Barbarians not attacking computer players?

[dave17]

I started a new game today, (France, Emperor, Double your pleasure rules, world map, 14 Civs) and when I got to around 680 A.D. I had a funny surprise, a giant barbarian uprising from Scandinavia! I guess I was a little too late in colonizing that part, I wanted to close down the AI's borders first.

So I amass all my knights and get most of my cities making barracks/pikemen/knights to fend off and eventually kill the barbarians (I didnt count them all, but I think there's 24+ riders which are 4/3/2 with 4 hp) so I could colonize that area. Then I see a cheeky Korean settler and spearsman far away from home, marching right into the barbarian territory to start a town. I laugh to myself, thinking about how badly they will get slaughtered. But when they came just one tile distance from the barbarian riders, the barbs just decided to run right past them and head for my units which were three tiles away instead of their one, which really annoyed me cause they let the Koreans settle on MY territory. >_<

So I guess my question is: Does the AI have a secret alliance with the barbarians at higher levels?

WOE IS ME.

 

[KaNick]

The only thing that I can think of is the barbs come after you because you have less of or a non-existant bonus in battles with them so they go after you more than on the lower levels.

 

[hanskamp]

Dave said something about "Emperor". Difficulty level?

At Chieftain, Warlord en Regent difficulty level Barbarians are relatively weaker than you. A Barbarian Horseman is weaker than your Horseman or a computer civ Horsman.

Possibly the Barbarians in Dave's game might be stronger, so that might be the reason why they came after Dave instead of the Koreans.

 

[dave17]

Yeah, its under emperor diffculty, which means I should only have a 25% bonus against barbarians (vs. something like 400% at chieftain). But I mean the barbarian riders just walked by the korean pikeman/settler duo and attacked my town that had walls and was fortified with 8+ units qq.

 

[cableguy]

maybe they just plain dont like ya

 

[Randy]

Once in a hot seat game the barbs went past my "Aztec Warrior" on a hill to attact the other human player "Legionary Elite" on a grassland road, It took 20 little horsemen but they killed him.

Needless to say I was very happy.