What is the most successful empire that used war elephants?

>>578219
guptas or the mauryas desu

What was that one that ruled most of the world?

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>>578229
Finno-Mongols

>>578219

The British Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howard_Williams

In the case of Rome also, elephants weren't always on the enemy's side:
>Rome brought back many elephants at the end of the Punic Wars, and used them in its campaigns for many years afterwards. The conquest of Greece saw many battles in which the Romans deployed war elephants, including the invasion of Macedonia in 199 BC, the battle of Cynoscephalae 197 BC,[31] the battle of Thermopylae,[32] and the battle of Magnesia in 190 BC, during which Antiochus III's fifty-four elephants took on the Roman force of sixteen. In later years the Romans deployed twenty-two elephants at Pydna in 168 BC.[33]

>They also featured throughout the Roman campaign against the Celtiberians in Hispania and against the Gauls. Famously, the Romans used a war elephant in the invasion of Britain, one ancient writer recording that "Caesar had one large elephant, which was equipped with armor and carried archers and slingers in its tower. When this unknown creature entered the river, the Britons and their horses fled and the Roman army crossed over,"[34] - although he may have confused this incident with the use of a similar war elephant in Claudius' final conquest of Britain. At least one elephant skeleton with flint weapons that has been found in England was initially misidentified as these elephants, but later dating proved it to be a mammoth skeleton from the stone age.[35]

>By the time of Claudius however, such animals were being used by the Romans in single numbers only - the last significant use of war elephants in the Mediterranean was against the Romans at the battle of Thapsus, 46 BC, where Julius Caesar armed his fifth legion (Alaudae) with axes and commanded his legionaries to strike at the elephant's legs. The legion withstood the charge, and the elephant became its symbol. Thapsus was the last significant use of elephants in the West.[36]

The battle of Cynoscephalae is also where the Macedonian phalanx got BTFO:

http://www.roman-empire.net/army/cynoscephalae.html

>>578267
Polyperchon, one of Alexander the Great's generals, used war elephants:

https://books.google.gr/books?id=-5RHK4Ol15QC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=polyperchon+war+elephants&source=bl&ots=dloVtj9I1n&sig=E2-Ba527f_2B_BMpT8fBnDix1wU&hl=el#v=onepage&q=polyperchon%20war%20elephants&f=false

It was also the first use of war elephants in European soil.

>>578244
>a guy uses nellie as pack animal
>WE WUZ ELEPHANTS AND SHIT

>tfw Romans made North Africa elephants extinct due to overhunting for use in venatio games

>>578267
>1 elefun
>significant

>>578300
>the Romans deployed twenty-two elephants at Pydna
We wuz mahouts and shit, mang

>>578219
Mughals were pretty powerful at one point. They loved elephants.

>>578219
Carthage

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>>578219
Indian states really. Hands down

Just to drive the point further: most other civilizations just got young elephants in the wild and broke them in. India fucking stabled them and had breeding herds as if they were warhorses.

Indian States were the longest to use war elephants among any entity really. The Mediterranean/Africa gave up on them.

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kek

>>578574
Are there any point using war elephants, when you have machine guns?

I can understand using it move heavy stuff like artillery, but it sounds useless desu.

>>578219
Timurids.

>>578273

Those fucking elephants died for your freedom, cheeky cunt.

>>578626
nah, they died because of logging shit.

>>578269
Seleucus apparently had 500 of them at Ipsus, obtained from these lads >>578223

>>578590
like you said, other than heavy labour they became obsolete in combat once cannons were deployed

>>579072
>nah, they died because of logging shit.

Logging shit against the hoardes of the dastardly emporer Hirohito and the cruel dictator, Hitler.

They stood against bombs and bullets and acid and never ran, they just waved their trunks in defiance.

They fought against tyranny, they fought for freedom and democracy and the Queen and the Empire and US constiution.

They never backed down and they never surrendered. They stared into the face of tyranny and stuck their tusks up its nostrils.

Cheeky fucker.

>>579119
>mughals were pioneers in artillery
>they used heavily armored war elephants.

>>579175
>its ok when they die for queen victoria
>its ok when anglo faggot wants a trophy
>its ok when their habitat is systematically destroyed because the eternal anglo needs shekels.

Well India was the one civilization that didn't drive their war elephants to extinction so I'm going to say India.

>>579177
Not everybody the Mughs fought had artillery.

Not to mention Elephants can fight in the jungle as opposed to Cavalrymen.

>>579183

>it's ok when they die for queen victoria

Exactly.

Queen Victoria and her elephants were the unsung heroes that won WW2.

>>579191
the only time mughals fought in jungles were a mixed bag for them.
they couldn't conquer assam and their hold on north bengal was pretty loose.
and so was their hold on south bengal.

>>578219
None really, all you have to do is use incendiary pigs against them

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>>578219

The Mughals, they dressed them in full plate and they even conducted sieges with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBPtIyfd1No

>>578219
Glorious Senatus et Populusque Romani. Disgusting Guptas go home.

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>>580474

>>580635
>loses to huns