War Elephants morale Problem ?

[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.

[Norfleet]

You should always plan for the elephants to rout: I tend to put them in the center, then deploy commanders and mages on the flanks. In a fight, most things that move tend to end up massing up in the center anyway: Elephants placed on the sides will thus curve into the center line, then rout and run over anyone you have in the center. If you put them in the center, they'll go straight forwards and bowl through enemies until they break, then exit through the center again, which has already been cleared for them.

Alternatively, you can cast Growing Fury on them. Then they'll go berserk and continue trampling and crushing more enemies!

[Ragnarok-X]

thanks everyone ! The berserk idea is really good

[Coffeedragon]

Use the undead variant (Behemoths). They never seem to suffer from morale at all!