In Field of Glory, the Later Carthaginian list allows 6 elephants BUT if you take a Numidian ally, you can field 8 in total. Elephants will reportedly get 3 dice per base at impact in FoG 2. We're ready to bring it, en masse.
Thureophoroi: My Thureophoroi, based as Medium Foot, give the Carthaginians another unit to contest and fight in terrain. They can be paired with a unit of elephants in a battle line.
Slitherine announced that version 2 will be published in paper and digital format after all. That's excellent news as an iPad/laptop only version would have scotched Field of Glory 2 in our club. We've been reading the announced list of changes and we're quite anxious to give them a try. So anxious in fact that a buddy and I printed out the list of changes and put them into a game with my newly painted Carthaginians. I'll post the AAR next week with a few observations. The short version is I'll be a Day 1 purchaser when the new rules hit the market. Two years of tweaking and field testing has paid handsome dividends, in my opinion.