Talk:Elephant Archer (Age of Empires II)/@comment-96.244.45.134-20171019012915/@comment-27726014-20180619062142

Cannons on elephants didn't come until much later. The sway of an elephant decreases accuracy and with hand cannons already being inaccurate it made it nearly impossible to hit anything. Cannons were used because they can shoot further and so they can of served as ancient self propelled artillery. Artillery at the time was more psycological so it didn't actually need to hit anyone.

The reason cannons were not used until later was because of smelting and casting technology. Elephants are not as strong as many people think they are and so the heavy iron cannons of the time would have been too much for them.