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To: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>, Freeciv developers <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog
From: Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 23:03:23 -0800 (PST)

--- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:06:34PM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> > No, not quite. The concepts of horse riding, archery and warrior code were
> > known to the all the civs the mongols conquered. In Civ terms, all the civs
> > they defeated were at equal or higher tech level. Yes, you in the back, the
> > mongols
> > absorbed the tech of everyone they beat. They used chinese catapaults, arab
> > horses and camels etc.
> 
> True, but to the Mongols it was all they had, so they perfected its use.
> This is not really in Freeciv.
> 

True, the mongols were better at horseriding, better at archery, better at
moving fast and hitting what they were shooting at then the decadent soft
civlised types.

How can that be modelled in Freeciv? The only thing that comes to mind is a
better attack unit that comes with horseriding and warrior code.

> -- 
> Reinier
> 


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