Can barbarians pillage

Civfan · July 13, 2002, 22:24

Hi everyone. I'm currently starting a scenario and I need to know if you can make the barbarians pillage? A settler with an attack factor of 1 or so. I want to create random events which only purpose is to cause damage on the land, road, mines etc pillaged? Thanks in advanced.

Exile · July 13, 2002, 23:52

Barbarians will pillage, though only irrigation and mines, IIRC.

Dr. Nick · July 14, 2002, 01:14

I once had some roads far away from cities pillaged.

Panda · July 14, 2002, 16:18

IIRC, only defensive units will pillage.

Civfan · July 14, 2002, 21:59

thanks everyone

Gothmog · July 15, 2002, 13:33

Barbarians will sometimes destroy fortresses too. Sometimes they just camp out in them as well. Not sure why they do what they do regarding fortresses.

Marquis de Sodaq · July 16, 2002, 12:02

They seem eager to pillage my railroads whenever they can.

Kull · July 21, 2002, 22:15

If you only want them to pillage, try this:

(Idea courtesy of Jim Winchell) - If you have a unit appear via events and put the appearance coordinates down as even#/odd# instead of odd#/odd# or even#/even# then the unit appears in "limbo." It is invisible except when it moves. It blocks movement through the hex it is in and has a ZOC. It cannot attack or be attacked, although it can be bribed. If it is a barbarian unit and it is bribed, then the unit is destroyed and gives the player the reward bonus for killing a barbarian leader. The unit in limbo can still pillage hexes.

(Kull's Barbarian usage idea) - This appears to be an excellent way to simulate natural disasters such as a crop failure leading to famine. Use the above method to create the Barbarian "Drought" Unit outside a city. The Barbarian will pillage the irrigated squares and cannot be destroyed by conventional means. At a later date, create a "rainmaker" unit which can bribe (and thus destroy) the drought unit. Or at some later point use a ChangeTerrain event , the side effect of which destroys all Barbarian units on the map - unless they own a city.