Bombard towers doing (literally) zero damage

[TCM Sarge]

Thought it was an oddly random glitch, but this is the third time this ♥♥♥♥ has happened now. Playing a skirmish with a friend vs. ai, and find that my bombard towers are doing ZERO damage to the enemy rams at my walls. Ballistics have been researched, and the rams aren't even moving, just sitting there tearing through my wall, yet the cannonballs make contact without dealing a single point of damage.

Only consistencies I can think of is my friend dc'd from this game, and could very well have dc'ed from the last two at some point, forcing us to reload the save file. Nothing else seems to be affected, just my bombard towers.

Please fix this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[-Dare Devil/x/]

-They should be doing 1 point of damage.

[Woudo]

What Civs were both of you playing? Did you have handicaps active?

[box]

Rams are balanced to counter bombard towers and have been so since AOC.

[TCM Sarge]

I was Malay, he was Portuguese, no handicaps.

Idk what you mean by "balanced to counter bombard towers", but dealing zero damage at random times is a glitch. 99% of the games we play, bombard towers take anywhere from 2-3 hits to kill a ram depending on upgrades. That is the norm.

[-Dare Devil/x/]

Originally posted by TCM Sarge:

I was Malay, he was Portuguese, no handicaps.

Idk what you mean by "balanced to counter bombard towers", but dealing zero damage at random times is a glitch. 99% of the games we play, bombard towers take anywhere from 2-3 hits to kill a ram depending on upgrades. That is the norm.

-Bombard towers are different than bombard canons. Towers do 1dmg to siege rams.

[Kampfschwein Fjonda]

Listen to more experienced players. Ram have high pierce armor. Bombard cannons deal melee damage. Bombard towers deal ranged damage. Do not argue with it.

[DesertRose92]

Bombard Towers used to do melee damage, just like Bombard Cannons, and thus countering Rams.
That was considered to be overpowered, as Rams are supposed to be able to deal with static defense. Nowadays (actually since Conquerors, so since ~2000) Bombard Towers deal pierce damage. As Rams have 180 / 190 / 195 pierce armor each cannon ball of Bombard Towers deal 1 damage.

[TCM Sarge]

That sounds absolutely bogus that a tower would deal less damage than a mobile cannon, but I'll take a look at some of the mods we've been trying out that may have altered any tower stats. But I'm still pretty sure it was dealing 0 damage, not 1

[DMg Halt]

the minimum damage should always be 1 damage. You can have a ram with 1 million pierce armor, and shoot it with a skirmisher and it should take 1 damage. If it doesn't take any, then something is wrong. If you have the recorded game, you should post it. Even better, if you can put instructions on how exactly to replicate this, im sure the development team will put it on their to-do list right away.

[DesertRose92]

Rams have 175 / 200 / 270 hitpoints. Especially if other units were fighting one as well it is easily possible to not notice that the health bar got reduced by one two-hundredths.

[TheDiaper]

LUL

[billytringuyen]

bombard tower don;lt kill ram in 2-3 hits lol

[Gorilianul]

Originally posted by Trush requires no skill:

LUL

was about to say this. There was an old saying that got me warned, but it basically said to Enhance your ability at playing this game by playing it repeatedly. It can be abbreviated with two letters by saying GG.