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Battering Ram
Description
Ancient era support unit. When adjacent to a city, attacking melee and anti-cavalry units do full damage to the city’s Walls. Does not affect cities with Medieval or Renaissance Walls. Ineffective against Urban Defenses.
Historical Context
As the walls protecting towns got higher and thicker, so too did the gates. Eventually, it wasn’t enough to have a bunch of expendables hammering away at the gate carrying a thick pole. In its simplest form, a battering ram is a heavy log suspended from a framework that can be swung against walls and gates, eventually – theoretically – knocking them down. Over time, the ends were capped with metal, wheels were added for mobility, and coverings protected the users from boiling oil, rocks, arrows and other discomforts. So useful were battering rams that, if they couldn’t be constructed from materials nearby, ancient armies would drag them along on campaigns. Pliny the Elder even described their use in mining for breaking down hard rock (although a bunch of slaves with picks was a lot cheaper). Battering rams were used right through the Middle Ages, until the advent of gunpowder brought cannons into the art of war.
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Traits

Upgrades To
Made obsolete by
Promotion Class: Support

Requirements

Technology
Production Cost
Base Cost: 65 Production
Purchase Cost
Base Cost: 260 Gold
Maintenance Cost
Base Cost: 1 Gold
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Description
Ancient era support unit. When adjacent to a city, attacking melee and anti-cavalry units do full damage to the city’s Walls. Does not affect cities with Medieval or Renaissance Walls. Ineffective against Urban Defenses.
Historical Context
As the walls protecting towns got higher and thicker, so too did the gates. Eventually, it wasn’t enough to have a bunch of expendables hammering away at the gate carrying a thick pole. In its simplest form, a battering ram is a heavy log suspended from a framework that can be swung against walls and gates, eventually – theoretically – knocking them down. Over time, the ends were capped with metal, wheels were added for mobility, and coverings protected the users from boiling oil, rocks, arrows and other discomforts. So useful were battering rams that, if they couldn’t be constructed from materials nearby, ancient armies would drag them along on campaigns. Pliny the Elder even described their use in mining for breaking down hard rock (although a bunch of slaves with picks was a lot cheaper). Battering rams were used right through the Middle Ages, until the advent of gunpowder brought cannons into the art of war.

Traits

Upgrades To
Made obsolete by
Promotion Class: Support

Requirements

Technology
Production Cost
Base Cost: 65 Production
Purchase Cost
Base Cost: 260 Gold
Maintenance Cost
Base Cost: 1 Gold