Where do Barbarians come from?

[Sava]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
go to custom game

pick no barbs...end of story

seriously...

it's not like this is not an option that cannot be turned off

if you don't want barbs TURN THEM OFF

so stop whining about them!

the thread starter should change his name to "Destroyee"

[Dis]

It's be nice to have adjustable barb settings. Having raging or no barbs is no fun. We want an in between. Enough to keep you on your toes, but not enough where you face more challenge from the barbarians than the other civs combined.

[QuantumPion]

I'm playing my first terra game. I was the first to get to the new world. I was surprised to find it completely settled with 12 pop barb cities with walls/castle/8 longbowmen.

I've killed 104 longbowmen since then as well, since they keep throwing masses of them against my maxed out macemen in my only colony...

It's been 800 years since I first found the new world, and with cannons and rifleman I'm finally starting to take them out.

[Sgt_Serge]

I LOVE BARBS....

I usually try to build my cities in a way that part of the map is blocked to all other players - and sometimes there's some fog'o'war left. I then put a stack of 3-4 units to that border and after some time they're really well trained.

But it's trick to figure out when to put a unit right in the middle of the fog because at some point they start overrunning the defenses...

[Datajack Franit]

I'm playing my first terra game. I was the first to get to the new world. I was surprised to find it completely settled with 12 pop barb cities with walls/castle/8 longbowmen.

[ElConejo]

Originally posted by LordShiva
"Mommy, where do barbarians come from?"

Seriously, it's annoying. It's like pollution in Civ 3. "Whack the barb"...

Darn! You got to it first!

I was going to say:

"Where do barbarians come from?"
"Well you see when a man in loin-cloth loves a woman in loin-cloth..."

[Zoid]

You´re both too late. LordShiva already made the joke (sort of) in the second post

[Destroyer]

It does give the game a completely new facet that I wasnt expecting on my first few games.

In the other civs I kept my armies to the bare minimum, and expanded as fast as possible with no escort for settlers or workers.

The only problem with this game is if your empire is in the centre of a huge landmass. Barabarians attack from all sides, and you need a huge standing army to push them out of your territory to expand or improve your outer cities

[teutonic_knight]

Originally posted by Bill3000
You see, honey, when a mommy Barbarian loves a daddy Barbarian very very much...

HAHAHAHA!!

I have to have barbarians turned on. Makes for a more interesting game and keeps me on my toes in the early game. Also, it helps gain XP for my armies.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Destroyer
It does give the game a completely new facet that I wasnt expecting on my first few games.

In the other civs I kept my armies to the bare minimum, and expanded as fast as possible with no escort for settlers or workers.

The only problem with this game is if your empire is in the centre of a huge landmass. Barabarians attack from all sides, and you need a huge standing army to push them out of your territory to expand or improve your outer cities

try playing the earth map as the mongols. I tried that. The barbs were just raping me. And I was supposed to do the raping.

[Datajack Franit]

I just lost a monarch game probably because of the barbs, wasted lot of time in preparing my west border safe from them, meanwhile Russia, Greece and Rome flooded from south and east (praetorians are CRAZY units! how can you beat an army of them when you only have archers? and those were fortified archers in 5 size cities with walls and on the opposite side of a river)

[Alphard]

Tried My first Monarh GAMES yesterday. Was wiped out by barbs 4 times in a row.. I am considering moving back to Prince.



Great fun tho

[yin26]

First, make sure your barbs are tuned on. This might require the use of Barbies.

[Disk Killer]

I dunno... my girlfriend hates the barbarians, they cause her a lot of grief.

From the get go, I send military expeditions to borderlands that would otherwise be fog-of-war and I ensure that I set up patrols.... so I never seem to have any sort of huge problem. The worst was when I was spread too thin and they sent a few axemen, but I concentrated on them and wiped them out within twenty turns.

Another game they had one city that I fortified an archer just outside in the forest, so whenever they spawned a sword or axe (don't remember which) they attacked and lost, and gave my unit experience. Once I had macemen I took the city (yay!).

I think you just have to remember them in your grand strategy - ignore them at your peril.

[Dis]

I had my first experience with a barb city on my continent (that wasn't on a terran world) last night. I couldn't take it with archers. But my jaguars had no problem taking it. And my jaguars then proceeded to wipe out the malinese. Until my support costs went through the roof, and the game disbanded my entire army even at 0% research rate. . I had to make peace before conquering his final capitol city.