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Originally Posted by thejeff
I'm not sure how that would affect any of these suggestions, but since several seem to assume elephants would be on the flanks, I thought I'd mention it.
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That is why you first examine a battle which the elephant army fought. After this you place your anti-elephant army in a spot where the elephants are not, but in front of the rest of the army is. I would just choose one of your flanks, the one with commanders probably, so you lose a large leadership part of the army. This prevents further advance.
The elephants run towards the enemies, and hopefully rout in front of the rest of the enemy army. The important step is first scout the elephant army. I think, that this would work as long as you have a lazy opponent who doesn't change the tactics from battle to battle. (Just watch two attacks of the same army to check this). Adapt your tactics to counter your opponents tactics.
I would use scouts and PD to get this information. If you have a scouts in a province you can attack with him to discover the tactics of the army (set the scout to retreat, wait for more turns if you also want to know the spells cast by the mages). Or after a large army attacks a PD, look at the tactics of the army.
"He who is well prepared and lies in wait for an enemy who is not well prepared will be victorious. Know your enemy and know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will be victorious"