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

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:44:05AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> 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...

They could get one from sponsoring country. And transporter doesn't
have to be military ship. Any major oil-engined ship fits.
Also guerillas are often led by army general who doesn't agree with
government's policy (most often about choosing army officers), so
they have access to such technology.