Barbarian Founding Religion

[Doom Scythe]

Merry Christmas!

Thought I'd share one of the weirdest moments in my Civ 4 gaming history. I've just started playing in Marathon mode in Islands type of map. I sent my galley out to search for new lands to be colonised and lo and behold, I discover this:

Judaism was discoverd by a Barbarian city.

Check out the screenshots below. This is certainly the weirdest thing I've ever seen in Civ 4.

 

[IAM]

I've seen barbarians capture a city from a cilization that founded a religion.

 

[Kadazzle]

It looks like they Barb-rushed the Khmer capital, which happened to have founded Judaism. That's why I love playing Huge continents games with Raging Barbarians, always atleast 2 of your opponents are dead before you even have Mathematics.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

That is a Khmer city name, IIRC.

Edit, xpost.

 

[Doom Scythe]

Lol, I didn't know that it was the Khmer city. Thanks for pointing it out, and here I was thinking "Wow, Barbs can found a religion".

 

[Ramesses]

Lol, I didn't know that it was the Khmer city. Thanks for pointing it out, and here I was thinking "Wow, Barbs can found a religion".

Actually, they can.

One time, I played a game with just me against the barbarians (a lot more boring than I thought it'd be.) Anyway, as I was playing, I assumed I would end up founding all the religions, but a Barbarian Civ ended up founding one of them! I think it was Confuscianism.

 

[King of Town]

For some reason i thought the barbs couldn't have a tech until at least two other people had it and even then they had a restricted list. I've seen them build a wonder before, but never found a religion.

 

[azzaman333]

Stolen .

 

[Harry Potter52]

They can build wonders? wow, i have never seen that happen

 

[schwanger]

They can build wonders? wow, i have never seen that happen

The only time I've seen it happen is on a terra map where the barbarians have the time and space to develop pretty good-sized cities. They beat me to the Hanging Gardens by about 4 turns. I was pissed; I wanted those damn Great Engineer points.

 

[Harry Potter52]

OUCH!!!!! I hate terra maps for the bad use of the americas, generally I play continents instead, more balanced

 

[IAM]

When barbarians capture a wonder like Stonhenge does it place a monument in other barbarian cities? Are all barbarian cities treated as a single empire for wonders?

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[Faramel]

Well on one hand it might be easier to capture a holy city if barbarians have than if another civ had it.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

That's definitely the Khmer capitol.

The barbs don't get a palace and are therefore very limited in terms of research potential, but they *can* research techs ahead of the player...it's just that under normal circumstances that shouldn't be happening.

 

[bestbrian]

Well on one hand it might be easier to capture a holy city if barbarians have than if another civ had it.

I had a game not so long ago with Raging Barbs on a Great Plains map. I managed to get the Great Wall and the Barbs went nuts and killed off 5 or so Civs (out of 18). One of them was my neighbor Brennus (who I never got a chance to meet), and his capital was the holy city of some religion or other. Took it, Shrined it, and spread it around for big bucks and positive diplo.