Thanks for testing!
Aino wrote:- when attacking a town with a ballista from a galley, the defending phalanx prevailed, and destroyed my ballista.
It is normal freeciv combat behavior. Of course it may be unrealistic for some sort of units, but you can imagine, that phalanx survived so many ballista shoots, that this device was broken or run out of ammo.
By the way, ballista and its successors are designed mainly for ship2ship combat, they are weak against cities, and it is intentional feature.
Original ships were unable to attack cities, later ships attack cities by themselves, here you can run away ship after failed attack - weak turrets is a trade-off.[/quote]
Aino wrote:
- The 'Amphitheatre' should probably be called 'Theatre', since it becomes available with Drama, and to match the graphic.
It is kind of ancient Theater. There is another, better Theatre building available together with Shakespeare (Globe) Theatre wonder.
BTW, any better idea of "Modern Theatre" name for such advance?
Colosseum was not only in Rome, I've seen similar in Syria, also made by Romans.
It must be Small wonder, because it multiply luxuries (Amphitheatre/Theatre work differently, add them).
Note, that Bank and Stock Market increase only tax, I decided to split luxuries and tax apart (but Marketplace increase overall Trade, to balance that).
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Aino wrote:
- What is the reasoning behind only allowing one Viking per player?
Special units, which can be overpowered compared to other available, are unique.
For example Longboat (this is viking's ship, thus I picked Viking) can go on open ocean, before Cog is available.
Viking or Corsair can attack from aboard (other ships or units on land), thus is only one, before Marines era.
List of all units is in /doc/units.xls spreadsheet, column P (comments) describe, which one is Unique or have other special flags.
Phalanx etc are units based on original civ series.
Of course, because I added some optional tech branches, mainly Asian, feel free to suggest some special units,
graphics are also welcome. My knowledge about this region is very sparse.