How about giving a rider to the War Elephants?
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I like them seeming like autonomous units or creatures, so I wouldn’t want.
Guess for me it is similar to not wanting or needing to see people hauling mangonels and trebs around, or on fishing boats.
It helps keep a charming RTS game for me. Realistic enough for the game world, but not overly realistic. Focus is on the units themselves and what they represent, similar to chess pieces, not on also showcasing with 100% accuracy who operates or controls said units. (And for the other stuff, like mangonels and trebs, it helps gameplay by not having to sit around waiting for a group of people to maneuver them around as they do in AoE3)
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I support this. Plus, manned mangos and scorpions.
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Trebuchets and Siege Towers too.
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That would make sense. However, they might look too similar to battle elephants.
You have to be blind to mix them up. Anyway, its a bad thing if a horde of them come storming at you. It would be good to have a Persian looking mahout. Different from the SEAsian and Indian elephant units.
Would be a fine mod. I personally wouldn’t use it (b/c I don’t care), but for people who do care, it would be a good mod.
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Who will create the mod?
The devs. If they can make mememods for those events, why not give the elephants some riders. I just want a consistent game.
Just realized no one is operating the Ballista Elephant lmao.
Honestly just add another cavalry unit where it’s just a horse haha.
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Agree too. A Khmer warrior atop the Ballista Elephant is needed.
I always imagine Siege Units to be riderless in AoE2. Ballista Elephant is sort of a siege unit only just like the War Wagons and Hussite Wagons.
While I don’t mind getting operators for all of them. It’s not that big of an immersion breaker to me. In fact I might go the opposite way and remove the operator of Bombard Cannons and Houfnice which is the odd one out just to make all Siege units consistent.
War Elephants on the other hand don’t seem to have any valid reason why they shouldn’t have a rider. They are like big brother of Battle Elephant by name and function.
I’m so glad someone made a mod to add operators cus it looks so cool and as far as the war elephant, I just pretend it doesn’t exist haha.