Sectors and ships no longer need shells to fire flak

4.0.9 changed flak not to use up shells, but they still had to be
present.  Drop that, because it doesn't really provide any value.
Moreover, this gets rid of the buggy flak shell supply code (seqno
mismatch oopses, lost supplies).
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Markus Armbruster 2009-02-11 20:46:27 +01:00
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@ -24,19 +24,7 @@ In addition, if you are pin-bombing a land unit or a ship, when
you make your bombing run, the specific unit/ship you are bombing
gets to fire flak at you again. This number of guns firing flak
in these cases does NOT saturate.
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When a sector fires flak, the amount of shells required is the # of
guns fired divided by 2. If not enough shells are available, either no flak
is fired, or the flak is reduced to the number of shells available.
Note that the shells are not consumed during flak fire, they just need
to be available.
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When a ship fires flak, at least 1 shell must be available.
If no shells are available, no flak is fired. Note that the shell is
not consumed during flak fire, it just needs to be available.
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Land units use no shells when firing flak. Any land unit with an
aaf rating of > 0 will fire flak when pin-bombed.
Land units do not need capability flak to fire here.
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The formulas for determining the # of guns fired in a general volley
is: