Rams - how to destroy them early?

[ShadeMaid]

Hi everyone

So lets get to the core, if you scout a city and realise the guy has like 50k+ rams - all in striking distance from you- how do you get rid of them before he sends them off??

We're talking late game here so all techs are maxed on both sides
walls are maxed with ATs maybe a few traps/abatis

suggestions to killing these buggers?
and what do we do if there is a bunch of archers and rainbow troops in front?

Is sb's the way to go?

Let me hear thoughts on this matter

- yeah ok, just realised I might have put it the wrong place, but now it's here, so dont bug me with it, I know I screwed up :P

[neko_lord]

Hi everyone

So lets get to the core, if you scout a city and realise the guy has like 50k+ rams - all in striking distance from you- how do you get rid of them before he sends them off??

We're talking late game here so all techs are maxed on both sides
walls are maxed with ATs maybe a few traps/abatis

suggestions to killing these buggers?
and what do we do if there is a bunch of archers and rainbow troops in front?

Is sb's the way to go?

Let me hear thoughts on this matter

- yeah ok, just realised I might have put it the wrong place, but now it's here, so dont bug me with it, I know I screwed up :P

Read Darkbrady's guide. Key Issues on Combat Mechanics.

Nutshell: Raams (his misspelling of rams, at least he's consistent) will get torn apart if the city has large numbers of towers remaining. Rams are pretty much only useful when the towers are no longer part of the equation. As it stands, they are consuming a lot of food. Read through the guide. It should give you some help if you want to attack, but all you need to do to defend is keep your towers up.

[poiuytrewq]

Uh uh.
Layers and 5.2k range do more to defend than towers.

[jason_mazzy]

farm all his npc's nonstop. he will starve

[wozuka]

farm all his npc's nonstop. he will starve

if the guy has more than one city and can out produce lets say 100k ram army that is only - 10 million an hour so that = 240m food a day. hitting 10 level 10's a day = 190 million food only leaving you with a shortage of 50 million even if you have a lot of other troops there to defend the rams its not too hard to feed rams the idea that you can starve someone out is long long past.

I don't know how you all set up your ram city but mine holds a ton of archers scouts and warriors to farm them level 10's then i ship in 100 million food to it per day.. Which is not hard if all my citys have a nice farm set up already.

when there is a will there is a way. The hardest part of building rams is losing more than half of them when attacking and the amount of lumber it takes to make them.... its OMG what the heck destory the entire forest why don't you amount of lumber consumtion.

go ahead and use that tip if you want to build rams it works well. Knowing how to feed them is a part of the joy of using them against your enemy and watching them **** their pants...

Muuhahahaaaa

Wozuka

[wozuka]

oh but defeating them i find that a large number of melee troops does nicely.

[Jacob]

get a high attack hero. rams are good only because they have so much life, earlier in the game most heros are so low, archers barely do any damage to them. later on in the game, 125k archers+rainbow can kill 100k rams if they both have 500+ atk heros, due to the archers will take the rams out in signifigantly less rounds(before the rams even reach the archers).

[Benignob]

You could use maybe 30-50k ballistas to defeat him.
As long as you have enough food for them.

[Kiki.]

Actually, all you need is traps and abatis. A small amount of meat and about 250k archers.

Not my report unfortunately

[Slay]

Nice KIKI