Back in 1997, there was an old patch for making combat
more interesting, I don't think there was any real
problems with it but it just faded off into a black hole :)
I'm thinking the features it proposed would be
interesting to implement in modern cf some time.
Attaching the original patch. See PLAYGUIDE and CFMAIL
in the patch archive. CHANGES in the patch archive is
incomplete (see README.FIRST).
Original Advanced Combat Patch (applied to crossfire 0.93.5)