- Early castle Age elephant builds with Malay can be really, really sick on many different maps, i have even seen Malay Flank go elephants on arabia in castle age, which can absolutely destroy the other Flank or force the pocket kts player to take really bad trades against it. Malay elephants defenetly have their place in the Game right now.
- Khmer elephants are fine - OP in some situations - and defenetly dont need any buff
- Burmese and Vietnam Battle Elephants (kind of like Persians, but not as extreme) are a Unit for Post-Imperial game, when trade is running. Having 60 Elite Battle Elephants as a flank in post imp is certainly better then having 60 Arbalest. They even can be used in 1v1 in certain situations, even though not very common. Both of these Civs do have many other options and dont need a buff (you could argue for burmese, but not on their elephants)
If anything, its the elephants archers or even more the Ballista elephants that would need some kind of buff.
Btw, even the biggest armies in medieval times, even pre-medieval classical times never had more then 30-50 elephants fighting alongside armies of 50.000 or so. I dont see any reason why in AoE we should see 100 Battle elephants fighting together with 100 cavarly archers or something.
- Khmer elephants are fine - OP in some situations - and defenetly dont need any buff
- Burmese and Vietnam Battle Elephants (kind of like Persians, but not as extreme) are a Unit for Post-Imperial game, when trade is running. Having 60 Elite Battle Elephants as a flank in post imp is certainly better then having 60 Arbalest. They even can be used in 1v1 in certain situations, even though not very common. Both of these Civs do have many other options and dont need a buff (you could argue for burmese, but not on their elephants)
If anything, its the elephants archers or even more the Ballista elephants that would need some kind of buff.
Btw, even the biggest armies in medieval times, even pre-medieval classical times never had more then 30-50 elephants fighting alongside armies of 50.000 or so. I dont see any reason why in AoE we should see 100 Battle elephants fighting together with 100 cavarly archers or something.