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OK, I'm glad to know this won't work, rather than continuing to accidentally break the rules.

As for the case with destroying the boat, our GM decides things by what would make sense with what's actually happening for things like that. Dropping a 6000 pound piece of rock from 200 feet above a ship and dealing as much damage as the Paladin would from hitting it a few times makes a lot less sense than the elemental crushing the ship under it, so we went with that.

Ironically, this wasn't even the worst break of the rules involving falling Elementals. The cult we did it on did it back to us, but instead of dropping a single Earth Elemental on a ship they dropped several dozen Earth and Fire Elementals on most of the city we were in.
Because we don't go back and retcon stuff, I guess this one is going back into Pandora's Box.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

Hello, anyone reading this. I'll get straight to my question-I've got no idea how to open a thread.

Ahem.

In my Pathfinder group, our party, consisting of a Cleric, Paladin and Summoner at the time, all level 9, was in a medium sized fishing boat, being pursued by two warships. Because our Wizard wasn't at the session, we were short on any effective ways to kill our pursuers, evil cultists we had been harassed by in the past. My character, the Paladin, had an idea; he would fly the Summoner over the cult ships, and the Summoner would create a large Earth elemental over each ship, which would drop and crush the ships.

We came under too heavy an attack to destroy the second ship, but the first was crushed effectively. My question regards the logical extrapolation of this sort of attack.

Would a high-level Wizard and Summoner team be able to summon an Elder Earth Elemental at high altitude, allow it to drop for several seconds, teleport it several thousand feet back in the air, and repeat until it has reached terminal velocity, and then drop it on a target?

Essentially, I want to know whether there are any rules being broken by this. The whole tactic would revolve around velocity being retained between teleportations. Would it?

Additionally, although this goes somewhat beyond the scope of Pathfinder, how much force would an Elder Earth Elemental impact the ground with at terminal velocity, and what sort of effect would this have upon something beneath or in a 250' radius of the impact?

Thanks for reading/answering.