[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion / idea

[dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I was just thinking about the whole ships and city walls...
A ship would ignore a city wall to... If my idea of what the ships are is
right, a large number of cannons (and very big cannons at that), a
city wall or even a fortress would not be much use. That is why there
is a costal defense upgrade. With a few costal defenses placed in cities 
with a few musketeer, ships are not nearly as powerful,  a
few musketeers can stop a very large number of ironclads (can't they K =))
and they cost less.... The only problem is that is takes metallurgy to
build a costal defense upgrade....

I think Ships should ignore City walls really. That would match up with
histroy... ships have always been used to pummel a cities.

p.s. An AEGIS Cruiser is one of those cruiser that were used in WWII
That had massive amounts of Rockets yes? Shouldn't they have a slightly
larger attack... they were used for destroying entire cites weren't they?

p.s.s. What does AEGIS stand for? =)
Darth bob



On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Greg Wooledge (wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > Civ2, p. 56: "A city's defense can be substantially increased by building
> > City Walls, an improvement that triples any defender's strength against
> > most attackers (although not against Howitzers or air units)."
> 
> > If I find time I might try Civ2 again...
> 
> Ships in Civ2 (at least Ironclads, Destroyers and Cruisers) appear
> to ignore city walls.  I can't prove it, but I did quite a bit of
> "Ironcladding" today (err... yesterday...) and I'm convinced that it's
> true. ;-)
> 
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