[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12781) Create AI guard API

["Benoit Hudson" <bh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12781 >

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:30:45PM -0700, Benedict Adamson wrote:
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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12781 >
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> Jason Short wrote:
> ...
> > I think a guard should have multiple charges.  In an assault you want 
> > one guard per N assault units.  Like one musketeer for every two cannons 
> > or something.  Having more than one guard per tile isn't particularly 
> > helpful.
> ...
> 
> Multiple guards per tile is often worse than one guard per tile, because 
> the additional guards do not increase the chance of the defenders on the 
> tile winning a fight, but increase the amount destroyed if they are 
> defeated.

It's also often very good: if the probability of winning 1 fight is high
but that of winning n fights is low, you want n guards.  Basically my
strategy against the AI is to put 2 phalanxes on a hill/mountain against
his horses/chariots, but only 1 on plains/grassland (I suppose someone
can do the math to see what "high" and "low" are in my mind).

        -- Benoît