[krpeters]

On elephants vs. ethereals... well, I just found out the hard way that you guys were right. I just tried to take a castle from Midgaard, and I ran into an army of dispossessed spirits. My elephants won, but took significant casualties (a pack of 30 elephants normally wipes out 100 light infantry with no casualties at all)

Then Midgaard struck back with spring hawks, and my elephants got ripped apart brutally.

So... the moral seems to be, tramplers are great in the early game before ethereal troops show up. After that, it looks like it's better to switch over to knights (if you have them -- LA Arcosephale has "companions")