[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:

> 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.

Build the Ghengis Khan's Art of War Wonder, sometimes attributed to Sun
Tzu?

A Horse Archer unit does make sense though, there were such critters. I
had the impression that the "archer" based on Warrior Code may be meant to
represent the English and Japanese Longbowmen rather than normal small
bows but they could represent composite bows too thus be OK for Horse
Archers. Or, you could separate Longbowmen from Composite Bow thus
allowing only the Composite to lead to Horse Archers. Although Samurai do
seem to use longbow from horseback, they could possibly be regarded as a
form of Knights.

BB
MM

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