Talk:Elephant Archer (Age of Empires II)/@comment-92.57.158.87-20190328183751/@comment-2003:DB:F3D6:1BD2:CC3E:B6B3:89AD:4CD4-20190728141453

You are right... but also wrong. Mostly, you are just wrong.
 * "Well that would be historically accurate though as elephant archers were not all that useful. Their accuracy was lower than a normal archer meaning a shorter effective range. Also the elephants were massive targets."

The thing you are missing is, that elephant-archers weren't archer-units. They weren't even Cav-Archers. They were ELEPHANTS, with archers ADDED onto them! - what that means? - MASSIVE trample-damage. The archers are just there to take care of specific threats that may close in on them, which the elephants themselves would otherwise have trouble dealing with, like being surrounded by long spears. And burning pigs, maybe; but that's a totally different story...

Don't give me that "historically accurate" non-sequitur, when you haven't even done your due dilligence, to actually think it through. Otherwise it's just pretentious!