CEP 3.3.4 Battering ram

[alluton]

Battering ram has +300% against cities promotion but combat calculation only shows it having +50% against cities.

 

[stackpointer]

I believe the plan for battering rams was to lower the bonus vs cities but raise their base strength (13) so they don't get one-shot by cities anymore. However, after all the math is said and done, their effective strength vs cities is around 20 in CEP while in vanilla BNW it was 40.

 

[mystikx21]

In GEM the implementation was to negate the defence penalty they get, and give them a higher bonus versus cities than catapults (+200% vs +50%) but lower than default and have it also apply on defence so they are harder to kill with just cities and archers.

The base strength shouldn't be much different. (maybe 11-12 instead of 10). It should come out around 33 or so on attack but much harder to kill.