[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Civ2 Ruleset Elephants Mounted

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

CAN EROGUL <canerogul@xxxxxxxxx>:
>   Elephants in the civ2 ruleset are not mounted units.
> It does not have the "HORSE" flag (in
> data/civ2/units.ruleset). I guess that is the flag
> which makes a unit mounted. I think it should be a
> mounted unit, pikemen should have bonus against
> elephants. 
>   I am not sure how it was in civ2, but this seems to
> be the logical way.

Agreed.  Elephants are smarter than horses, too smart to charge
straight onto long sharp things.  Historically elephants were great
for scattering light infantry and untrained levies, but trained 
heavy infantry generally made short work of them.

> ps: I think I should post this to data list, but it
> does not seem to be an active list, so I posted here.

I'm the new data maintainer, and I watch that list.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>