[Freeciv] Re: Attacking problems

[Michael Mielke <michael@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Salute,
> I have a small problem: I'd like to know how the game counts the attack
> points of a unit.
> for example: a legion (4 attackpoints) attacks two of my phalanx
> (defense: 2 each) and it seems to me that he's killing both in one turn.
> Is that thought so? 

The docs say that it has random hits on the unit, meaning that the more
points you have on the unit, the greater chance of survival ... it doesn't
necessarily mean that you will win an attack over just attacking with more
points than the enemy unit.