Raging barbarians option in Civ5

[marioflag]

What do you think about Raging Barbarians option?

Personally i find that this option needs to be balanced because with it enabled barbarians are a lot less dangerous than what they were in civ4 without "Raging Barbarians" selected.


This is in my opinion what is needed to make this option more interesting:

1)Barbarians should heal when they are hurt to be more effective
2)Should try to attack only if they have at least 2-3 units to be more effective
3)A massive barbarian invasion event like the one introduced in BtS would be really welcome

 

[KAuss]

Barbs really need to have a CS type city instead of these little camps... They should have a small army of at least a couple of units stationed there at all times... Also move out in packs of 3...

They are of no threat, I almost want to turn them off because they only give you such a huge boost in the beginning to rush buy the first settler... I always trade my first resource for a heap of gold to rush the settler and war any wandering settler to get my first worker...

The barbs in IV was scary as hell... Mostly due to the fact that they don't attack right away but lurk outside your camp and when there is about 4 - 5 of them, they just pincer your small towns and you barely got your first archer... Or sometimes if you tech to oracle, you won't even have your archers up yet... In V they are barely a threat... They should use warriors and not these brutes... Unless Brutes get swordman like stats...

 

[attackfighter]

They definately need to heal. Without healing, you can pretty much kill all the barbarians with a single warrior, and they actually become beneficial due to all the gold you get from them. They should be a problem to overcome, not an easy source of $$$

 

[KAuss]

I feel more like a barb when I raid their camps than they are barbs wandering about the map not posing a threat LOL...

 

[Dave_Oz]

Using the map tuner, i placed a bunch of swordsmen and catapults around a ai city, the barbarians lowered the defense of the city, and then walked away to attack other citys.. what the hell?

Do they NEVER actually take over or raze citys anymore ? i've noticed them walk into my territory around citys, maybe pillage one improvement, and either stand still and be bombarded to death or walk away

 

[gram123]

Try using the mod Savage Land - which improves the spawning rate of barb's and camps. Im in a ongoing game on Duke (another mod) and i feel the barb is pretty annoying pillaging my cities and delaying my expansion.