New icons added.
Imperial Gajah has been superseded by Shahi Hathy - just as well.
The skins for both Elephant Archers and Shahi Hathy are complete as are their sounds. It's just that they aren't properly balanced although we expect the Armoured Elephant or Bakhtarband Hathy to have the same stats as the imperial Gajah but have a melee attack as opposed to a ranged one.

How we get this unit to have a melee attack is beyond me especially since it needs new animations for its back rider.

[25.19/1]
Some good news - we have all the units we need. It took far less time and resources than I had feared.
Gupta mahouts were also found to have been encased in heavy scale mail. So we can mix and match them at will with the 6 Indo-Muslim elephant models. So we should start concentrating on adding these elephant units to Project Yesugei now.

The problem however, is that the lance attack animations for the Rajput heavy elephant are still outstanding. Perhaps e should worry about these later, and concentrate on all the elephant archers first!

In the meantime, this update compiles all the BH3 files we will ever need for elephant units in this mod.

[25.18/1]
Finally, Hoysala figures are complete and ready to go. A new sheet along with 4 different models representing 4 different Hoysala elephant riders (2 mahouts, 2 archers) has been added, alongside the Vietnamese heavy and light elephant archers.

We are still in trouble, though.

Indo-Rajput elephant.
- Find the old neo-Gupta mahouts for Project 666. Check on them and see if they can be reused. Break them up and redistribute, if possible.
- Lancers for said elephant. Look for Rise of the Moderns' spearmen for India and convert. Not easy, most likely we will be using a cavalry unit as a model. Animations will also be hell.

Probable units for conversion:

- spear_india from Rise of the Moderns,
- archer_composite

Heavy elephant
- armmilit_turkey2, spear_india2 can be converted into Mahouts.
- Archers? swordsman_muslim from Rise of Kings., armmilit_turkey should be converted into archers.

[25.14/1]
So, a Hoysala elephant is WIP. However, it needs to have light armour, and there is where I am having trouble.

The first one is essentially a replica of the Libukos model, resizsed and then given its own special skin. However the second one is going to be tougher to do. I do not think we can re-use the heavier models from Project 666. So that means, more elephant models, again. How Sync can cope with this is anyone's guess, the system is already creaking.

[25.16/1]
- Asian elephant (merc) for tribal units that train from a warrior hall. Done but not impelemented.
- Elephant Archer (Hoysala,Vietnam) - Hoysala done but not Vietnamese units. Should test the Hoysala first before continuing.
- Armoured Gajah (Hindustan, Rajput): no howdah, requires heavy armoured mahouts and a spear guy (possibly based on a horseman unit). Elephant is WIP.

- Imperial Gajah (all factions, elephant with howdah). May need to reuse old elephants but add a more elabourate Howdah.