Barbarian ????

I've never played any other civilization games before....CivRev is my first and love it!!!

I learned alot reading some of the threads....


I have a question about the reward you get for defeating barbarians. I notice that sometimes they give you settlers. Is there a certain time period during the game when they will always give you settlers? The reason I ask is because during games I notice that I got 3 settlers in a row from the barbarians. Then 3 skilled horseman.

I also noticed that they are more inclinded to give you settlers if you defeat the barbarians when they are settled on a island piece of land.

Thanks in advance!

As far as I know, what barbarians give you seems to be random.
If I'm wrong, I'd be very grateful to be corrected

If you go the mongols then you get to take over the city and use it as your own

Tokugawa- said:

If you go the mongols then you get to take over the city and use it as your own

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Yeah. I don't realy like that though because the you dont get a rare secourceto use. I usualy build a city neaar a rare resource.

Pete Atoms said:

As far as I know, what barbarians give you seems to be random.

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As far as I can tell it's random. However, there may be some differences based on what level you are playing. I've been playing Emperor lately and I don't think I've ever gotten a settler. If I'm very lucky I'll get something other than gold (typically a horseman, but occasionally a caravan or galley). When playing King I'd get a lot more bonus units.

Tokugawa- said:

If you go the mongols then you get to take over the city and use it as your own

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Unfortunately, it's a size 1 city and it may be someplace truly horrid. And you also don't get the terrain bonus that would normally appear.

I usually keep barbarian cities out of the personal prohibition against burning captured cities to the ground-just doesn't hit me as "civilized".

If I play as the Mongols in the G. Khan scenario I tend to look for barbarian cities to take over (and wait until their population is large enough the city will not be destroyed when I conquer it). I do this especially because it lets me give another faction a city (aiding in the future process of relocating them if they are small-thus want cities-and in the way-between me and a place I plan to attack).

On top of that the Mongols cannot make settlers in that scenario (as far as I've seen) so the only cities I can get are those I capture.

Any faction (that I've played) can capture a barbarian or minority faction city-the issue is simply that you have to wait until they are 2+ population to be sure that the -1 population drop that sometimes occurs when you take over a city doesn't wipe it out.

If you are playing on "Chieftan" difficulty, barbs will often give you settlers. You can have a whole lot of cities really really quickly.

After Chieftan, they won't give you settlers.

Other than that, the prize is random, but the prizes are as follows:
- 30, 40, or 50 gold.
- caravan
- spy
- vetern status or elite upgrade (the worst)
- a technology
- a galley (even if you can't build galleys anymore, by having navigation or steam power, you still just get a galley).
- a settler (chieftan mode only)

Friendly huts will give you:
- 25 gold
- spy
- caravan
- a technology
- maps of the local region
- vetern status or elite upgrade


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GGrayson said:

If you are playing on "Chieftan" difficulty, barbs will often give you settlers. You can have a whole lot of cities really really quickly.

After Chieftan, they won't give you settlers.

Other than that, the prize is random, but the prizes are as follows:
- 30, 40, or 50 gold.
- caravan
- spy
- vetern status or elite upgrade (the worst)
- a technology
- a galley (even if you can't build galleys anymore, by having navigation or steam power, you still just get a galley).
- a settler (chieftan mode only)

Friendly huts will give you:
- 25 gold
- spy
- caravan
- a technology
- maps of the local region
- vetern status or elite upgrade


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The friendly huts tend to give quite a lot of techs when you have reached the modern era...is it me or is that a fact?