Thanks to Barbatos, I finally used the #$&! world editor

[White Elk]

In 3 out of 3 tiny Islands maps which I generated, there was a civ starting point which
was in range of Barbatos summons. In one of them Barbatos himself was in range...

 

[Calavente]

why can't barbathos be founded in the same way as archeron ???
I mean : resurfacing on a place void of cultural influence, some X turns after the start ?

 

[kenken244]

Wow two unique features next to eachother... but neither of them are good to have

 

[Nikis-Knight]

Here's an interesting game:
To my east

He's already declared war on me.
To my west

Barbatos controls two capital quality Barbarian cities. Raging barbs whether I like it or not.

 

[Demus]

barbatos alone would be interesting. Those doviello just upped it to insane ;-) patria + mirror + gold + iron in you're capitals BFC... you're just lucky there's no food in there aswell

 

[blueparrot1966]

Enjoy the game, see you at the funeral. Soon.

 

[Thennorin]

Bringing this up again... v0.30 patch c.

I hope there are plans to work on Barbatos. With 3 turn, 3 move summons, it's too frequent that one player or another starts within striking range of him: especially on a small map! And starting within range of Barbatos = death, no way around it. That's not fun.

Also, the lich has some buggy AI behaviour. I just played a (short) game where his summons could reach me in one turn but he didn't immediately wipe me out. Wraiths and elementals only started being summoned once I built a worker and moved it one tile closer to Barbatos. If I moved the worker out of this range, Barbatos stopped casting. Any existing summons would erratically attack my capital, stay still or go wandering.

The second weird behaviour is that for a while, Barbatos was casting every turn but no summons were appearing. Was he casting some sort of spell on himself? It happened for at least 10 turns in a row, then he went back to summons.

Lastly, Barbatos did finally assault my capital without being enticed by a worker. But it took over 150 turns for him to do it

 

[westamastaflash]

Bringing this up again... v0.30 patch c.

I hope there are plans to work on Barbatos. With 3 turn, 3 move summons, it's too frequent that one player or another starts within striking range of him: especially on a small map! And starting within range of Barbatos = death, no way around it. That's not fun.

Also, the lich has some buggy AI behaviour. I just played a (short) game where his summons could reach me in one turn but he didn't immediately wipe me out. Wraiths and elementals only started being summoned once I built a worker and moved it one tile closer to Barbatos. If I moved the worker out of this range, Barbatos stopped casting. Any existing summons would erratically attack my capital, stay still or go wandering.

The second weird behaviour is that for a while, Barbatos was casting every turn but no summons were appearing. Was he casting some sort of spell on himself? It happened for at least 10 turns in a row, then he went back to summons.

Lastly, Barbatos did finally assault my capital without being enticed by a worker. But it took over 150 turns for him to do it

He has to work his way up to spell extension I and II - the summons are slow at first.

 

[Thennorin]

Oh, I didn't know that... Though the summons already had 3 moves by the time I got my first worker built, so it's still excessive.

 

[White Elk]

I also noticed that Barbatos summons have an appetite for workers.
I logged a few occurrences within this game report.

On tiny and small maps it appears that the chances are especially high that a civ will start within range of Barbatos. And with so few civs, losing one to him has a big impact on the game. hehe 'specially if its your civ that gets toasted.