[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Alternative nation dialog

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

The Mongol horse archers, in fact quite a few other horse archers as well, had
two bows. One was for riding horseback and was a short recurved bow. The other
was a big siege bow for dismounted use. So the archer based on warrior code is
historically correct.



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