"Barbarian Wrath"

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Has anyone here played a full game of Civ II under the Barbarian level above Raging Hordes, which is come to be known as "Barbarian Wrath"?

I am currently playing a game as the Americans under King difficulty, 7 civs, and "Barbarian Wrath". I am near the end of the game (1950 AD).

Barbarian Wrath is absolute madness. I was forced to go for the Great Wall wonder quickly to have even a chance. The Barbarians appear in massive swarms. They boil out of a single tile like those scarab beetles in The Mummy Returns. To make things worse, they often appear extremely close to my cities! :eek: In addition, yet ANOTHER barbarian swarm appears a few turns after the previous one! :eek::eek: At times, I am able to attack the very tile from which the Barbarians appear and I get messages like "27 units destroyed," "74 units destroyed," and "92 units destroyed."

Talk about monster stacks! :lol:

I saw a message in an older thread in this forum discussing how to enable this extra Barbarian activity level. It's very simple: just open GAME.TXT and look for the @BARBARITY header. After "Raging Hordes," add another line of text (call it anything you want). That's it!
 
yes.Using the same technique you can add extra levels of difficulty above diety.
 
Yes, I recently played such a game. I spent so much time fighting barbarians, that I had little opportunity to fight the other civs. It kind of slowed up research for everybody as well. I did not get to the end of the tech tree. I was finally able to build a defensive line and contain them by about 1900. :crazyeyes
 
The only time I really got crushed was when I was playing Civ2 for the SNES. I sucked at the game then. The computer crushed me. [punch]
 
I've seen similar stacks on the Raging level. Has anyone noticed if the other civs are attacked similarly?:confused:
 
Originally posted by chesspatzer
I've seen similar stacks on the Raging level. Has anyone noticed if the other civs are attacked similarly?:confused:
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Definitely not, barbarians hell only attacks you with such ferocity. I played one of these games and I managed to settle a small island completely. Guess what, no hoards of barbarians elsewhere when I cheated and looked at all of the other kingdoms!

THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU BABY!
 
Originally posted by Sorivar


Definitely not, barbarians hell only attacks you with such ferocity. I played one of these games and I managed to settle a small island completely. Guess what, no hoards of barbarians elsewhere when I cheated and looked at all of the other kingdoms!

THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU BABY!
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Not necessarily so. See attached save game in post immediately previous.
 
No. The options lists can only be expanded in the increasing direction. Simplest remains simplest, no matter what you do.
 
I found out about the ability to boost levels of AI Toughness and Barb activity not too long ago. Playing on "Sucidial" AI level with 'Barbarian Plague' activity levels makes the game...short.

[plasma] :eek:
 
I started this one game in which I added an extra level to deity It looked like this

Difficulty Level: Hara-Kiri (suicide)
Barbarian Level: Pirahna


BIG MISTAKE!!!:eek:
I was barely starting on monarch when i decided out of curiosity to play. Man those barbs attacked with such hard-core passion and rage, no word can describe they're level of... of intensity.
My poor, defenseless settler entered the black on the map, and to my misfortune... it was a "goody hut". However this hut wasn't full of "goodies" it was an unpleasant surprise: "YOU HAVE UNLEASHED A HOARDE OF BARBARIANS!" after killing all my settler and units. They entered my coastal city of Veii, and the brave Roman archers saved the day. But I got messages like 67 units destroyed. I survived the Bronze, and Iron Ages, and the rennesaince. but in 1967 the bastards conquered me!?. so i went back to autosave and i was so pissed that i went back and cheated. I nuked the barbarian bastards, and the remaining civs.
It was a good day....
 
I just read this post and thought- aah, sounds like fun. It wasn't. Deity II and Swarming Droves. I walked into a goody hut and they just swarmed out. London (my capital) fell almost instantly. For some bizzare and inexplicable reason I decided to add another barbarian level, which crashed the game. On that point, have you ever cheated and changed a city sixe to 0 then tried to take it/ It doesn't know whether the city should live or die, so it crashes.
 
Yes, only one additional level of barbarian difficulty can be added. Any more than that cause the game to crash. More game difficulty levels can be added, tho. I remember reports of deity+5 working - with odd things happening, but no crashes.
 
Civ 2 on SNES, I can't even imaging how difficult that would be without the nintendo mouse (God I loved smacking gnats on mario paint)

What was civ 2 on snes like? from a gamers perspective, because I remember the horror that was Sim city 2000 on platform...Still makes me shudder!
 
Civ2 on SNES? Civ1 was released for that system, but not the sequel. Back to Barbarians, I tried playing "Barbarian Wrath" and the extra diffuculty, but my cities were in constant disorder, so I didn't meet any Barbarians.
 
Easy - just open up game.txt in a text editor, go to the section '@BARBARITY' and add another level under raging hordes (just type in the name on the next line). For difficulty level just add a similar line under deity on the '@DIFFICULTY' section.

By the way, the barbarity hurts the human a lot more than the AI, as the AI has bonuses against barbs - I've seen AI settlers kill of barb dragoons before.
 
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