[Freeciv] Re: Cannons attacking ships?

[Britton <fsblk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Ross Wetmore wrote:
>
> > I think you got it backwards ...
> >
> > Historically land based cannons were almost useless against ships unless
> > guarding a narrow waterway like a river. The range is just inadequate.
> >
> > Historically ships were always used to blockade ports without fear of
> > any attack from the land.
> >
> > A useful technique would be to let cannon use their *attack* factor
> > when defending and fortified. When defending, the attacker has come
> > within range.
>
> This would render any attacker useless against a fortified cannon, which
> is not right.

It would be different from current game mechanics, but not less realistic.
The practice of beating down enemy cities from ironclads is the weird idea
really.  Giving cannons some more defensive fire against ships would make
invasions require more land units.  Coastal defenses are prohibitively
expensive for this early on, considering that they have no other use.

Britton

>
> I think cannons defending city from ships is almost adequately reflected
> in the Coastal Defence bonuses and cannons defending city from land attackers
> is more than adequtely compensated by City Wall bonuses.
>
> So instead of the below option you should consider making Coastal bonuses
> a bit larger.
>
> > This had better be implemented with an option, and it defaulted to *off*.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > RossW
> > =====
> >
> > Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > I keep getting the crap totally beaten out of me by enemy ships and I was
> > > wondering why cannons are not allowed attackin ships?  Even if the ship
> > > had to be right beside the cannon it would still be pretty useful, and
> > > historically cannons were used for this purpose.
> > >
> > > Sincerely
> > >
> > > Alan Horkan
> > > http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
> >
> >
> >
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