Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26553378-20160724223320/@comment-26347028-20160725194427

Fenrir lokisen wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

Minecraftmage113 wrote: um... its a mumakil, i get the point that it would be unreasonable for feeding but it is quite possible it just has a more efficient digestive system plus when the harad went to war there werent very large amount (im just going to have you yell at me about the movie stuff again now but...) and there werent any more than 20 in that battle scene if i recall correctly and that would undoubtedly be getting the mumakil any way possible so they are extremely rare, if you're woried about overpowered i guess i get that but they would be expensive as well as rare and they really were powerful (no it is nowhere near giant gold velociraptors) and it was never said they live in the savanah, by mods lore they live in jungle, by tolkiens lore he never really gave a native land they were just captured and used somehow by the haradrim

By the mod's law, they live in the jungle, hmm? That's near enough impossible for them to even get through a jungle without some very major drawbacks, so we can presume they aren't natives. And if they are, then they'll in all likelihood eat large parts of the trees, which would have extreme difficulty growing back, and so major deforestation would have taken place and the elephants would therefore have killed themselves mostly out. So, we've established they aren't native to the jungle. Where, then, the Savannah? Well, there's even less food there. To put it very simply, it's just unreasonable to say they could exist there in the dimensions you place them at. And if they were rare, how do you propose the Haradhrim saw the potential as war machines? With normal African elephants, which were rare in themselves, few were used in war. With these, if they were rarer still, it's fairly likely they wouldn't even be used in war.

Well some kingdoms, Turkey, india, used elaphants in the milita. They would all die to! But they would still be used in war at times...

Sparingly, because of how few there were and how hard they were to train. But the ones they did have were used, aye.