I make the story to fit the situation I manage create. Not the other way round
Pity about the robots? I do not consider a few robots as compensation for what I lost, it will take me two turns to make that up
Yay, to rub it in I'll tell you the elephants were an afterthought, they obviously turned up and decided to fight the good fight, or more likely, decided that shutting themselves in some sharpened logs on top of a mound of dirt wasn't their scene