New elephant unit ideas?

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I would like to link 2 old threads about eles we had some time ago:

How would you buff the Battle Elephant?

Battle Elephants are one of the coolest unit in the game, but usually don’t make a lot of sense in 1v1 games. I guess they are fine in team games where they provide a good population efficient unit. However every civilisation that has Battle eles in their stable and is also described as an elephant civ/reliant on elephants seem to struggle a bit. Especially Burmese and Bengalis, with Malay and Vietnamese being good civs but they generally want to play arabalest. So do you think it’s a good ide…

Brainstorming: Ideas for Eles - how to give them more Identity

As we now have an interesting discussion going on about how to buff the Battle Eles I would like to make a brainstorming about “what could battle eles offer to the player what knights are bad in”? So the Idea of this thread is to find some kind of Utility battle eles can provide to make it situationally more appealing to go for them over knights. I try to begin with my biggest “I hate this!” with knights moments. This is when I got a good opening in feudal and hit a better timing than the opp…

and this:

On Battle Elephants and Bengali

I have been making this case for quite a while now, but wanted to wait until the August patch definitively dropped before making my case to give the developers the benefit of the doubt. This might be a long one. It’s no secret that battle elephants just aren’t there. Pretty much everyone knows this, but it causes more problems downstream of the fact than a lot of people expect. For starters, Battle Elephants are responsible for the state of Bengali as an absolutely ridiculous meme civilization…