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Armored Elephant building-pressure plan
Armored Elephant: Armored Elephants can pressure structures while remaining cavalry-class units, so their role and counterplay differ from conventional siege weapons. Their food cost also competes directly with Villager production and other military lines.
Overview
Armored Elephant: Armored Elephants can pressure structures while remaining cavalry-class units, so their role and counterplay differ from conventional siege weapons. Their food cost also competes directly with Villager production and other military lines.
Plan and execution
Use them behind a screened frontline to damage a wall, Gate, or key building after defenders are occupied. Keep infantry or ranged units between the Elephants and anti-cavalry troops, and use ordinary siege when the target can be attacked safely at range. Balance food income before adding several Elephants.
Risks and adaptation
Spearmen and Monks threaten the cavalry-class unit, and the heavy food demand can delay an Age advance or army reinforcement. Do not treat Armored Elephants as a replacement for every siege role or send them alone into a defended base.
- Focus
- Cavalry-class siege support
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
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