[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4785) disappearing archers

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jorneg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> En/na Jason Short ha escrit:
> 
> 
>>I walked up with a settlers next to an enemy's cannon.  So I brought up 
>>the bodyguard: two units of archers.  Things now looked like:
>>
>>    CA
>>   AS
>>
>>and I had no MP left.  So I set both units of archers on "goto" toward 
>>the cannon, to see if I could attack first (which sometimes happens 
>>since the end-of-turn order is buggy).
>>
>>At the end of the turn I got the message "Settlers lost to an attack by 
>>xxx's cannon near yyy".  And both units of archers were just gone. 
>>There was no message, and no legitimate reason I can tell for their 
>>disappearance (their homecity wasn't conquered or anything like that).
>>
>>Not reproducable.
>>
> 
>     What has happen is that the two archers attacked the cannon and 
> loose the combat. And then, the cannon attacked and killed the settler.
> 
>     And you have reason, there should be a message like in normal combat.

You're saying there's a missing message?

Even so I find it hard to believe; either one of the settlers should 
have easily defeated the cannon.

jason