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Bombarder unit making normal attacks?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:57 pm
by Corbeau
I am playing a 3.0 game and what happened was a "Bombarder" flag unit attacked another unit and died. This isn't supposed to happen. Can anyone shed some light under what conditions are bombard attacks performed as regular attacks?
Ruleset is
here. The attacking unit was a Bowmen, attacking another ground unit from one land tile to another. Maybe the attacked unit was on a river, but I'm not sure anymore.
Re: Bombarder unit making normal attacks?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 9:37 pm
by cazfi
You have an action enabler that enables regular "Attack".
Some actions can block each other (if the blocking action is available, one cannot do blocked action). While the overall mechanism is much more better in later branches, you can make (availability of) "Bombard" to block "Attack" in 3.0 already.
Your game.ruleset seems to be missing a lot of fields that are in the supplied rulesets. Of course that only means that the defaults will be used, but you may want to check more complete rulesets for documentation.
In 3.0, you would use force_bombard
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; If force_bombard is set to TRUE it is illegal for an actor unit to
; explode nuclear or perform a regular attack against a tile if it can
; bombard it in stead.
force_bombard = FALSE
Note that such a unit might still do regular attack in some specific situation if no action enabler for "Bombard" is not active (and it's thus not blocking), but action enabler for "Attack" is active.
Re: Bombarder unit making normal attacks?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:45 pm
by Corbeau
Thanks.
Can I consider Sandbox "more complete"?
Re: Bombarder unit making normal attacks?
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:08 pm
by cazfi
Corbeau wrote:Can I consider Sandbox "more complete"?
All the rulesets in the freeciv distribution should have complete commentary, though civ1/civ2 likely still lack some parts for historic reasons.
Re: Bombarder unit making normal attacks?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 4:05 am
by Dino the Dinosore
I'm currently experimenting with bombard actions, and what I see is that when bombard is not legal, you still get the dlog saying, e.g. "Your Archers is waiting for your command" with Attack as a choice. When bombard is legal, you also get the Bombard choice. Do you remember what the dlog said, or did you not get the dlog?
Re: Bombarder unit making normal attacks?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 2:59 pm
by Corbeau
Dino the Dinosore wrote:I'm currently experimenting with bombard actions, and what I see is that when bombard is not legal, you still get the dlog saying, e.g. "Your Archers is waiting for your command" with Attack as a choice. When bombard is legal, you also get the Bombard choice. Do you remember what the dlog said, or did you not get the dlog?
If you're asking me, I was the one attackED, I don't have the attacker log.