A group of 30 Mamelukes can take down an elephant in a single strike. Mamelukes are downright the best counter to Elephants! Mamelukes deal 22 damage per hit, but their strength lays once again in their masses. Unique to the Saracens, who already have superior Camels. They’re okay if you have nothing else available but all the aforementioned units perform better. Indians do a bit better with their Imperial Camel Riders at 27 per hit but also have more HP to throw in the scales. They don’t deal that much damage however, but still pack a punch at 25 damage per hit.
Just like Halberdiers, camels are an easy to play counter. In case you’re facing Heavy Scorpions against your Elephants, you’ll absolutely want to use “Spread formation” to minimize the area damage of the Scorpion bolts.
But in a group of elephants it can quickly rise to 100 damage per bolt! Additionally, Scorpions absolutely need to be upgraded to Heavy Scorpion to be fully effective. A single bolt does 18 damage against an elephant. And it will inflict damage to every unit it passes. A Scorpion’s bolt passes through a lot of units. Once again, their power is in large groups. This is probably the most surprising unit of the bunch, but these guys are a great counter to elephants as well. Just make sure to combine them with Halberdiers, otherwise you can easily be countered by Hussars yourself.
Special researches aside, Monks stay a very effective counter. In fact, out of all civilizations that have Elephants, Malay are the only ones that can research Heresy. But they lack the Heresy upgrade, which makes units die in case they’re converted. And most important, they’re available to all civilizations! Persians can react to this by researching “Faith”, which makes units 50% harder to convert. Monks are the single most effective unit against War Elephants. Throw your wololos in the air like you just don’t care. While Persian War Elephants cost a whopping 200 food, 75 gold. Their strength is definitely in numbers! The best part is that Halberdiers only cost a little wood and food. As long as you send your Halberdiers in groups to fight Elephants, you should be able to easily counter them. However, they’re quite weak themselves, so they die after only dealing 2 strikes. The easiest counter to Elephants has to be the Halberdier. Obviously, Persians are not the only ones to field Elephants! Burmese, Khmer, Malay and Vietnamese all have access to the Battle Elephant, a cheaper and weaker alternative to the Persian War Elephant that can be trained from the Stable.Īlthough they’re both different units, they can both be very hard to deal with, but luckily their weaknesses and counters are the same! Let’s have a look at the stats of the Persian War Elephant. The most satisfying army to field and one of the most annoying ones to fight.
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