Battering Rams

[KillSlim]

How do you use them? I've created a formation with some warriors, and they're next to an enemy city, but how do I use them to attack?

[Cyprus Hillbilly]

Support units, such as the Battering Ram or the Siege Tower cannot initiate attacks, but they help other units they are grouped with . If attacked while on their own, they are destroyed . A city may attack an enemy military unit that is within the city’s Ranged Combat Range and a combat unit may in turn attack an enemy city .

[CrazyVulcan]

The ram is used for knocking down wall to zero health. Group with a warrior and have him mealy attack the city. You will notice that the wall health bar goes down considerably faster then if you attacked with just the warrior.

[zxcvbob]

When can you no longer build rams? I can't find anything about when they go obsolete.

[Krinkov]

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

When can you no longer build rams? I can't find anything about when they go obsolete.

I believe when you get civil engineering in the civics tree. This also makes walls obsolete as it grants the ability to bombard and fortifications to all your cities.

[Homeboy32]

I have the same question. Does the ram need to be "linked" with another unit? Does the ram need to just occupy the same tile as a melee unit? Or do all melee units get bonus if siege tower/ram is only next to the city. Asked this question many times with no answer.

[CivNut123]

It should be in formation with another unit, otherwise it is easily captured (duh). I think it just has to be next to a city, though.

They are very useful units. Even in the age of musketmen, I use siege towers.

[zxcvbob]

Originally posted by Krinkov:

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

When can you no longer build rams? I can't find anything about when they go obsolete.

I believe when you get civil engineering in the civics tree. This also makes walls obsolete as it grants the ability to bombard and fortifications to all your cities.

Thanks. I noticed that late-settled cities seem to have fortifications w/o my having to build them. Do rams and siege towers work against modern cities?

[CivNut123]

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

Originally posted by Krinkov:

I believe when you get civil engineering in the civics tree. This also makes walls obsolete as it grants the ability to bombard and fortifications to all your cities.

Thanks. I noticed that late-settled cities seem to have fortifications w/o my having to build them. Do rams and siege towers work against modern cities?

Yes, they work against modern cities as well, if they have fortifications. I may have to verify that statement, though. :) Typically though you would use bombard units or ranged units against heavily fortified cites, though. There may be a tech that invalidates them. There really should be.

[zxcvbob]

I was using 2 machine gun corps, artillery, and an infantry corps against an atomic era encampment and wasn't doing much damage (not even with the artillery.) I had more units on the way, but they were still several turns out. I think the fortification strength was 67. I thought a battering ram might let my infantry corp tear down the walls. The AI was targeting my artillery and machine guns. I pillaged everything in sight and took a peace deal before my units got killed.

I had been playing a peaceful game, and the AI (Gandhi) declared war on me. I never did figure out why.

I haven't used airplanes in Civ6 yet, I should check that out. Bombers might do better than artillery.

[CivNut123]

Originally posted by zxcvbob:

I was using 2 machine gun corps, artillery, and an infantry corps against an atomic era encampment and wasn't doing much damage (not even with the artillery.) I had more units on the way, but they were still several turns out. I think the fortification strength was 67. I thought a battering ram might let my infantry corp tear down the walls. The AI was targeting my artillery and machine guns. I pillaged everything in sight and took a peace deal before my units got killed.

I had been playing a peaceful game, and the AI (Gandhi) declared war on me. I never did figure out why.

I haven't used airplanes in Civ6 yet, I should check that out. Bombers might do better than artillery.

City strength makes a big difference. Once it gets high enough, it becomes very difficult to take a city. Also, siege towers are better.

Yes, a bomber would make it easier. It's a bombard unit, like artillery.