Why I Love Barbarians!!!

[Anthony Coulter]

I'VE LOST TWO FRIGGIN' CITIES TO MIND WORMS IN ALPHA CENTAURI! THEY JUST APPEAR! OUT OF THIN AIR! I BUILD THE CITY IN MOSTLY CLEAR TERRAIN, AND A MIND WORM COMES AND TAKES IT ON THE NEXT TURN!

Anyway, I love barbarians because they at least stop outside your city before invading. They don't just appear and invade.

Well, I hate barbarians too, but if that was all I would have to post this in the Alpha Centauri forum, which nobody reads. Now, nobody can complain because it is a comparison between those <censored> worms and the barbarians.

 

[xeven_god_of_helsibahr]

Yeah, BARBS ARE COOL...AND SMARTER THAN THE OTHER AI!!!

 

[shadowdale]

Well I don't mind barbarians - they always seem reluctan to take a city and when ever the do take a city the are very glad when you want to buyit back so they sell it for almost nothing....

And they are a good scource of unites....

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[Supernaut]

I don't mind barbarians in the early game (well, they're a sort of occupational hazrd) but I get really annoyed when they turn up in the end game, right in my heartland. Normally I'll have the place totally settled, except for a couple of squares, and boom, those always produce about 20 religious rebels. Which means I have to mess about killing them off - they are no military challenge, but there are so many of them that it takes a few turns to finish them all, by which time they've generally pillaged a few squares. And since I have finished cultivating that area, I have no engineers around, so I have to build some. Just plain annoying.

I now tend to play on 'Villages Only' level, just for the sake of some peave and quiet while I get on bombing the sh*t out of my opponents.

It's only 50 points out of 2000+

 

[Az]

I love Barbs also!!!

It's so funny capturing them and torturing their leaders!!!!!!!

 

[Az]

You can also go to this thread.........

It's pretty interesting...........

http://forums.civfanatics.com/Forum1/HTML/000224.html

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[henmike_sigo]

I think Barbarians should be classified as a resource rather than a nuisance. I like letting them have a 1 city and letting it grow. Then when it produces units, bribe them and fortify your own cities. It's lovely having a defense force that doesn't have any maintenance and can't cause unhappiness. Eventually though, they have to be bought off but the costs are usually real low.

 

[Az]

You forget about the 150 gold of the captured leaders!

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[henmike_sigo]

Not if they're inside a city.....if the city is bribed you get a diplomat otherwise nada.

 

[kundor]

After the end of gotm 5, I kept playing for fun and a shipload of barbarians showed up and took an undefended city. So just for kicks I disbanded all my units and watched...15 turns later barbarians had taken every city but one in my world-wide empire! There were huge hordes all over the map but they couldn't find hamburg...<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/confused.gif" border=0>
Did you know that an embassy with barbarians says King Attila is a "civilized expansionist"?

He was researching something too!

[This message has been edited by kundor (edited June 05, 2001).]

 

[infoman]

That's the first time I have heard of a barbarian leader researching something. What was it? One hundred and one ways to torture your friends? Sorry, a little bad humor.

 

[Derk]

I like it when barbarians capture a poorly defended city of mine, and suddenly the hills are alive with partisans.... with no upkeep costs. I love free troops!!!

Derk

 

[duke o' york]

Normally I'll have the place totally settled, except for a couple of squares, and boom, those always produce about 20 religious rebels. Text

Supernaut, if you get really annoyed that the barbs keep turning up in the few squares your cities don't cover, then remember that they only turn up in uncivilised areas. This does not mean within a city radius, so if you build a road on those squares they keep appearing from, they will be considered civilised and shouldn't produce any more. Irrigation also works, but roads are so quick that they are best.

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[Supernaut]

Originally posted by duke o' york:
Normally I'll have the place totally settled, except for a couple of squares, and boom, those always produce about 20 religious rebels. Text

Supernaut, if you get really annoyed that the barbs keep turning up in the few squares your cities don't cover, then remember that they only turn up in uncivilised areas. This does not mean within a city radius, so if you build a road on those squares they keep appearing from, they will be considered civilised and shouldn't produce any more. Irrigation also works, but roads are so quick that they are best.

So I just have to build more roads?

Fantastic - I have no objection to extending my normally extensive road/rail network - especially if it stops thos pesky fanatics appearing. It would also help when I get confused by the bloomin' isometreic viewpoint and send my army off the rails (so to speak)

 

[thedirk]

I'm all for barbarians. As already mentioned they can supply cheap military units. And early in the game I often have some cities defended by non-veteran units. Nothing helps make those units veteran like a failed barbarian attack. Then while the barbarian leader is stuck in my territory, my newly verteraned unit activates and gets me some ransom money to ice the cake.

 

[Omega the Great]

Well i like barbarians and they give me something to do when in the international community is being a bunch of *sses. And what better way to perform military manuevers than have barbarians take one of your cities and you have a bunch of marines, tanks, howitzers, jet bombers (in my civ2 game its bombers, jet bombers, then stealth bombers) and mechs. Ready for battle.

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[starlifter]

When I first started playing Civ 2, barbarians seemed to be my worst nightmare... but eventually I figured out how to deal with them... the most crucial advance to defeat barbs is Writing... I build diplomats, which can be used to bribe barbs or even invading enemy... and if you go "trolling", your get tons and tons of cheap "NON" units, which are upgraded by Leonards later in the game.

One of my early/mid game diversions is Trolling... have a dip or two on a ship, and scour the coastline looking for barbs, esp. ones attacking the enemy. Bribe them, and they'll be a NON, because the bribe takes place closer to the enemy city that your own!

Of course, there is the "pet" barbarian city approach, too, that gives tons of NONs.