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.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Check the strategy. If it's set to anything other than 'ram'; ie, 'optimal', 'point-blank', the AI will check for guns, find none, assume the ship is unarmed and get it out of danger.

[ExSentinel]

Do you need to have at least one direct fire weapon on the ship, or can you bypass that if you have the default strategy set to ram?

Thanks for the answer

[Parasite]

No, you do not need a weapon. It is also fairly common to set colony and other lone unarmed ships to this tactic to let them do maybe some damage before they die.

[ExSentinel]

Thanks for the info, that is what I was looking for.

[atari_eric]

Remember, use protection before ramming.

(jokes aside, your ship might survive the ram...)