Re: Dirigible

nicholas.g.lawrence-q/[email protected]
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.general
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>jason
>There's a reason ground troops and equipment are carried on ships and
>not planes.  A fleet of transport aircraft should be able to carry at
>most 1 unit.

nick
I thought the reason ships were favoured was because it
is possible to park a ship "just off the coast" so that
you can land a bunch of ground troops (marines!) in just
one move. Sometimes the threat value alone is enough.

You can't park a cargo plane off the coast, but you
can park a dirigible.



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