barbarian stacks of doom - or: the 24 horsemen

[Theov]

How do I take care of the 24 horsemen?
Mind that I'm the Aztecs and I have about 6 Javelin Throwers (who can enslave) in the neighborhood. So this is actually a pot of gold, since on an average this should net me 8 slaves. That's a lot of work force early in the game.

Thing is: if I have 2 Javelin Throwers on top of each other the will attack and probably win - killing all the slaves that were made, if I have too many JTs they won't attack at all...

I've just started a war against the Americans.

 

[MPK]

I think your actually the Maya. If you don't try to force the Horsemen to attack you, they will probably just hit that empty American city, raid the vault and all the piggy banks and then you wont get any slaves.

 

[Theov]

I think your actually the Maya. If you don't try to force the Horsemen to attack you, they will probably just hit that empty American city, raid the vault and all the piggy banks and then you wont get any slaves.

ah yes, I'm Mayan.
The american city is not empty though, it's just that we can't see them because it's not within my view.

The barbarians stay away from stacks of units it can't defeat, so I pressed them into a corner and enslaved about 9 of them. Slavery! It's such fun!

Those Javelin Throwers are a blessing early in the game. Huge advantage. This combined with the Industrious trait makes them awesome early game. And I'm playing on Earth, so I won't meet the rest of the world until Navigation.

 

[Everkane]

Those Javelin Throwers are a blessing early in the game. Huge advantage. This combined with the Industrious trait makes them awesome early game..

I agree the JT's are cool but I'm pretty sure slave workers don't get the industrial trait bonus.

Which really sucks, by the way.

 

[Theov]

I agree the JT's are cool but I'm pretty sure slave workers don't get the industrial trait bonus.

Which really sucks, by the way.

I know and it does suck, but I mean that having extra slaves on top of the faster workers you already have makes a nice combo early on.

 

[Metrin]

Advice for respawning barbarians:
Never let your city protection less when it shares borders with dark squares - even though you checked that dark squares.
I was at war in the industrial age. A part of the mountains surrounding one of my cities was "dark". I moved every unit available to the battle front (I left in that city one infantry) and then a stack of 20 horseman coming suddenly from the mountains killed the unit, pillaged more than 2000 gold from my city...

 

[Rodrig0]

as far as I've seen, barbs always attack units which are to the northwest/southeast of them. so if you move your JT to the mountain next to the horsemen, they will surely attack them. even if you move 24 elite JT to the mountain, the horsemen will attack.

 

[Lanzelot]

as far as I've seen, barbs always attack units which are to the northwest/southeast of them.

If you set the flag
NoAIPatrol=0
in the conquests.ini file, the barbs behave "normally" and attack in every direction.

 

[timerover51]

Hmm, as I play with upgraded Barbarians, my advance Barbarians are all Cossacks, and they are upped a bit. A stack of 12 to 24 of them is awfully hard to stop.