[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestion: boat attack

[Karsten Held <Karsten.Held@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In Civ2, when a ship attacks and takes damage, its remaining movement
> points are recomputed based on its new hit points.  Freeciv does not
> do this.
> 
> (E.g., in Civ2, when I attack a city with a Cruiser that has 4 MP left,
> I might take enough damage that I have 0 MP left after the attack (though
> 1-2 is more typical).  In Freeciv, no matter how much damage it takes,
> the Cruiser will always have 3 MP left after the attack.)

I never played Civ2 but this appears to result in a somewhat better balance 
between sea and ground troops. Since Freeciv aims to clone Civ2, I think 
Freeciv 
should work this way, too. 

Do you know, how the remaining movement points are recomputed in Civ2?
Reasonably would be 
(original movement points - movement points done including attack) 
  * movement points with new damage/ original movement points

One disadvantage of this solution is that Magellan's expedition becomes 
even more powerful and probably THE essential wonder on gen 2. At least
in a variant form, Magellan's expedition should only allow to have more 
moves not more attacks, e.g., by not allowing to use the last two moves
to attack if you have Magellan's (similar for Lighthouse). Is there 
anything on this in Civ2?



Karsten