Sliding scale province defense

[Jazzepi]

MaxWilson said:
The way I see it, capital PD is just free meat-shields to combine with your researchers. It's not supposed to be extremely tough (it's only worth about 250 gold), but it's useful for the librarians. I think I'm opposed to the idea of giving an initial 50 PD at capitals, in the base game. PD by itself should not be capable of fending off very many attacks. If you wanted to houserule that weaker nations have some immobile defenders for their capital, though, that could be kind of cool. It wouldn't stop enemies from stomping all over their empire, but it would make decapitating strikes less possible.

-Max

I don't think PD in the capital really fixes the problem. IF you get rushed by a double bless player using Vans, and they conquer all your territories except for your capital, you're just as screwed as if they walked up to your main capital and took it over in the first place.

Jazzepi

[MaxWilson]

Except that the possibility of a comeback at least exists. You've still got some income, and a bunch of researchers, and a little bit of gem income. If the rush player gets distracted elsewhere you might be able to bust back out--probably not to win the game, but at least to make him pay.

-Max