[Freeciv] Re: Dirigible

["Arturo Espinosa-Aldama" <arturoea@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: kilobug@xxxxxxxxxxx (Gaël Le Mignot)
>To: "Arturo Espinosa-Aldama" <arturoea@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: tarini@xxxxxxxxxxx,  freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Freeciv] Re: Dirigible
>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:46:07 +0200
>
>Hello Arturo!
>
>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:02:10 -0500, you wrote:
>
>  > An archer attacking and destroying a dirigible sounds hiloudricous,
>  > maybe  we could give the  dirigible some good  defense points? That
>  > would  be another plus  and would reflect  the fact that it  is not
>  > that easy to hit something  that is three hundred meters above you,
>  > even  if it is  as big  as a dirigible  (a matter of  distance, not
>  >  size) --  specially when  the only  thing you  have at  hand  is a
>  > spear. Then  if you get to destroy the  dirigible with you phalanx,
>  > well, it would turn out Achilles DID exist!
>
>Well,  you  already  can  detroy  a  bomber or  a  fighter  with  some
>phalanx...  Put  a fortified phalanx in  a fort on a  mountain, and if
>someone attacks  you with a fighter,  the fight will lose,  and even a
>bomber will be damaged.

Which is not realistic at all either. But I agree with the idea of units 
being able to attack the dirigible... just set the defense points high so it 
is not that easy to bring down.

Arturo

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