Anyone know how to hold against a carthage elephant storm?

[TriplicariusDEN]

Settings: Sparta, on an acropolis.

Any idea how to position my troops?

[agentx]

Prepare and counter with a ranged siege tornado.

[TriplicariusDEN]

Prepare and counter with a ranged siege tornado.

How about without siege? D: It's a bit hard to make.

C=cav

H=Hoplite

S=Sword-guy

P=Priest

[TriplicariusDEN]

Maybe this?

________________C C C C__________________________

TOWER C C C C TOWER

HHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHH

SSSS SSSS SSSS

SKIRMISHER LINE

P P P

Swordsmen and hoplites could use the cavalry gaps to take out any enemy cav/hoplites while cav counters elephants.

Edited September 7, 2014 by TriplicariusDEN

[TriplicariusDEN]

If your reading, please give your ideas.

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

Spearmen do have a bonus against elephants so they should be deployed at the front. The skirmishers should be positioned behind them. Cavalry are not effective in elephant warfare, yet swordsmen could be useful as reserves if the spearman line breaks.

[serveurix]

Spearmen do have a bonus against elephants so they should be deployed at the front. The skirmishers should be positioned behind them. Cavalry are not effective in elephant warfare, yet swordsmen could be useful as reserves if the spearman line breaks.

Hoplites are cheaper than swordsmen and would probably do better against elephants, provided they are all at elite rank. Nevertheless, a good group of spartan champions, blocking a narrow entrance, eventually assisted by Leonidas' aura, should hold very long against an all-elephant rush.

[TriplicariusDEN]

Hoplites are cheaper than swordsmen and would probably do better against elephants, provided they are all at elite rank. Nevertheless, a good group of spartan champions, blocking a narrow entrance, eventually assisted by Leonidas' aura, should hold very long against an all-elephant rush.

Especially, if about 15 women are getting resources from another ally territory to fuel the war machine. And that could eventually evolve into the making of siege engines. Which means dead elephants. Of course, I could also add my ally to flank the elephants. And of course, realistically, the elephant thing would have spearmen or swordsmen backing em up. Thats when my cav/swords surge. And so, if my ally was macedon, they could lend me a line of foot companions.

[TriplicariusDEN]

H=Hoplite

F=Foot companion from macedon

S=Skirmisher

C=Cavalry

SS=Siege

SW=Swordsman

_=Impassible part

T=Tower

L=Leonidas

P=Priest

Edited September 7, 2014 by TriplicariusDEN

[TriplicariusDEN]

_________________FFFFFFFFF__________________ Seem like an ideal defense?

T HHHHLHHHH T

PP HHHHHHHHH PP

SWSWSWSW SSSSSSSSSS SWSWSWSW

SS SS SS SS

Edited September 7, 2014 by TriplicariusDEN

[Tango_]

just make an infantry skirmishers mass, and hit and run these phants.

inf skirm > phants

inf skirm faster than phants -> hit and run them

if you want to shoot these phants "easily", product some melee units who'll be used as cannon folder, while your inf inf will do the job.