Stomping

[HoneyBadger]

Excellent. I can definitely use that in a mod. Thanks Shovah

[Ironhawk]

The easiest to deploy counter to elephants is: Fire Largest.

Shoot them enough times and thier morale will break, turning them into a liability for thier owner, not you. Xbows work terrificially for this if you can get them. Generally speaking tho, they are great vs AI, but I will never use breakable-morale tramplers against another human player. There is just too much danger of them backfiring.

[HoneyBadger]

Yep, that's why I recommend Basalt Kings, you can sacred them up so they go berserk when the enemy shoots them, they work just as well underwater, and they're useful for more than just making infantry-juice.

[Gandalf Parker]

I always did ok against elephants using swarms of slingers. Plus it makes the elephants charge back thru their allies.

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah, elephants can't hold shields. In real life you could probably train them to hold shields with their trunks, and then they couldn't see where they were going and wouldn't have any more morale problems

[krpeters]

Lots of good ideas, thanks, it looks like there's a way to counter anything in Dominions, which is what makes it a great game

The best suggestion I saw was the cheap ethereal trick, dispossessed spirits. I think regular ethereal/high defense troops would be too expensive... LA Arcosephale elephants get three attacks per turn (trunk & 2 spear), so even without the trample I think they'd be strong against them.

How good are slingers against high-protection but shieldless troops? LA Elephants have strong armor too.

That's probably the best strategy -- lots of high-def troops up front to absorb the charge, lots of slingers/archers in the back to actually do damage.

[Gandalf Parker]

They dont do alot of damage. But elephants seem to be routed esily by a rain of missiles. Thats actually better than killing them since they rout back thru their own troops and trample them. If you are lucky, maybe even one of the commanders.