War Elephants morale Problem ?

[Ragnarok-X]

I cant exactly Remember the nation, but one has access to elephants which cost 120 gold and i think 20 ressources, those guys are pretty strong and can trample, and have a morale of 10.
In its the description it says they will flee if they are afraid. I guess thats ok, so i bought a lot of them, later on i had a army of about 20 Elephants and my pretener, Nasajaro (? the one with the 4 arms), he had 2 of the better ice swords and 2 shields. Now i attacked the army and guess what ? My leader was killing most troops when at about turn 3 or 4 ALL of elephants decided to run home, THOUGH only 2 were lost (10%), they had a morale of 10+1 (Dominion) AND the leader (my pretender) was STILL at full health and chopping down enemys.
Whats the deal with the elephants, a morale of 11 isnt bad, is about average, so why did they route ? This happended approx 4 times, almost each battle they were involved.

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[Raz 24]

The elephants fail morale checks very easy...
So mix them with high morale troops.
You answererd your own question by saying in the info they rout easy

[Ragnarok-X]

ok, but how am i supposed to know that they rout easily if morale is 10 and each other stat (given its a stat-check) is more than average, too ?!?

ty anyway

[Xavier]

Because morale 10 is lowwww.

[aldin]

There's three ways to keep skittish troops a bit calm:

1) Put them near units/commanders that boost morale (typically banners of some sort)
2) Group them with units that have high morale (so the GROUP is less likely to rout)
3) Cast Sermon of Courage / Fanaticism; A LOT

~Aldin

[OG_Gleep]

Use of any trampling unit takes some planning. Especially those nasty beasts. You have to assume at some point they will route and make sure that you give your army and commanders a good shot to avoid the damn things. I put all my commanders and expensive troops on the opposite flank. Mages especially are very vulnerable to a routing horde of tramplers.