Rams attack to reduce defenses and use the Breakdown system and have promotions to improve that. They don't bombard city defenses from a distance - they must attack to have a chance every round of combat to reduce defenses and they CAN take down quite a bit before they die or withdraw.
Some few units can bombard city defenses themselves to a small degree during that time. It's not until catapult technologies open up that it becomes easier to sit back and blast the walls usually.
"Breakdown" confused me a lot - as in, what the heck does it do?
So it's basically the same "reduce defense", but also "at the risk of damage to the unit".
Right, damn.
Lol!
As of Blitz, it's rather high in the tech tree (Military Science, ugh), whereas Mounted units having so many move points looks like a waste, if they can't Multi-Attack.
Sure, that's just me liking Superman Units, lol, but...
Also, there's Attrition (in XML) that is called Raider (in Pedia), which requires Dummy_Tech and is probably unavailable in a normal way.
Raider 3 gives Blitz, too - and specifically to Mounted (and Melee).
But, lol, it's unattainable, or so it seems.
Especially with having different names between XML and Pedia in the first place.
I *really* would advice the team to look through ALL promotions and organize them in a better way.
I'm pretty sure there are more errors there that get overlooked.
Yeah...
