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Would elephants even be that effective against Ashdod? Considering that the size difference is far less than it would be otherwise that might have an effect on trample, but then I could be wrong. Even if trample still worked just as well, the HP and protection on Ashdod's mainline troops (or at least the ones that Cerlin is using) is just too high for elephants to be effective against them in my opinion.

Personally I would have gone heavy magic research working towards level 4 thaumatugry to get paralyze and then churn out astrologers by the cartload. Also, Acro's high resource unit costs pretty much scream productivity scales. But hindsight is 20/20 so who knows.