Talk:Ballista Elephant/@comment-37.6.0.94-20170118111927/@comment-27198062-20170118124751

definitely not cavalry archers. neither are they affected by parthian tactics, nor by anti archer damage, nor anti-cavalry-archer damage (e.g. camel archers, but also skirmishers). a quick test suggests they are classified as siege weapons, cavalry, and war elephant. they also take an additional 2 damage when hit by one of these 3 anti attacks, besides the usual attack bonuses, for example they take 70 damage from 1 halberdier attack (both unupgraded): 6 base + 32 anti cavalry +2 weakness to anti cavalry +28 anti war elephant +2 weakness to anti war elephant. they also take bonus damage from magyar huszars for example: 9 base + 4 anti siege +2 anti siege weakness = 16 damage.

in terms of upgrades, they are affected by the cavalry armor upgrades and the siege engineers.