Re: Cannons attacking ships?
"jianfei chen" <[email protected]>
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Historically, the cannons that were mounted on forts and costal walls were generally the largest, not having to be moved around at all. Having said this, I would think that the costal fortress improvement in the cities already give this benifit. The cannon units that could be moved most certainly have to be smaller and quite helpless against sea bonbardment. However the current situation is in my opinion rather unrealistic and make the game rather wierd. Shorter ranged cannons would still be useful in defence as they will prevent the enemies from closing in and thus cause sea vessels to have lower accuracy. Moreover, frigates and ironclads usually appear before anyone has even invented gunpowder, making their high attack powers seem rather silly. Before the advent of cruise missiles, naval powers were not the vital integrent in taking over other nations. However, in freeciv, the entire extent of an attacking land force is usually consisted of a few lowly regular(not veteran) horsemen. These same relics are then used for many centuries - despite being completely obsolete and the availability of gunpowder armed dragons - until the appearance of the alphin troops. To solve these 'problems', I would thus rather suggest what is used in CIV III; that gunboats and siege weapons gain the bombard option instead of beingable to attack. Perhaps a succesful bombardment should take out half of the remaining hitpoints of the target, similar to a sabotage attack by spies (however, without risk of being captured and having the ability to attack stacked units). - Jian ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Per I. Mathisen" To: freeciv-0/[email protected] Subject: [Freeciv] Re: Cannons attacking ships? Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 20:31:06 +0000 (GMT) On Thu, 1 May 2003, Britton wrote: Not at all. Research the origins of the word "gunboat diplomacy". Ships carry waybigger guns than those you normally transport around on the ground using wheels, and can hence shoot at the latter from a safe distance. - Per ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your PC - Click here[1] for McAfee.com VirusScan Online --- Links --- 1 http://g.msn.com/8HMJEN/2755