Barbarian Civ in Terra!

[The Navy Seal]

Ok this is my first time playing a Terra map. And I have some question. Normally when you play a terra map do you find islands with 5 and 6 population cities?
Is this normal or am I just playing it wrong?

 

[Head Serf]

Yea, barbarians in Terra are absolute monsters. Taking their cities is like taking down any other civilization.

 

[drkodos]

Yea, barbarians in Terra are absolute monsters. Taking their cities is like taking down any other civilization.

For certain. And that's what makes it fun.

Showing up at a new continent and disposing (killing) all the native inhabitants. I bet it even makes some people feel downright nostalgic.

 

[douglas_21]

Eh, some people. They'd have to be quite old though.

 

[FuRRie]

350 years and older i presume?

 

[MSTK]

It's supposed to simulate the "old world" coming down and taking over the new world, which to them weren't civilized. So coming to the New World and finding large pseudo-civilizations are to add to the realism.

 

[jimbob27]

I've had terra games where the barbs have cities approaching size 20!

They didn't stay that big for long though. Not after the AI got nukes

 

[Marcus_Aurelius]

The price you pay for all that open land is that you will face well developed and dug in barbarians. Either you will have to ferry an enourmous force over to the new world to conquer them and illuminate every dark square, or you will be having them come out of the woodwork for centuries. It's more of a challenge than it looks at first.

 

[wioneo]

Noone cares about mutating the barbarians...

 

[automator]

Barbs are the reason I play Terra. It's good for the warmonger in all of us. Say you've built up all these friendships with your neighbors -- you don't want to lose your trades, but you just built all these rifles and calvary, and want to kick some ass. The new world beckons, ripe with hordes of battle ready, always-fightin' bad boys!

 

[drkodos]

Barbs are the reason I play Terra. It's good for the warmonger in all of us. Say you've built up all these friendships with your neighbors -- you don't want to lose your trades, but you just built all these rifles and calvary, and want to kick some ass. The new world beckons, ripe with hordes of battle ready, always-fightin' bad boys!

True 'nuff, but the problem is that promotions are limited when one is only fighting barbies and they are not as organized as the regular AI, which makes them weaker than the Little Sisters of the Poor.

It's shooting fish in a barrel.

Edited to Add: And Terra maps are almost a cheat in that the Human player knows there is an entire continent out there somewhere. Race to optics, then Astronomy, and the game is over. The only exception being the finding of the Fat Lady to come and sing.

Alll that being said, I love playing Terra at levels harder than I normally play on because I can get the win.

 

[Pitboss]

350 years and older i presume?

Or 80-90, if you consider the landing in Normandie during WW2.

 

[drkodos]

Or 80-90, if you consider the landing in Normandie during WW2.

Possibly even 70 or so. Many Senior citizens alive today remember D-Day vividly. Back in the day, I had the fortune of having a history teacher (Mr Rutter) that survived the landing on Omaha beach. His memory of the event was as fresh as if it happened yesterday.

 

[parachute4u]

Large Terra maps are equivalent to medium Pangea maps actually. If you spend the same amount of resources to research military techs (as opposed to optics and astronomy) and spend the same amount of hammers on attack troops that you would have to spend on defenders in order to take over the barb continent, you can easily take out your strongest neighbor in the old world with that.
Every time I play terra, I regret that I waste so much money and effort on underdeveloped cities that have no strategic value whatsoever.

 

[Inflammatory]

True 'nuff, but the problem is that promotions are limited when one is only fighting barbies and they are not as organized as the regular AI, which makes them weaker than the Little Sisters of the Poor.

It's shooting fish in a barrel.

Edited to Add: And Terra maps are almost a cheat in that the Human player knows there is an entire continent out there somewhere. Race to optics, then Astronomy, and the game is over. The only exception being the finding of the Fat Lady to come and sing.

Alll that being said, I love playing Terra at levels harder than I normally play on because I can get the win.

Fighting in the New World isn't supposed to be difficult. In fact, I'd say it rather is too hard and it's a bit stupid that the barbs are as advanced as yourself when you come over. But colonizing is fun!

 

[eric_]

350 years and older i presume?

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!

More like...it's still happening. Been to a "reservation" lately?

If you wanna talk about military campaigns, though, Custer's last stand was far less than 350 years ago. And there are plenty even more recent than that.

 

[Civ4rulesTH]

Funny in one of my terra games. The new world came and invaded the old world instead.

 

[FuRRie]

I was referring to Americans killing the Indians though

 

[drkodos]

I was referring to Americans killing the Indians though

Check your obelisk (or whatever timepiece you have been using). It may need to be updated to modern times. Last I checked the math, it was less than two centuries since the Trail of Tears and other cultures have landed upon the shores of other continents with imperialistic intentions quite a few times in the intervening decades.

 

[Inflammatory]

Aww, don't rain on his parade.