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

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Friday, 18 August 2000 12:46 AM +0200 Stepan Roh 
<sroh7497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[not killing stacks of units]
> I don't think so (to implement it as a server option) because it strongly
> affects gameplay. This makes attack much more easier, you don't need to
> defense your attacking forces with strong defenders, which makes them
> obsolete. Civilisation was made with killstack in mind.
You still need defenders, so that you can move in a slow, defense-weak 
attacker without having it be destroyed (or at least not be destroyed as 
easily) before it can attack.  Using another attack unit as a sacrificial 
defender because its destruction won't kill the other units is IMHO a bad 
idea even if you could do it, since the attacker will almost certainly 
survive, and if you're next to a city with a lot of units you can still 
lose everything in one turn.
But my thought on killstack is that it's kind of a tradeoff: if you stack 
units, you can use strong defenders to protect more vulnerable units and 
you can be safe from unit bribing, but in return you run the risk that 
you'll lose all of the units in one attack.
--Jed