notable gap as to elephant units would be like the one tech icon image I posted. Elephants were trained to fight with a sword mounted on their trunk. So they used their metal reinforced tusks to thrust and toss, the sword to slash, and stomped with their feet, in addition to whatever the troops on their back were doing.