Too bad, big villages is at a disadvantage at the moment too much defense coverage needed. Back then brick walls were bashable except pre-world 3 was pretty much cardboard painted red and bear meat was OP. Even back to middle world 3, you needed strength prayer to make a brickbasher in reasonable time. With immunity to brick walls, the meta-game started to go down the drain. Only problem is that it is hard to balance out attacker advantage vs defender advantage and it will remain imbalanced until Salem is brought out of developer hell.
Anyhow probably should move our nostalgic daydreaming to the Inn.