Talk:Bombard Tower/@comment-92.73.192.13-20170201073232/@comment-27198062-20170201134633

back in the age of kings days, bombard towers flattened rams in 2-3 shots, which basically meant that only bombard cannon and trebuchets were effective against them. bombard cannon was only available to 7 civilisations, while it was very tedious to pack and unpack trebuchets for every scattered bombard tower, so the change to pierce damage was made, so that bombard towers are ineffective against rams (which have very high pierce armor), to give them a more fleshed out (and less specialized) counter.