Barbarian Rampage

[biggamer132]

Hey all,

I play on Civ IV (not Warlords), Noble, with SevoMod, and in my last two games I've been absolutely overrun by barbarians. I usually manage to get to my second city before a constant stream of barbs show up outside my capital. Any advice as to how I can deal with this or keep it from happening?

 

[tycoonist]

post fog busters on hills to discourage barbs from appearing in the surrounding tiles. keep a fast unit (chariot/horse archer) in each city and defend important improvements like iron horses copper

 

[Silver Marmot]

I'm not familiar with the mod you're using, but on noble games I never encounter a "rampage" of barbs. Anyway, if you use fog busters you will have plenty of advance warning, and if you build roads connecting your cities to all your improved tiles you can move a unit there in one turn if necessary to defend them.

 

[biggamer132]

I'm not familiar with the mod you're using, but on noble games I never encounter a "rampage" of barbs. Anyway, if you use fog busters you will have plenty of advance warning, and if you build roads connecting your cities to all your improved tiles you can move a unit there in one turn if necessary to defend them.

I have all my cities connected as well as my improvements, but my probably is that I'm encoutering up to 5-6 barb units at a time. I'll try the fogbuster approach and see what happens.

 

[Ravellion]

What game speed are you playing? Slower game speeds tend to have more barbarians.

 

[RIcs]

sounds like a barbarian city settle next to your capital....
take it out fast.
(barbarian should upgrade slower than player in noble... so take it out. )
(even in higher level, they upgrade faster... same thing applies, take it out.)