Bears, Bears, Bears!!!

[mcwill123]

Hi. I'm currently playing as Clan of Embers. It's turn 350 and I'm still at piece with the Barbs. I'm not doing bad, but haven't reached the point where they turn on me. It's bad enough with the huge pile of Sons of the Inferno next door and Tumtum roaming my country with some of his buds. But...... One of my cities is also home to 40 strength 7 barbarian bears. 40!!!!!! Jeez. It makes me a bit hesitant to declare war on the Barbs. Can't say it isn't a challenge. Can't say it isn't fun either.

 

[dot]

/me starts humming "Those are the bear necessities, the simple bear necessities, ..."

 

[DaveGold]

Satyrs.

 

[dot]

... are cool. But not so easy to get, aren't they?

 

[jeffreyac]

My current game, I had grabbed the tech for hunters and subdue animal ealry - had a situation with about 3 bear liars north of my empire, and sent hunters up there to farm bears. Ended up with a bear army of about 20 units, plus a handful of gryphons that wandered by...

Ended up crushing my neighbor to the south with an all-animal army - was a fun game. Still is, actually - haven't finished playingthat one yet...

EDIT: yeah, there were a couple of tough bears in there that ate my hunters - took a couple to take them out!

 

[JonathanStrange]

I, for one, would welcome our new Bear Overlords!

You might try reasoning with the them. It's time for their freakin' Bear Jamboree to move on.

The "Satyr Option" is a longshot; you'd need to have lots of fauns, get them to level 4, then upgrade them - that's just not an easy thing to do in the numbers you'd need.

It would probably be easier to have Bear City heavily garrisoned for the inevitable falling out with barbs. IIRC, bears have a negative city attack factor (in the unlikely event they attack into a city, which I've never seen bears do), so attacking the city garrison which you've also likely fortified is going to result in a huge supply of bearskin rugs, hats, bear-burgers,etc.

I'd save a few for the circus though.

 

[a_civilian]

Animals don't attack cities, do they? They should just head out of your territory.

Edit: Don't know why they lost hidden nationality though.

 

[mcwill123]

Yes, I think the bears should just move out. Still it doesn't give me a real comfortable feeling. My neighbor, the Ljosalfar, did them one better though. I declared war on them in order to take the last two Grigori cities. (Grigori had become their vassal after my Clan had beat them up in the last war.) Anyway, the crazy Ljos show up next to one of my towns with a stack of 240+ Priest of Leaves and a handful of tigers. I abandoned the city except for one mage to try to hold them off, cut my losses and stop them in the next city. Anyway they hung out there for 4-5 turns and then just left.

 

[fish_sticks]

They probably "lost" hidden nationality because they came into existence from Nature's Revolt. They were probably a pile of barbarian warriors that turned into bears and gain heroic strength/defense I & II.

Now, where did I put those mimics...