Re: [spam 06.86/10.00 -pobox] Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Galleon attacking

[Patrick Smith <patsmith@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Should a unit with attack strength of 0 be allowed to attack?
> >
> > No.  Please.
> 
> Ships can attack each other.  I use this myself and I've seen others
> use it.  But I recently found I could use a caravel to attack a
> chariot - and win.   Is this supposed to be a bug?

The problem isn't that a galleon is a ship.  The problem is that its
attack strength is 0.  A caravel, on the other hand, has a non-0
attack strength.


> > > I recently attacked a caravel with a galleon (which is silly, of
> > > course).
> 
> Why? 0 vs 0 ought to give 50% chance.

The caravel's defense strength is 1.  So it's not "0 vs 0", it's 0 vs 1,
and the galleon will _always_ die.

Pat
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