User Guide

Barbarians
Barbarians are small tribes of raiders that are not part of any opposing civilization.They
always carry the color white.You can set the likelihood and frequency of barbarian
attacks in the initial game choices you make.You will encounter them periodically as
your civilization begins to expand and grow.They arise from villages in unsettled parts
of any continent. Barbarians will attack your units and plunder your cities.
Because barbarians can appear in any unsettled area,it is important to defend your cities
with at least one military unit.Barbarians (and rival units) can walk right into an unde-
fended city.
Barbarians arise in areas that are outside the borders of any civilization.They will appear
at the same distance from civilizations.Thus, expanding your network of cities over a
continent eventually removes the threat of barbarians, because the entire area has
become more or less civilized by your urban presence.
When you find and invade a barbarian tribe’s encampment,you wipe out the threat that
particular group posed.The village is destroyed and will create no more units.(Any units
already outside the village,however,continue to exist.) You also gain financially,as some
of the horde’s plunder is always found in the village.
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