Barbarian Civs

[Joeb WK]

Has anyone tried using cheats to give barbs settlers.If so what happened?

 

[Prof. Garfield]

Nothing, tried that for a scn. once.

 

[jadelicia]

...Too bad I can't enter diplomatic relations with them.
Anyone else ever try setting up such a Barbarian Civilization?

However, if barbarians could enter diplomatic relations, that would rather defeat their purpose. They would just become like another Civ.

 

[scloopy]

I let them capture a city last night and they seemed to churn out military units at an alarming rate. But it was fun because they were cheap to bribe. I did discover that the city they use needs to be far away from your city so they are non units.

 

[ElephantU]

Yes, that's called a "Barb Farm". Some people set them up deliberately on a small island far away from home (or let an Advanced Tribe be captured). Station a Dip and a ship nearby to "reap the harvest". They will build the same military unit over and over, and just swarm around the island because they cannot build or load onto a pirate ship to get off.

This is another "trick" you can use to get unsupported units. Just protect the island from the AI - they like to kill off and retake Barb cities.

 

[Specialist290]

I once tested giving the barbs nukes (one for every city on the map, to be precise). Aside from the usual results, I also got a few cases of the barbs fortifying them in Fortresses. Rather strange...