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IMO, barbarians are too weak! I play raging hordes all the time, and ONCE have I seen hordes of barbarians riding out of the wilderness and wreaking havoc. Usually, the encampments make ONE barbarian at a time. And why do they disappear after they do damage to a city? Dammit, I want barbarians to be FEARSOME!
How barbarians are now:
How barbarians should be:
Most of the time, the encampments spawn one barbarian at a time, and occasionally spawn lots of them. I think there should be an intermediate step as well, when the encampments spawn four or five of them. This would occur fairly often. A single conscript barbarian warrior with a combat penalty against anything that's not a barbarian is no threat to anything except an unprotected worker or settler. Having four or five of them would make the barbarians a real threat more frequently on the most challenging barbarian setting.
Once all the map is covered in cities, there's no more barbarians. Perhaps at this time barbarians should start spawning as Privateers on the ocean. All privateers look alike because their nationality is hidden, so this would make privateers more interesting to use.
Perhaps barbarians should have an advanced naval unit as well, so we can have some barbarian privateers spawned from encampments in the mid-game.
Someone also suggested the return of barbarians landing on the coast and unloading, in the style of CIV and CIV2.
How barbarians are now:
How barbarians should be:
Most of the time, the encampments spawn one barbarian at a time, and occasionally spawn lots of them. I think there should be an intermediate step as well, when the encampments spawn four or five of them. This would occur fairly often. A single conscript barbarian warrior with a combat penalty against anything that's not a barbarian is no threat to anything except an unprotected worker or settler. Having four or five of them would make the barbarians a real threat more frequently on the most challenging barbarian setting.
Once all the map is covered in cities, there's no more barbarians. Perhaps at this time barbarians should start spawning as Privateers on the ocean. All privateers look alike because their nationality is hidden, so this would make privateers more interesting to use.
Perhaps barbarians should have an advanced naval unit as well, so we can have some barbarian privateers spawned from encampments in the mid-game.
Someone also suggested the return of barbarians landing on the coast and unloading, in the style of CIV and CIV2.
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