Battering Ram line
Batters buildings; helpless against melee units.
Battering RamCovered RamGreat Ram
Battering Ram
Batters buildings; helpless against melee units.
- Age
- Stronghold Age
- Cost
- 250 wood100 gold
- Training time
- 40 s
- Health
- 370
- Population
- 3
- Attack
- 120 siege, every 4 s
- Range
- 0.5
- Hits
- buildings only
- Armour
- 0 melee, 40 pierce
- Speed
- 1.25
- Sight
- 6
Britons
Franks
Chinese
Mongols
Upgrade from the Battering Ram at the Siege Workshop in the Dominion Age: 300 food, 50 s
Covered Ram
Battering Ram line, Dominion Age upgrade: a hide-and-iron roof and a heavier head; still helpless against melee units.
- Age
- Dominion Age
- Cost
- 250 wood100 gold
- Training time
- 40 s
- Health
- 450
- Population
- 3
- Attack
- 130 siege, every 4 s
- Range
- 0.5
- Hits
- buildings only
- Armour
- 0 melee, 45 pierce
- Speed
- 1.25
- Sight
- 6
- Britons
- Franks
- Chinese
- Mongols
Upgrade from the Covered Ram at the Siege Workshop in the Dominion Age: 1000 food, 75 s, after Covered Ram
Great Ram
Ram line, last grade: an iron-shod beam under a heavy roof, the surest way through a gate. Chinese and Mongols.
- Age
- Dominion Age
- Cost
- 250 wood100 gold
- Training time
- 40 s
- Health
- 540
- Population
- 3
- Attack
- 165 siege, every 4 s
- Range
- 0.5
- Hits
- buildings only
- Armour
- 0 melee, 50 pierce
- Speed
- 1.35
- Sight
- 6
- Britons (not available)
- Franks (not available)
- Chinese
- Mongols
Strong against
- Buildings. Siege engines bring buildings down; infantry does it slowly.
Weak against
- Scout Rider line, Knight line, Camel Rider line, Steppe Spearman line, Fire-Lance Rider line, Militia line, Francisca Thrower, Springald line (somewhat), Bombard (somewhat). Riders and swords smash siege engines; bolt throwers and cannon pick them off.
Technologies that change it
- Field Drill Castle, Dominion Age, Mongols only
- Siege Wrights University, Dominion Age