How to deal with elephants

Autochthon · #1 September 30th, 2007, 06:49 PM

Lord Blackadder: How to deal with these rampaging herds of elephants? I need a plan...

Baldrick: My Lord, I have a cunning plan. If I may?

Lord Blackadder: This had better be good - Let us not forget you tried to solve the problem of your mother's low ceiling by cutting off her head.

Baldrick: My Lord, I have heard tales from those who have been to far off "La Brea", and they speak of a thing that devours even the mightiest of elephants without fail.

Lord Blackadder: Oh? And what is this "thing" you speak of?

Baldrick: They call this most dreadful of incantations, "Summon Tar Pit", my Lord.

-Time passes. Some mana and fatigue are spent. The elephants sink beneath a tarry mass the suddenly appears under their feet. Interestingly, some wandering Sabertooth Tigers are also caught in the trap.-

Lord Blackadder: HA! Got them with my subtle plan!

Baldrick: My Lord, that was -my- idea...

Lord Blackadder: Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"

Apologies to Blackadder

Forrest · #2 October 16th, 2007, 02:43 PM

While I have never played MP, every time I face elephants I know who to call.

Wolf tribe warriors. Stick them in the very front with attack large orders. They will have those big boys carved up and on the grill before anyone else can move. If I know it's coming I keep a stack of them in reserve for just this purpose.

Also, how about a food bonus for a turn for each elephant kill. I know my troops are eating them even though I don't see a bonus for it.

Aristander · #3 October 16th, 2007, 09:18 PM

My .02

In my first multiplayer game I was elephant rushed by Arcoscephale. I was playing Machaka and stoped his initial rush with Black Hunters. It seemed to me that the web ability slowed down the elephants enough for me to beat them off. I wonder if any of the troops with nets may be used as well?

Yrkoon · #4 October 17th, 2007, 06:45 AM

Aristander, I think black hunters are size 6 and therefore cannot be trampled. Are you sure it's not their size rather than the webs that stopped the elephants ?

As for nets, I think high strength allows to break free from them. And elephants are very strong so the nets would work only for 1 turn. Same for tangle vines. But slime should work : it's MR negates and elephants have an abysmal MR. I'm not sure about earth meld.

Endoperez · #5 October 17th, 2007, 06:48 AM

Earth Grip, after which Earth Meld is modeled, is strength-based.

thejeff · #6 October 17th, 2007, 08:27 AM

But it takes a turn to break free. That's a turn you're not being trampled and a turn you can hit them easily.

You'll need a lot of net troops, but you can keep netting them.

Probably doesn't scale. Large enough numbers of elephants should be able to overwhelm any number of net troops, but large numbers of elephants are expensive...