Trample balance discussion

[HoneyBadger]

Are you familiar at all with the concept of field fortifications? How about breaking up a charge? Armies made field works all the time-especially good armies, like the Roman legions.

It's weird *not* to include them. It's weird *not* to do *anything* that works-not to mention pompous and suicidal. Ideally, soldiers should be able to dig pitfalls and spread caltrops, or just set up a bunch of spiked mounds-elephants are only very dangerous to an army when it has to face them out in the field, not when the opposing army's dug in. Elephants aren't modern tanks, afterall.

Since soldiers can't do that in the game, it should be allowable by magic.

The reason the elephants would attack them is because they'd be there. Why *wouldn't* they attack them? They're in the way.

If you need the summons to attack, for whatever reason, they certainly could do that. Just give each one 2 pike attacks per round, maybe a crossbow too, and up the cost to 5-6 Earth gems.