Lighting up a siege ram...Part Deux

[TevashSzat]

Carl is probably right, but i think that rams and siege equipment in general just catches fire more often than RTW when I am fighting the siege that is, attacking a city

[nikolai1962]

Same here, I don't think I've ever destroyed a ram with archers in M2TW

Had some success with this myself. But i take them all off fire at will and target them individually on the ram. Might have just been luck though.

[Durallan]

I've been playing Denmark and don't get mortars. However I do get Cannons and even just 1 unit of cannons can take out a cannon tower in 1 round. :D however cannon towers just are not as accurate as ballista towers and with the Timurids arrival I have had Antioch Baghdad Jerusalem and Cairo and Alexander fitted out with ballista towers after one of my citadels that had ballista towers was sieged. All I had defending it was 3 units of Norse Archers (great for defending the walls of any city as they have 11 melee and 7 missle attack, not so great in open combat however, get cut down very quickly if in hand to hand combat) The ballista towers unleashed flaming destruction upon the ram when I made all my archers target it, and it was set alight shortly after. unfortunately the enemies siege tower reached the wall, but I set my 3 norse archers infront of it and I managed to hold off a force larger than my own, the only problem I have had is once the Sicilians sieged me once, but the citadel had cannon towers and the ram survived easily, and my archers fell back to the secondary walls, but the computer was acting strangely and wasn't moving so after an hour of waiting and trying to kill as many as possible I ran out of arrows and had to surrender the citadel :(
I'm still waiting for the Timurids to attack me, right now theyre still messing aorund in the northern part of Turkey, costing me 50k silver florins a turn to support the armies in those cities but I bet you as soon as I disbanded them the Timurids would head straight here!