Re: Just say no to bungee paratroopers.

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

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