Guide to barbarian surprise attack

[bartaxe]

Apologies first: i'm no native speaker and this is my first contribution.

Yesterday i played a duell MP game, and suddenly my opponent yelled: 'Where the hell did this barb come from, it came out of nowhere and killed my worker!'

So, this is what happend: We played on continents, wild hordes. I built the GW and at the abovementioned point in the game my borders bounced the last barb off my island.

This accident leads now to my first post and an unique game mechanic - misusing strategy.

Settings:

Continents or islands (1 per player)
Build the Great Wall
Make sure there can spawn some barbs. Eventually you could farm and push them into one uncultured corner of your island.
Build your last city and let your culture flow.

Have fun!
Bartaxe

P.S.: Comments are appreciated.

 

[vanatteveldt]

Welcome to the forums, bartaxe!

Funny bug, it never occurred to me that this might occur

 

[goldenhero]

Welcome to the forums! Thats actually quite funny, I can just imagine what would happen if you ended up getting the barb uprising event and then popped the borders

 

[FlyinJohnnyL]

I noticed I'll routinely do this in the LHC games. I like the wall in isolation, so I can go lax on the military early on. I'll eventually have borders popped all over my island, and the barbs get pushed onto someone else's landmass.