Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
Welllll, I'd say that place in the picture is not playable in ASL terms. When the urban density goes up, the system starts to creak and groan. If there really was fighting in that place, did they really go house-to-house? Or did they concentrate their forces in larger open areas? I'd guess the latter, but I'm admittedly ignorant of much of Chinese history.And the walled compound design has applications even beyond the desert -- it was a common feature of a lot of towns in the Chinese interior that were sites of various warlord battles. (See example from Qinghai province below.)