Can barbarians pillage

[Civfan]

Hi everyone. I'm currently starting a scenario and I need to know if you can make the barbarians pillage? A settler with an attack factor of 1 or so. I want to create random events which only purpose is to cause damage on the land, road, mines etc pillaged? Thanks in advanced.

[Exile]

Yep.

Barbarians will pillage, though only irrigation and mines, IIRC.

[Dr. Nick]

I once had some roads far away from cities pillaged.

[Panda]

IIRC, only defensive units will pillage.

[Civfan]

thanks everyone

[Gothmog]

Barbarians will sometimes destroy fortresses too. Sometimes they just camp out in them as well. Not sure why they do what they do regarding fortresses.

[Marquis de Sodaq]

They seem eager to pillage my railroads whenever they can.

[Kull]

If you only want them to pillage, try this:

(Idea courtesy of Jim Winchell) - If you have a unit appear via events and put the appearance coordinates down as even#/odd# instead of odd#/odd# or even#/even# then the unit appears in "limbo." It is invisible except when it moves. It blocks movement through the hex it is in and has a ZOC. It cannot attack or be attacked, although it can be bribed. If it is a barbarian unit and it is bribed, then the unit is destroyed and gives the player the reward bonus for killing a barbarian leader. The unit in limbo can still pillage hexes.

(Kull's Barbarian usage idea) - This appears to be an excellent way to simulate natural disasters such as a crop failure leading to famine. Use the above method to create the Barbarian "Drought" Unit outside a city. The Barbarian will pillage the irrigated squares and cannot be destroyed by conventional means. At a later date, create a "rainmaker" unit which can bribe (and thus destroy) the drought unit. Or at some later point use a ChangeTerrain event , the side effect of which destroys all Barbarian units on the map - unless they own a city.