Step by Step: How to get your ships to ram?

[ExSentinel]

I have a partner in a simultaneous game who is trying to set up ramming ships; however everytime his ships go into battle they run to the corner of the map. I have looked at them in the simulator (I know, not worth a hill of beans) and the ships seem to work fine.

I do not use, nor have never used the tactic so I do not know what to tell him. The only thing that I have noticed on the design is that he only has warheads and no direct fire weapons. Are direct fire weapons really necessary, if they are not, what does he need to do to get these ships to work in a simultaneous game? Any help would be greatly appreciated.