[Freeciv-Dev] Re: One more thing against "smallpox"...

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> ...could be dependance of defense factor (of the city military units) of
> the city size. As example, for city resident units it could be counted in
> following way:
>
> final defense factor = unit defence factor * (1 + city size / 10)
>
> As one can see, it'll double defence ability of the city resident units,
> when city has size of 10. Which will again add more reality to the game,
> because in fact it's much harder to conquer large urban complex rather
> than village. And even a village of size 1 gives the defenders some
> advantage against fighting in the plains

IMHO, this is represented by city walls, indicating a fortified city. This
way it makes sense to think of Stalingrad as a city with city walls in
freeciv, even though it had no city walls in reality.

Yours
Per