UNIT · WILDLIFE
Elephant
Elephant provides food when hunted, but fights back against Villagers, so bring enough hunters and manage the approach.
Overview
Elephant provides food when hunted, but fights back against Villagers, so bring enough hunters and manage the approach.
Availability and investment
Elephant becomes available in Age of Empires II. It is associated with Wildlife (Aggressive huntable). The listed cost is not separately recorded and the training time is not separately recorded. This tells you when it can first join an army and which resources must be reserved alongside Villager production, upgrades, and other military lines.
Combat profile
The available combat values are included here so the numbers can be read as a profile rather than an isolated list. Hit points and armor describe how long the unit can remain exposed; attack and any bonus damage describe what it threatens; range, reload, accuracy, and movement describe how reliably it can engage or disengage. A value shown for a whole upgrade line applies to the listed stages as recorded, so compare the stage names instead of treating the line as one base unit.
Field use
Keep this worker doing its assigned economic task; its contribution compounds over time, while taking it off work or losing it has an economic cost.
Related unit plan: Elephant Archer durable-fire support
Elephant Archer: Elephant Archers offer an unusually durable ranged body, making them useful when population efficiency and staying power matter more than damage per resource. They can support a front line while continuing to fire through a sustained fight Build the unit only when the economy can support its high cost, then keep the group behind a screen that prevents Pikemen, Monks, and other counters from reaching it. Use the durability to hold a firing position and support siege or infantry rather than sending Elephant Archers ahead as an isolated raiding force The unit is expensive and does not gain enough offensive power to justify replacing a cheaper archer mass in every matchup. Pikemen and Monks remain dangerous, and focused counters can erase the investment; scout before scaling production
Battlefield role and use
Elephant provides food when hunted, but fights back against Villagers, so bring enough hunters and manage the approach. This is a map entity rather than an ordinary production choice. Its food, herd, or threat role depends on where it spawns and how nearby Villagers interact with it.
- Focus
- Wildlife · Aggressive huntable
- Signature / category
- Aggressive huntable
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II
- Region
- Wildlife
- Classification
- Animals