Unarmed ships can't ram?

[Randallw]

I don't think so. I just ran a test and my unarmed scout headed straight for the victim. however there are a few things to consider.

1. You said you gave a fleet the orders. Well within the strategies, even ram, transports and other sorts of ship are by default set to break formation. So they may forget about fleet orders and revert to the ships default.

2. The shiptype must be set to ram. I tried fleet orders of ram while the ship default was optimal and it wasn't interested in ramming.

I make use, in some games, of a ship strategy to ram when it's lost its weapons and it works.