Elephants...

[jomni]

I think I saw elephants (and ships) in the game files. Will there be an expansion that uses these? I'm curious because it fits the theme of 16th century South East Asia Burma-Siam Wars... maybe my next mod project after Sengoku Jidai. I'll call it "War of the White Elephants".

And has the elephant rules been coded in the game already?

[TheGrayMouser]

If I recall from a prior post by RBS, elephants are fully coded, there just is no unit model or textures to support them...

[rbodleyscott]

If I recall from a prior post by RBS, elephants are fully coded, there just is no unit model or textures to support them...

Correct.

[jomni]

A few more questions:

1) How many elephants are there in a FOG base?

2) How may men do I put in squads.csv for elephant units? Same as regular cavalry? An elephant can have a crew of 2 to 4 depending on the culture. In addition, The south east asians also had one foot troop for each elephant leg. That brings the count to 7 men per elephant.

3) Will there be an expansion with elephants?

[rbodleyscott]

The representational scale for elephants is rather vague.

Elephants are already in the squads file. I would avoid mucking about too much with the unitsize attrib as that may have unforseen effects - like possibly making them over-effective. You can alter the totalmen attrib without altering the unitsize. After all, it is the elephants that are the main weapon, not the men with them.

For the same reason you should not give elephants any combat capabilities, whatever their crew was armed with. The full combat effect of elephants is already taken into account in the combat code.

We would like to make an expansion with elephants but it is not currently scheduled.

[jomni]

Thanks for the tips.

[AEWHistory]

Interesting tidbit this thread contains. This is a nice indicator of some of the future ideas the programmers may have for the game.... or someone has finally decided to sim to long forgotten and overlooked Swedish elephants of Gustavus Adolphus's army in the 30YW! Probably the former and not that latter methinks.