Bombard Elephant?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Would you like to see elephants with a bombard cannon on their back? Unit has the same stats of hp and armour as the elephant archer, but has 12 range and the damage of a bombard cannon.

Basically the unit is a high hp bombard cannon unit. That can be healed by monks since it’s a cavalry unit.

They could be an untrainable unit, that can only be trained in scenarios, to stop guys whining over how overpowered they are. You need to add a trigger to allow training of Bombard Elephant. Or spawn them with create unit in order to have them in game.

Basically this unit from AOE 3.
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Yes. Elephants make me happy. Specially when they don’t have a rider like the ballista or the war elephants

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Seems to be pretty OP to me. Bombard cannons are already pretty strong. Therefore they are slow and have not that much HP. This seems a big buff to the bombard cannon.

It might be some hero unit for a certain civ. But that is all to me for this unit.

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This unit has like 14 pop IIRC.

If we don’t consider that and have it as scenario only

Why not.

But I feel like re-using ideas might not be great

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Just said scenario only unit. You can edit the stats of units in scenarios if needed. Or make fancy triggers or whatever.

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It would be appropriate as hero or cheat code unit :slightly_smiling_face:

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I think it is an awesome cheat unit to fill a event mission.

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If it’s a cheat unit then we obviously need a trebuchet elephant, it would be way funnier to have

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Oh, boy the fun we can have with that unit

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Better a trebuchet firing elephants

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Actually this sounds more like a cheat unit.

A treb shooting FU EWE

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Actually someone made a mod around DE’s release that did just that lmao

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I made it. I also made it for AOE 2 2013 version (in steam workshop). Elephant Trebuchet mod.

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I wasn’t expecting an answer from the mod creator the next minute I posted that 11

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That’s honestly great

gg

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Here’s an even more insane one. Mumakil trebuchet. For AOE 2 2013.

A true doomsday weapion.

Mumakil

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There’s a mod for trebuchets that fire Elite Battle Elephants

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I don’t think this is a good idea. The sound would scare the elephant, and the constant explosions would give them CTE.