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[dresdor]

So, my hunters are either really incompetent or elephants are way more powerful than they once were.

I've got a load of crossbow-wielding hunters, most of whom are Master marksdwarves by now, and after unloading hundreds of bolts into elephants, there have been no elephant kills.  The best I've seen is a red wound to a trunk, but that elephant fled the map very swiftly.  It seems that the yellow wounds the elephants had been getting heal in a few days, leading to no elephant deaths.

What am I doing wrong?

[Thisfox]

They have always been powerful. Remember Boatmurdered.

[dresdor]

They have always been powerful. Remember Boatmurdered.

Powerful, yes, but never immortal.  After 800+ rounds, someone should have had a critical hit to the head somewhere.

[Thisfox]

I had a giant attack. The newly elected mayor happened to be the leader of a unit of militia, and apparently everyone liked him so much that the entire dorf population of the fort wanted to protect this new mayor, so they all stacksed-on the Giant, mobbing him from every direction. He soon had very red toes, and feet, and even legs. But no one could reach his head for the killer blow. Eventually someone did, but I laughed when I realised that the head-smasher had a very good climbing skill. XD

Perhaps you're suffering from a similar problem. Are the toenails of your elephants red, so they can hide in a strawberry patch? Are their legs yellow, so that they can hide in... a banana patch?  I mean, the trunk could have reached down and got hurt when it was low enough to reach. We are talking dorfs, here. Really short. Perhaps you need a stepladder   

Spoiler: irrelevant (click to show/hide)

Far more hilarious was the fact that the giant would pick up the dwarfs, rip their clothing off, throw it across the map in one direction, and throw the now half naked dorfs in the other direction, repeatedly. This appeared to be his attack method. Pick up a dorf, rip the clothing off, throw clothing away, throw dorf away, pick up another dorf....    I was picking up undies and socks and shirts and dresses all over the map for MONTHS afterward, as most of the population went to get new clothes from the stockpile, instead of claiming their old ones.

[dresdor]

Well, since its a marksdwarf attacking, I don't think height is a problem (and I've seen kidney/ears/eye injuries).

I finally killed one, but it took a legendary woodcutter with a battle axe.  He chopped the elephant down while everyone else held it down.

Oh, and elephants have been unconcious for most of the battles, so I doubt height is the issue.

[StagnantSoul]

I saw an ogre rip off a guy's loincloth through a cloak, robe, and a pair of leggings. Because logic.

[Thisfox]

I saw an ogre rip off a guy's loincloth through a cloak, robe, and a pair of leggings. Because logic.

Now THAT'S an atomic megawedgie!!! 

...or he could have been wearing his underwear on the outside, like a superhero. 

[Devstorm]

I saw an ogre rip off a guy's loincloth through a cloak, robe, and a pair of leggings. Because logic.

Now THAT is a wedgie the likes of which we can only imagine. 

Gah, ninja'd!

[Baffler]

Marksdwarves are pretty much useless on their own. They need either infantry support or an enemy that doesn't need to die, per se, to be effective. If the elephants really must die, sent out some speardwarves to help them. Otherwise there's not much they can do but injure them enough to make them run away or piss them off enough to gore your hunters.

[utunnels]

Marksdwarf sucks. If you want they to kill things, that is.

My stray war elephant was beaten up by a wereskink! All he could do was shaking like a little kitten.
Fortunately he was tough enough to stay alive so the wereskink changed back into a human and was killed by my military.

[dresdor]

Marksdwarf sucks. If you want they to kill things, that is.

My stray war elephant was beaten up by a wereskink! All he could do was shaking like a little kitten.
Fortunately he was tough enough to stay alive so the wereskink changed back into a human and was killed by my military.

Oh how the mighty marksdwarf has fallen.

[ShutUpWesley]

I saw an ogre rip off a guy's loincloth through a cloak, robe, and a pair of leggings. Because logic.

Ouch. Only in Dwarf Fortress...

[utunnels]

Marksdwarf sucks. If you want they to kill things, that is.

My stray war elephant was beaten up by a wereskink! All he could do was shaking like a little kitten.
Fortunately he was tough enough to stay alive so the wereskink changed back into a human and was killed by my military.

Oh how the mighty marksdwarf has fallen.

Yeah, when they don't headshot the target like the old days.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

I finally killed one, but it took a legendary woodcutter with a battle axe.  He chopped the elephant down while everyone else held it down.

You do know that Woodcutter has nothing to do with Axedwarf, right? Only Miner is the same for the military and civilian skills for weapon-using job. However, chopping down trees makes a dwarf strong, so that might have helped.

[Quartz_Mace]

I'd use spear dwarves if yu really want to kill a large animal. They can penitrate the thick hide, puncture organs, cause severe bleeding, and break bones! The hunters might be bad at killing, but paired with some adequate spear fighters, they will take one down pretty easily.