1) "moving" barbarians are also easy to see playing as Egypt
2) "moving" barbarians do capture cites if not protected (was defeated lol)
Tried to see something and started Total Realism mod, and used Custom Scenario whith Total Realism Earth Map. Turned off raging barbarians, turned on Agressive AI, played as Egyptians on Monarch difficulaty. Here what happened:
1) Greece Rushed Hunting and Bronze Wrking, and Expanded to Assyria, Babylon, Smarakd, Parse and Parsegade. (used World Builder around 800 bc)
2) Germany made a nice stack of units and attacked Tatar (same World
Builder in 800 bc, so i dont know what stack that was, but had Wild Spearman on top and 7 dots). Tatar had also 7 dots, but i belive it was mostly workers and slaves, defended by 3-5 units whith Hypaspist on top. Germany Conquared that city. (Informant)
3) Skandynavia was full of barbarians, and it seems no1 bothered to attack it. (same WB at 800bc)
4) Moscow and St.Petersburg was unimproved due to Tatar and Skandynavian barbarian activity. (WB at 800 bc)
5) Rome and Spain unimproved...(Carthage and Rabat) Rome has only 1 city and 2 settlers in capital :/ as usually France build cities faster, so Romans dont have a spot to put one them selves.
6) Captured Carthage and Rabat, Roman workers finally left cites and started to build mine on hill whith gold south of Rome (have it seen thanks to borders of Memphis). Whats worse Spain still un improved in Madrid. Barcelona build in its proper place is being improved. I belive Madrid is affraid of barbarian warrior "camping" tribal village(Civ 3 goody hut) on an island west of Madrid... lol
7) Had problems Capturing Nubia. Feeded its defenders whith my nubian archers... so it had Hypaspist lvl 3 city defance, archer lvl 2 city defance, skirmisher lvl 2 city defance. Prepared a stack of 6 axemans whith lvl 2 city raider (had Great General in Thebes). Nubia was conquared by Arabian 4 hypaspists... 2 whith lvl 2 attack, 1 whith lvl 2 defance, 1 whith no promotion. Nubia had wall, and was attacked from north east, so Arabian army had river crossing penalty... 2 arabian hypaspists survived. I cdnt capture it whith 13 city raider 1 nubian archers... all died, attacked from south where i get no river crossing penalty and Nubia didnt had wall back than (Mali captured it for 1 turn, barbarians retook it)
8) Accidently spotted no aztec civ... its only city was in ruins, no unit near it. After Retired i found it was destroyed by barbarians in 3750 !!! on monarch
9) while playing the game Never did recive scrolling message that some civilization was destroyed. I did recived it in previous games.
10) adding to not improved cities. Barbarian Rabat, Carthage and Nubia was un improved, how ever after i conquared Rabat it had 6! workers and 2 slaves... Rabat feared Spain (borders whith Mali was not close), Carthage feared Rome, and later some Mali city. Nubia feared me as it should be.
11) After capturing Nubia i was mad Attacked by African barbs. each turn had 2 hypaspists near Nubia, 2 next units near border. Some times i was attacked by 3 axemans 2 hypaspists and 1 archer in 1 turn ! After using World Builder in that 800 bc i saw that Zulu was building axeman in 3 turns !!!. Kongo needed 4. Some other city was training archer in 1 turn. A bit too fast i say.
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Any way Greece is overpowered. Allways they rush Assyria or the city north of it. And they allwasy conquer half of what Alexander the Great did in 300 bc. Mongols are also very good.
Next thing is that Kyoto in more to the West. The placing of Kyoto is where Tokyo sopoused to be. And if it goes to Realism. Edo was NOT a founded city. Some city was renamed to Edo, and i think it was Kagoshima, but am not sure. However Kagoshima is the name of a land where clan Daito was placed by son of Yoshimitsu Minamoto (founder of Aki-no-jiu jitsu witch was than adopted by emperors army), who changed (seccond)name to Takeda. In the flow of time Edo was renamed to Tokyo, witch is current capital city of Japan. And i Never have heared of crossbow ashigaru. Crossbow was forein for Japan. And Japanese warrior should be named Bushi, as Bushi means warrior (hence Bushido).
And a future proposal. There should be new third trait for Civ(each has only 2). Like Something common to industrial will increace workers work rate by lets say 20%, or Worker production speed. Some thing close to militaristic witch will lower unit support cost or Increace income from pillaging improvements and capturing cities. Religious (not Spiritual) civilizations should be more aware of religions, making them hate Civs whith diffrent state religion more than non spiritual. And Cmmercial like trait to make a Civ easier to trade, like there are moments where a Leader says "we just dont like u enough..." will desaper or will require more hatred than just coutious.
Hope i made my slef clear. Am from Poland and might have some probs describinh what i really mean in English.