Re: [Freeciv-Dev] bug? bomber/artillery stack killed by riflemen

[Stephen Hodge <stephenh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 11:45:36AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > I had a stack of artillery sitting outside an enemy city, with a bomber
> > > on the same square as protection (oh, and a fortified cavalry too, just
> > > in case).  In Civ1, nothing could've attacked this square except a
> > > fighter.  But in Freeciv, I lost the whole stack to an enemy rifleman.
> 
> > Doesn't seem that strange to me.
> >
> > Bomber has defense 1, 20 hitpoints
> [...]
> 
> That's not the issue.  In Civ1, the rifleman would not have been able to
> attack my stack of units at all.  The presence of a bomber in that square
> meant that only a fighter could attack that square.  (I'm not sure whether
> it would have fought the bomber or one of the other defenders.)

Same situation in Civ2. Pg 106 under Air Battles states "...Bombers and
Stealth Bombers prevent enemy units (other than Fighters and Stealth
Fighters) from even entering, much less attacking the square they
occupy.

Regards,
Steve Hodge