Age Of Empires 4 - How To Defend Against Elephants

This guide will show you how to defeat enemy elephant troops in Age of Empires 4.

How to counter elephants in Age of Empires 4?

Ways to counter elephants

Uses Spears and Mangonel. You use a spear to counter the Elephant and a Mangonel for the Healers.

It can also be used to fight elephants - this is Russian headcans.

Key points

• spear method and mangonel: first use the mangonel to destroy the healers. Mangonels are effective as you don't have to be very precise when aiming them as they deal area damage. When the healers leave, you can easily kill the elephants with spears.
• Russian Cannon Cannon Method: Russian headcans deal massive damage to elephants. And if you can stack a lot of them, you can even kill elephants in one hit.

⊗ Remember that there are two types of elephants in Age of Empires IV. These are war elephants and war elephants with towers. If you want to get elephants for yourself, you need to play as the Delhi Sultanate Civilization. And when you play as the Sultanate of Delhi, you can unlock both of these troops in Age III.