Barbarian Invasions

[AeonOfTime]

I set up a game for a 2-city experiment lately, on a terra map with raging barbarians. I let the other civs on my continent develop as they liked while I prepared a late-game expansion onto the free continent out there. Bismark turned out to be a real threat, he conquered nearly the whole continent but I managed to keep on good terms with him.

Interestingly enough with just two initial cities I managed to keep up in tech and even overtake everyone except bismark with his gazillion cities. During one of Bismark's conquests I allied with him and conquered a third city closer to the ocean. From there I was able to settle a fourth, coastal city to build ships.

When I finally sent out some units to find the second continent, this is what I found:

The whole continent looked like that. They even had destroyers and infantry, which made the task of settling on that continent a pretty fun experience - especially since I used the unlimited Barbarian XP Mod

Compared to the other civs, barbarians and ruins are a lot more interesting imho. What's your experience?

P.S. I'm blue on the minimap, Bismark is gray, Askia is orange, green is Ghandi and purple is Caesar.

 

[AeonOfTime]

I finished the game last night, I was nearly able to clear the continent and settled two cities to claim additional resources. Well, actually I LOST... It came as a total surprise, I did not notice I was nearing the final turns. I lost by time limit to Bismark's 400 points score lead.

I was just four turns away from a space victory And I had a plan to use my two Giant Death Robots to bring the fight back to Bismark, I guess it will have to wait until the next game against him.

Then again, my chances of success were rather slim, judging from his military rating:

Oh well, I think I held my own seeing I only had two cities during most of the game

 

[gunsnroses]

The barbarian continent looks epic!