[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Big barbarian bug....

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 dnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> And one minorish problem, it seems alittle strange that the barbarians
> rocks up in a caravel and starts unloading marines.Shouldn't that be a
> transport?

It is a bit strange, yes.

Don't know if a transport would make more sense.  If we think of
latter-day barbarians as 'guerillas' or 'terrorists' or something, then
it's moderately plausible that they could steal/buy some modern guns (and
hence being 'marines' is not totally unreasonable) but it is probably
unlikely that they could steal a troop transport...

Under PayCiv (I never had civ II) I don't remember seeing anything more
advanced that about riflemen from a barbarian boat though.

jules
 
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