[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] New option in server.

[Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stepan Roh (sroh7497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nicolas Brunel wrote:

> > > I would suggest "killstack", or maybe "killsquare" or "killtile",
> > > (compare existing option "killcitizen"; a "stack" being a group 
> > > of units on the same square).

> > It's a civ1 and civ2 rule. Rules should be put in ruleset.

> > Another point, with this rule (option), fortress are useless and it would
> > better to disallow their use.

Not entirely; you still get a defense multiplier for being inside a
fortress.

> There was a materials thread which metamorphed into Colonisation off-topic
> (I think). If someone wants to implement Colonization rules, one of them
> is disabling killstack. So it should be a rule.

Also, in Alpha Centauri, there's a variant rule.  When you attack a
tile with multiple units and kill the defender, the other units in the
stack take "collateral damage" (something like 1-4 hit points randomly;
possibly less if the unit is armored, possibly more for units with more
than 10 hit points).

There are other rules, too, and I don't have a complete grasp of them
all -- but one case I do know is this: when you have a tile with a single
military unit and one or more non-military units, if the military unit
is killed, all the non-military units are killed too.

So, if we're going to support all of Civ2/Colonization/SMAC then we'll
need at least three different settings for this.

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