I think this patch really messed up the elephants. Before they often used to cause a lot of superficial knockdown casualties, but now that's all they cause, making them almost useless in any multiplayer armies. Today I was using the Seleucids in multiplayer as usual, and as usual knew that elephants are a crucial part of any high budget Seleucid army right? Wrong! The new patch made the elephants pathetic. They're good for nothing but causing disorganization. They don't even provide that same crucial fear factor that they used to. I was fighting a huge Julii army today with no upgrades, and I told my Cataphract Elephants to charge straight into a unit of First Cohort Legionaries. I caused 3 deaths out of all of the soldiers knocked down. THREE un-upgraded legionaries died from a charge by Cataphract Elephants with 1 valor and 1 armor. For anyone who's strategy used to incorporate elephants, I now reccommend that unless you're fighting an all cavalry Parthian or Scythian noob, don't waste your money on these oversized mice. They're officially more useless than wardogs in multiplayer.