barbarians destroy early civilizations

[tramwajg]

Hey, I have a question, how I can prevent destroying early civilizations by barbarians? here is a picture how it looks like, huge stack of barbarians stands near other civilization's city and I can't attack this stack because of no possibility of open borders.

 

[AcaMetis]

Can't promise it applies to modded, but in vanilla Civ IV it's usually a good thing if a rival dies to a barbarian onslaught. If you really want to prevent it the best way would be to either raise the difficulty level (higher level AIs are harder to crack since they get Archery/Archers for free and whatnot) or fog bust the area around the AI so that no barbs spawn near their territories.

 

[rah]

Turn off events lessens the odds considerably.