Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Freeciv suggestions

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Robert Thomson wrote:

> Also military units should be able to move off a ship directly into an
> empty city. Why wouldn't they be able to in real life?

I actually like the current system.  The idea seems pretty 
reasonable: ground units cannot attack (or defend) until 
they disembark, and they can't disembark into a hostile city.
Plus this rule makes Marines more useful.  

> One way to do this would be to let any military unit attack a city
> directly from boats, but to signify their vulnerability in landing,
> non-marines could have their attack values reduced to 1 for the move.
> Thus attacking a defended city with catapults from a
> boat would be possible, but stupid.

Um, maybe I don't understand, but why go to the trouble to 
implement something which would mostly be pretty stupid for 
a player to do?  :-)

-- David