The Illogic of Flight

Xietor · #1 May 30th, 2007, 02:21 PM

To make certain units immune to trample would not require a "z" direction to program i do not think. Units that are immune to fire spells, sleep spell, etc do not require it.

I am guessing some sort of command could be given that even if a flying unit is displaced by the trample, its damage from that effect would be zero.

Hugh Manatee · #2 May 30th, 2007, 02:41 PM

I think the units fatigue should factor into their trampling immunity if they do in fact get it. A unit that's to tied wouldn't be able to fly away fast enough(I see dead flat grackles in the road often enough to support that).

Tired Flyers should also drop like rocks if they try and move, or take damage on landing like the choppers from sid meier's alpha centauri(they run low on fuel and land outside a base or air field they take damage)

Reverend Zombie · #3 May 30th, 2007, 03:57 PM

What about...flying tramplers???

BigDisAwesome · #4 May 30th, 2007, 04:14 PM

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Reverend Zombie said:
What about...flying tramplers???

DUNH DUNH DUUUUUUUUUUUNH

Xietor · #5 May 30th, 2007, 04:37 PM

A unit that is flying would not have to move to avoid being trampled! that is the whole point. He is already above the elephant's feet.

you do not trample with your head.

Shovah32 · #6 May 30th, 2007, 04:41 PM

I love casting fly on buffed mammoths...... good times.......

Meglobob · #7 May 30th, 2007, 04:50 PM

What about the trunk?

Couldn't the elephant swat a flyer with its trunk? Isn't this kind of a trample attack. After all most flyers are fragile, lightly built and a trunk is huge, also surprisingly agile, they eat ickle peanuts with them.

Xietor · #8 May 30th, 2007, 05:10 PM

Eating peanuts is a bit different than hitting a flying target, and also, as someone else already mentioned, not all tramplers have a trunk. I was just using the elephant as an example.

And no, the trunk is a separate attack, it is not like trample.