Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Galleon attacking

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Smith (patsmith@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Should a unit with attack strength of 0 be allowed to attack?

No.  Please.

> I recently attacked a caravel with a galleon (which is silly, of
> course).  I expected to get a message such as "you can't attack there".
> Instead, the attack proceeded and the galleon died.

I used to do this all the time with Transports in Civ1.  (By accident,
of course.)  In Civ2, attempting to do something like this gives you a
dialog box explaining how silly you are, and you don't lose the unit.

> Is this normal (let people be silly if they want), or should we
> protect people from their own silliness?

I'd prefer to be protected.

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