reddishrecue
Some dude on civfans
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Maybe the social policy revealed all the nearby barbarian camps.
And then vanish cause they used up all their spreadLike the AI missionaries that move, spread religion, then move again.
My guess is that it was a graphics bug. There are a ton of them that show things happening at different times to when they actually happen. Like the AI missionaries that move, spread religion, then move again. Or the units that move at the beginning of your turn when actually they moved before. Stuff like that.
Too bad the camp wasn't closer to your units. Nothing is more amusing later in the game than just smashing into a fresh barb camp with an OP unit
The culture per kill for each kill is pretty irrelevant as a fraction of the next SP in later eras, I'm afraid
A barbarian Great War Infantry would give 100 culture. Killing 2 or 3 shaves off a policy-turn. And if I wait long enough, CSes might ask me to remove it. It's definitely worth it, to wait before destroying the camp.
OK, I know, but you say 'Who knows'.
So I read Acken with ToA and decided to give it a try. Mind you, I have never built it on any difficulty level. Going for ToA screwed me over so bad. First, I panicked that there were no workers to steal, so I went on Sofia and parked my scout to get more workers, but Sofia simply did not make any workers for 40+ turns. lol I did snatch a worker, but got a little angsty about ToA and stunted my growth to finish it in time. Then I had to harass China for workers and block her settlers. Then I researched Masonry instead of Bronze Working (zzzz). And then decided to expand to 4 cities before even going for NC, which was a big mistake, and Antwerp already nabbed the sugars. On t85, my cap is only pop 5, I am finishing granary and then will start on NC. But at least I am swimming in gold and managed to get 5 workers for free. My golden age just started, and I will furiously chop for this NC.
It's ok. The start was slow, but I am catching up rapidly. I am more upset that I did not settle my last expo on river. I should have read the UB description more carefully.I would advise against ToA unless you get workers. It's the fact that I got some lucky workers which were going between China's 2 cities that allowed a fast ToA, chopping wood.
Yeah, I stole from that spot and pillaged it, but then she never dispatched more workers, and another worker was simply moving in Shanghai to hill and back to city. I was lucky that a barb camp had a worker, and then China tried expanding, so I snatched her settler. But it was already too late. I did something like scout-scout-jaguar-ToA-settlers. No monument because Aztec UA, and no shrine because no point. I just got flustered with settlers and then built a caravan on full production instead of growing.I believe however that China had a very vulnerable horse spot north of her capital for some stealing.