> but I'm not really coming up with much. War elephants are a slight exception - the best tactic against them seems to have been spreading out and killing the

> but I'm not really coming up with much. War elephants are a slight exception - the best tactic against them seems to have been spreading out and killing the driver with arrows or javalins - but it's less that bunching up was bad tactics and more that it wasn't enough; phalanxes could repel elephants fairly well, they just weren't good at actually taking them out of the fight.