Q about Info Center : Barbs

[vorlon_mi]

In the Civ 3 Info Center, under Barbarians, it says...


Barbarian uprisings are triggered the second time a civ enters a new age.
(once for the middle ages, once for the industrial age, once for the
modern age...) The intention was to basically simulate the barbarian
hordes that knocked out Rome and (to a lesser degree) the Mongols. This
made a little more sense back when barbarians were more destructive, but
having half your civ knocked out for seemingly random reasons was deemed
not much fun. Instead, we flipped the concept around and gave a temporal
bonus (the Golden Age) instead of a temporal penalty.

I am confused! How can a civ enter a new age a second time?
Or does this mean, "When the second civ enters a new age"
And what exactly happens in a barbarian uprising?
More encampments are spawned, or just a rush of barb attackers?

 

[Tomoyo]

It means that when the second civ enters the new age, barbarian encampments suddenly spew a great deal of barbarians and they will also spew out horses faster. No new encampments are formed, though.

 

[Nailo]

A barbarian uprising is when there is about 20 or so barbarians coming out of one barb encampment.

 

[Rwedgie]

Quite annoying if you have an undefended city... i once saw a city go from a 6 with i think barracks temple, aqaudect... to a 1 with nothing and my treasury was almost compeltely annihilated in one turn because all the barb horses rode in. Needless to say i wasn't impressed

 

[vmxa]

I think 16 is the max for any one camp. Note that this can occur for all ages after the AA. You don't tend to see this as there is no land for the camps by the IA.

 

[Nailo]

Sometimes I wish that the barbs could take your cities like in civ: ctp. That adds in a big twist in the game if they could do that

 

[morbror_sven]

And what exactly happens in a barbarian uprising?

60 horsemen come for your workers.... They can always find something with their GPS enquipment