Domesticable elephant?

Stephen

Banned
A smaller animal is more effiecient at putting fodder into use whether it is meat and milk of motive power, as a larger animal must devote a larger proportion of its biomass to its skeleton. Larger cows an horses were only favoured because it saves on time hitching up one horse instead of ten. But elephants are so large they cant gallop.
 
OK, while all y'all haters were busy arguing, I went and did something about it. I'm selling them for $900 a-piece (delivery fees not included). ;)

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The King and Somebody Else

Wasn't that Yule Brenner in the "King and I?"
Of course Siam ( Thailand ). The elephants are assigned to a training facility to get used to the sounds of gunfire. They prove usefull for lifting and halling. They are rembered for helping rerail a train and the day one of them picked up a Major who was critical of elephants and refused to put him down.
 
Why would the Romans want to adopt the elephant for war when they not only defeated all the pachy using armies but had tactics to handle a charge by them? They were good at adopted useful technology which elephants are not. As a weapon of war they are nearly as overrated as the scythed chariot.

The Romans did adopt elephants for warfare. Claudius used them in his invasion of Britain. It's just not worthwhile if your supply of them is tenuous and your army depends on different techniques and weapons anyway. If the Romans had had easy access to elephanmts (say, the north African population survived), chances are good they'd have continued using them.

Elephants are OK for warfare, but their applications are limited. They don't work like tanks or steamrollers.
 
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