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[art/actors] remove turret from cart elephant
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Authored by Nescio on Jun 1 2020, 6:44 PM.

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Stan
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rP23730: Remove inaccurate howdah from the carthaginian champion elephant.
Summary

This patch removes the turret from the Carthaginian champion elephant actor.
(Hannibal keeps his, because of how elephant heroes are designed in 0 A.D.)

Turrets on war elephants are attested for the Battle of Raphia (Ptolemies vs Seleucids) in 217 BC (Polybius 5.84). However, the communis opinio is that the war elephants fielded by Carthage (and Rome) did not ordinarily have turrets, because none of the authors describing the Punic Wars mention them, nor are they depicted on Carthaginian coinage, mosaics, stelae, etc.

See also https://wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?/topic/28168-war-elephants/page/2/&tab=comments#comment-396952, triggered by a question from @genava55.

For comparison, kush, maur, and pers war elephants don't have turrets either.

Test Plan

Agree this is an improvement.

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Event Timeline

Nescio created this revision.Jun 1 2020, 6:44 PM
Owners added a subscriber: Restricted Owners Package.Jun 1 2020, 6:44 PM
Vulcan added a comment.Jun 1 2020, 6:45 PM

Build failure - The Moirai have given mortals hearts that can endure.

Link to build: https://jenkins.wildfiregames.com/job/docker-differential/2288/display/redirect

I agree with this change. No problem with it.

Stan accepted this revision.Jun 2 2020, 10:01 AM
Stan added a subscriber: Stan.

Historical accuracy is important, the change doesn't affect anything but art, so it's good to me.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 2 2020, 10:01 AM
This revision was landed with ongoing or failed builds.Jun 2 2020, 10:02 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.