[HoneyBadger]

As far as awe affecting trampling-have you ever avoided stepping on a flower? It's the same principle.

As far as having real tactics in the game-we'll never have that until we have field fortifications and other factors that depend on an army's location on the combat map. Putting your archers behind your melee troops isn't tactics, it's just obvious common sense.

As far as elephants go, pygmies would hunt them with spears. They'd just run up to the elephant and stick them with the spear. Seeing as how pygmies are the smallest people, as a whole, and elephants are the largest and most dangerous quadrupeds, it can be supposed that pygmies are some brave little bastards.

Elephants are already overly nerfed, anyway. They should definitely have a gore attack, bull elephants should be capable of going berserk, and there's no reason they shouldn't be outfitted with armor. So, when faced with an army of elephants, I count my blessings.