I fight the elephant at its great range by using T34/76s usually. If its a team game arty away all its defenses. Its a silly area denial gimmick IMHO.
You lose a tank to the Ele you know where the ele is camping because its slow you mosey on over there with a Pack of Tanks (its slow ROF means it cant kill them ALL) and you circle strafe the ele for about the next 5 mins until the damn massive HPs are depleted.
Sheesh Ele is easy mode at least in 2v2 maybe not in 4v4.....
Wtf? where is the german support? sleeping while you circle strafe the elef?