"How do you actualy kill an armord elephant" Topic

Killing an armord man is hard enough, killing a regular elephant is hard enough, but how the hell do you kill an armord elephant.

Short of getting hit by a balista/ongar they would seem impervious to most weapons.

Spike his drinks

With an armored mouse?

Same way you kill a mosquito:

YouTube link

Just annoy it enough so that it starts running amok, forcing the mahout to kill it.

Here's a link to a documentary showing a tribal gathering in Africa in which something like 2000 tribesman go on a mass hunting spree. It includes an elephant being speared to death. This starts at 2.30 minutes on the video. It's clear the elephant has already been under sustained attack before the video starts.

Be warned it is VERY GRAPHIC and shows the elephant (and the other animals) taking a huge amount of punishment.

link

Wait, I know this one!

"Take away his credit card."

No, that's not it… uh

"Because his white ones were in the wash."

No, not right…

"To hide in the jelly bean jar."

Hang on, I'll get it in a while…

I hear the rear armor is thin, and with the lack of an anti-personnel MG, it's pretty vulnerable.

Very Carefully

If you're name is Eleazar, you stab it in the belly and then don't get out of the way quick enough…

"Now Eleazar, called Avaran, saw that one of the animals was equipped with royal armour. It was taller than all the others, and he supposed that the king was on it. So he gave his life to save his people and to win for himself an everlasting name. He courageously ran into the midst of the phalanx to reach it; he killed men right and left, and they parted before him on both sides. He got under the elephant, stabbed it from beneath, and killed it; but it fell to the ground upon him and he died." I Maccabees 6:43-6

Skirmishers – underbelly, hocks; can also attempt to kill the driver -javelins and panic the beast back into it's own lines. Most rules gave quite a bit of latitude to skirmishers against elephants whatever they might be wearing that day.

Kill the enemy general and allow his army to surrrender to you and join.

Either that, or roll a 20.

BIG can opener.

Miss the armour!

Tell him his sweetheart Nelly has packed her trunk and gone away to the circus, it will break his heart.

With a Warthog of course!!

Yep. That'll do it…

I just watched the video linked to above. They certainly take a lot of killing – but then again, so did most of the larger game. No wonder people invented guns. Getting that close to those large animals is dangerous work. Everyone alive today must have had ancient ancestors who were adroit at dodging the flailing hooves, horns, trunks etc.

IIRC the Romans fighting armoured Numidian Elephants were given a tutorial showing the gaps and weak points in the kit.

(from Appian's Jugurtha???)

Regards

David F Brown

Whichever way you decide upon, it still only counts as one.

(Ducks and runs for cover.)

Choke him till he turns blue, then shoot him with a blue elephant gun.

A picture with Eleazar (and his horse!?) under the Elephant.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

joints, hamstrings, etc. are all places where there can't be any armor if the nellie is going to be able to move.

if you're exceptionally brave or suicidal, you go for the belly.

I read somewhere that they were susceptible to light infantry, and I presume it was because they were able to get up under the monsters with sharp stabby objects. The Selucid solution was to deploy 30-40 light infantrymen for every elephant to prevent enemy lights from getting near. Or so I've read. Otherwise, I think the best you could hope for when facing armored elephants is a lucky arrow in the eye, or at least kill the crew.

IIRC the Romans fighting armoured Numidian Elephants were given a tutorial showing the gaps and weak points in the kit.

(from Appian's Jugurtha???)

Regards

David F Brown

Possibly Caesar's De Bello Africo? Caesar trains his troops in anti-elephant fighting, using elephants IMPORTED into Africa, from the Roman circuses! Scipio trains his elephants, too, but not well enough.

Cheers, Simon

Send him to the Toronto Zoo

How about: 'With kindness'? Awww, how sweet. Why didn't anybody else say that?

amazed no one has mentioned running up its back, swinging off the howdah ropes and getting behind its neck to fire an arrow into the back of its skull.

action elf style

Go for the eyes with arrows, don't you read Tolkien?…