Is there a barbarian attack event or is this a bug?
 

Events like this completely nerf an AI nation at start and they go nowhere!


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Re: Is there a barbarian attack event or is this a bug?
 

There are quite a few of random events of some kind of independents attacking one of your provinces, barbarians is one of them. There are also vinemen, knights, and a band of adventurers. It's just extremely unlikely to hit your capitol on turn 2-3 like what looks to have happened there.

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Make an artifact Sickle that makes death gems from the souls of these you slay, and you will just love these pretty naive barbarians! :)

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I think troglodytes are the worst. Something like 50 size four tramplers can take down just about any PD that hasn't been bought in ridiculous numbers. IIRC the event also kills a lot of population.

The vampire count event is usually hilariously inneffective.

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The Ancient Presence is a bit worse than that. It brings you from 30K pop to oh, about 500 or so. And then you've got a province full of manikin beasties plus the Ancient Presence himself to tidy up.

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The trog event also gives a magical site (Deepest Cavern) with 1E income.

Re: Is there a barbarian attack event or is this a bug?
 

the ancient presence is by far the worst - I was engaged in a war w/ Helheim (i was subbing into a fairly weak shinu in a megagame), and then I no longer saw any real resistance... get to his capital, and it had been besieged by a large ancient presence force :)

although once Norfleet had his mictlan capital besieged by a vampire count and couldn't break out (this was in Dom II before it was figured out that mict troops were actually great w/ a high bless), so he had to pull the plug on the server in order to avoid a loss :D

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I didn't even know about this one. Do you need turmoil 3 or something to get it?

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Strong Growth + Magic scales, I believe.