Re: Cannons attacking ships?

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Mike Kaufman wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 04:33:32PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > I
> keep getting the crap totally beaten out of me by enemy ships and I
> was > wondering why cannons are not allowed attacking ships?  Even if
> the ship > had to be right beside the cannon it would still be pretty
> useful, and > historically cannons were used for this purpose.

> there is an artillery patch which does this, and it's my fault since I own
> this ticket. Maybe I should get in gear and apply it.

sweet

for anyone else who might be interested i think this is the relevant
ticker
http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2292

I think it might need some restrictions to make it fairer (reduced attack
value?), but I am sure a bit of playtesting will help us figure out how
best to do it.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/