From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>
To: "Henry J. Cobb" <hcobb@io.com>
Cc: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Just say no to bungee paratroopers.
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40E74108.2070106@phy.cmich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2465.68.126.82.218.1088896685.squirrel@webmail.io.com>
Henry J. Cobb wrote:
> I've gotten rather tired of the bungee paratrooper trick of having a
> bomber fly around somebody's coastline capturing towns with the same
> infantry unit over and over again
I assume you're referring to the Standard game.
>so I wrote a patch that applies two
> rules:
>
> If you capture something and you can fit inside it then you move in as
> part of the capture.
I am not sure that this would be desired behavior in all cases, but for
want of a good counterexample, your proposal does sound fairly reasonable.
> If you attempt to capture something from inside a transport and you fail
> then you drop out on the ground or sea under the transport as you're
> pushed back.
I don't know about this. Consider troops attempting a capture from a
helicopter unit; they ought to be able to return to the helicopters if
the capture fails....
Regards,
Eric
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-07-03 23:21 ` Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-03 23:55 ` Eric McDonald [this message]
2004-07-04 0:55 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-04 1:39 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-04 3:17 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-04 1:14 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-07-04 3:37 ` Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-04 6:13 ` Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-04 15:13 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-04 18:01 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-07-04 21:38 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-04 21:57 ` mskala
2004-07-05 3:30 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-09 1:17 ` Henry J. Cobb
[not found] ` <40EDFCDE.9000902@phy.cmich.edu>
2004-07-09 3:37 ` Henry J. Cobb
[not found] ` <40EEAD66.50109@phy.cmich.edu>
2004-07-09 16:02 ` Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-09 16:10 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-10 4:38 ` Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-12 1:25 ` Carrier groups Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-12 3:27 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-12 7:00 ` Henry J. Cobb
2004-07-09 16:47 ` Just say no to bungee paratroopers Jim Kingdon
2004-07-09 16:54 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-07-09 17:00 ` Wrecking Issues Elijah Meeks
2004-07-09 17:16 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-10 21:40 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-09 17:45 ` AI Help Elijah Meeks
2004-07-09 18:15 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-09 18:26 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-09 19:03 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-07-09 19:45 ` Side Selection Bugs Elijah Meeks
2004-07-09 19:46 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-11 1:47 ` AWLS: Korea 2006 Eric McDonald
2004-07-11 4:16 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-07-13 2:40 ` More Feedback on " Eric McDonald
2004-07-13 3:48 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-07-13 4:42 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-13 17:20 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-07-13 17:28 ` Combat result tracking? Elijah Meeks
2004-07-13 17:46 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-13 18:10 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-13 18:57 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-13 19:10 ` Elijah Meeks
2004-07-13 20:23 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-13 23:08 ` AI Motivation for non-combat units Elijah Meeks
2004-07-14 0:33 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-13 23:01 ` Combat result tracking? Hans Ronne
2004-07-14 1:04 ` Skeezics Boondoggle
2004-07-14 1:20 ` Eric McDonald
2004-07-14 15:27 ` Counterfire Elijah Meeks
2004-07-15 16:04 ` Counterfire Eric McDonald
2004-07-11 9:44 ` AI Help Jim Kingdon
2004-07-11 10:08 ` Hans Ronne
2004-07-12 18:07 ` Jim Kingdon
2004-07-09 18:09 ` Just say no to bungee paratroopers Hans Ronne
2004-07-11 6:01 ` Jim Kingdon
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