3 crew per elephant. There can be no doubt that these elephants are not in North Africa. Though no dimensions are given for these elephants, they are apparently the same as the ones that Carthage used. Elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, anyway you look at it, elephants are big, from the Africanus to the Indicus , well, actually except for ours. These guys only stood about 7-8 ft tall at the shoulder.
Sources show the elephants either with a tower or without.
With a tower the modus operandi was obvious, you speared or shot at your enemies from a moving hill. Without the tower, the elephants' purpose would be trampling or just breaking up enemy formations by sheer bulk. Ancient writers have noted that horses, if confronted by elephants for the first time, were prone to panic due to the strange smell. However, elephants themselves were easily panicked, and battles have been lost by panicking or turning the elephants against their own soldiers. Return to H T home page All painted figures by Eric Williamson.