Barbarians...Help!

Awww...@#!* · 10-12-2004, 03:01

Gah! I have my Britons developed to the point where the Hall of Heroes is the government-type building, and I have plenty enough citizens to upgrade to the next level, but there isn't one!! What's going on?!

**AngryGerbil** · 10-12-2004, 17:17

That's the way it was for me with the Gauls. The Hall of Heroes is not a government building, it is a barracks building. There is no advanced technology availiable to the barbarian tribes. Hence why they are barbarian I imagine!

What seems to be the desired course of action is to start cranking out armies left and right and completely overrun the world. This is what I did with my Gauls and it was quite effective. Got a highly advanced Roman Army giving you trouble? No problem! With the barbarians, troops are so cheap and quick to build you should easily be able to throw two or three full armies at the Roman one and still have plenty of armies left for conquest elsewhere.

Toward the end of my Gaul campaign, I had so many armies that the only way I could keep my economy running was through continual conquest and extermintaion/looting of populations. When I attacked Thrace, they had 8 provinces, and I had a full army seiging each one at once, plus some more just marching around mopping up. Their entire empire was gone in 7 turns, then the armies moved out and left for Scythia.

This seems to be the power of the barabrians. The ability to overrun and just swarm all over the place with their cheap troops. They don't need technology and advanced buildings and sewer systems and new-fangled gladiator arenas. They just need a spear and a target!

Ever played Starcraft? The barbarians are the Zerg.

Awww...@#!* · 10-12-2004, 20:00

Oooh. I gotcha. Thanks for the info. Now I can stop worrying about it being a glitch or something.

**vyan** · 10-12-2004, 22:01

talking of britains how does one get the head hurlers and druids? i have built every building and still cant get them.....

Awww...@#!* · 10-12-2004, 22:05

I am pretty sure it has to do with your temples. Err...groves, rather. Not absolutely sure, but it seems top be available to me to choose Druids after I build a Sacred grove to Andrasta.

**Emperor of Nowhere** · 10-12-2004, 23:19

That's correct, it has to do with the religious buildings. One lets you build head hurlers and woad swordsmen and another lets you build druids. From memory the third one just gives bonuses and doesn't let you build new troops.

**Raizen** · 10-14-2004, 05:12

Whichever temple it is that allows you to build Woad Warriors, the second upgrade gives Head Hurlers. I'd imagine that the 3rd upgrade would yield druids, but I'm not sure as I haven't gotten that far with them yet.

**smoothiemaker** · 10-14-2004, 05:59

you can see the tech tree of a city by clicking a buttian on the left side of the scroll it looks like the chart bottion on the finace scrool (once you build one temple only that temples advancements will be seen so loot at rech tree before you buit temple)
had same problem with romens at first