docbud
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Define "right off the bat?" I mean, unless you're on Raging Barbarians an archer and a warrior (or two archers) should be sufficient to clear them out...
I don't have the turn number, but it's epic speed. I had a lot of salt, so my original build order was scout, then I started a worker (my research was first pottery, mining, then archery). When pottery was done, I switched production to a shrine. That finished and I then built an archer, as barbs were already in my area and attacking my city. Then I built my worker.
There were also three barb camps in my general area. One was about 4 tiles away, the other two were about a half-dozen tiles away. Naturally, while I'm taking care of one barb camp, the barbs from the other camp go after my city (so I have to bombard them). And I can't use my worker because I don't want him being captured. So I finish off that barb and one camp, get my worker to start mining again, and then a barb from another camp comes to my city. Rinse and repeat. And the barbs seemed to ignore the AI scouts that were near my borders, and instead went after my units. Wouldn't an AI scout be easier to kill for them than my warrior?
I guess I have seen so many videos where the barbs don't bother the capitals too much in the early game, and they seem to be going after the AI. Of course those are deity games, and I only play emperor (sometimes immortal). I guess it seems that the barbs aren't as aggressive on deity as they are lower levels.
Hope that makes sense. And raging barbarians is not turned on.
To add: After I cleaned out the barb camps, I then had to deal with new barb camps that spawned a tile out of my lit-up areas. Barb horseman then proceeded to pillage my salt mines. I take care of that barb, and lo and behold, another camp spawns south of me, and he proceeds to pillage another salt.
I'm thinking I'm now going to start positioning troops outside my borders every so tiles away to stop these camps from spawning.
Anyway--I ended up taking care of it, but it just seems that I spend a lot of the early game dealing with the barbs, while the AI doesn't seem to have as many problems.