Trample balance discussion

[Xietor]

I think we had these discussions before. And elephants are not overpowered. the issue was allowing them to be mixed with infantry boosting their morale.

But elephants cost 100 gold, and 3 10 gold spearmen should really not be a counter to them in general. And I do not think reducing their size or trampling is an answer either.

I have been on the receiving end of an elephant blitz at the hands of a very good player using MA Arcos and backing up the horde of elephants with squads of soul slaying astrologists.

I was playing MA Pangaea(3 order no free spawn), and managed to deal with them just fine. No it is not a fun experience, but neither is ghost riders, earth attacks, disease demons, seeking arrows, mind hunts, etc. And I suffered heavy losses. But when arcos invests many thousand gold in his elephants, you should suffer heavy losses to stop his army.