Barbarians spawning randomly in city states with barbarians disabled (Not a Bug)
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If amenities are low in a city, there's a chance it will spawn a rebellion. These appear generally as a pair of the highest melee units (on foot or mounted, never seen boats) that the city can produce, of the barbarian classification. I don't imagine disabling barbarians also disables the rebellion mechanic.
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I understand that, but notice I said there were no amenity problems in any human player cities. As to city states, if a city state is unhappy, should the rebellion immediately move to human cities? With +4 amenities in my capital and +5 in a nearby city, tanks spawned in a city state and each moved on one of my cities.
This actually has happened three times over the course of a game with barbarians disabled. Twice to me, once to the other hotseat human player. In no case did a human city have an amenities deficit.
This actually has happened three times over the course of a game with barbarians disabled. Twice to me, once to the other hotseat human player. In no case did a human city have an amenities deficit.
That's what CS rebels often do. You are probably a tastier target than a struggling CS, whose tiles are already pillaged.
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Yeh, the rebellion units just kinda parade around as they see fit. Generally they like to attack whatever unit they see, against which the AI deems it has a statistical advantage.
It happens to the AI opponents, too, especially in periods of war. A few days ago, I was attacking China (I forget who I was) and had plans after taking one of his satellite cities to take his capitol. I took the first city, then his city to the east spawned 2 knights. So these things come running at me because I have units out in the open, and before I could focus fire them down, they'd killed an archer, a catapult, and caught one of my swordsmen so he couldn't get away from between them at one point. He died valiantly, though. Then 2 more spawned at his capitol down south, so I avoided them by 4 tiles circling around up north and liberated a city state from China instead. Totally messed up my plans, his insurrection killed 5 total units before the war ended. He had succeeded in killing only one, himself.
It happens to the AI opponents, too, especially in periods of war. A few days ago, I was attacking China (I forget who I was) and had plans after taking one of his satellite cities to take his capitol. I took the first city, then his city to the east spawned 2 knights. So these things come running at me because I have units out in the open, and before I could focus fire them down, they'd killed an archer, a catapult, and caught one of my swordsmen so he couldn't get away from between them at one point. He died valiantly, though. Then 2 more spawned at his capitol down south, so I avoided them by 4 tiles circling around up north and liberated a city state from China instead. Totally messed up my plans, his insurrection killed 5 total units before the war ended. He had succeeded in killing only one, himself.
Unless you are Suzerain, you can't really do anything, except camp some advanced ranged units nearby to squash any rebels that do appear. And even if you are Suzerain, the only other things you can do are sends in builders to repair any pillaged tiles and camp units inside their borders.
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I don't know. It's something in the code and probably the reason they often still have spearmen and catapults in 1900ce. It's a pain in the ass when you lose a trader or religious unit to them, too.
Rebel spawning is a function of RNG, so absence of rebels on reload isn't determinative of anything.
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Yeh, I think there's a very small chance at like -3 and the percentage increases several times by -10 or -12. You can have an occupied city bounce down to -8 for several turns and they might not spawn.
