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Revenge of the Barbarians

Revenge of the Barbarians is a modification for Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm, a spiritual successor to my old Civ5 mod, Specialized Barbarian Units[forums.civfanatics.com]. Similarly, RotB seeks to give the Barbarians a more unique flavour, while simultaneously making them more aggressive and industrious, so to speak.

Barbarians now have their own unique unit tree, in some cases mere flavour replacements and in others meaningful differences compared to the standard units. For instance, the Bandit is an Archer equivalent and their first ranged unit, one with a potent attack yet not difficult to cut down. In the late game, one may find the Bush Gunner, the stateless Machine Gun unit which moves through woods and jungles effortlessly.

The first release version is meant to be the starting point of the mod. Updates will improve the balance according to player feedback (and my own gameplay experience), and I'll also be pondering new units and listening to ideas from the community. I'd also like to give the Barbarians a different name depending on the era (i.e. Barbarians/Rogues/Anarchists/Insurgents), which may be possible via Lua, but I'm far from well-versed in it.

Important! I recommend playing with Real Strategy active as well: I always have it on and can't vouch for the performance of AI civs and city-states versus these more merciless Barbarians in a vanilla context.

Homepage[forums.civfanatics.com]
(for more details and an overview of all the units!)

MISCELLANEOUS ADDITIONS

• AI civs and city-states have an innate +5 Combat Strength bonus vs. Barbarians, to help them stem the tide.
  
• Given the increased presence of Barbarians throughout the game, the Discipline policy card remains in play until Nationalism, at which point it's replaced by a new military policy, Counter-Insurgency (+7 Combat Strength vs. Barbarians), which remains available indefinitely.

Kudos to Deliverator for providing insight into Civ6 unit and graphics modding!

Compatible languages: English, Spanish, German (Junky). More translations welcome!

If you like this mod, please give it a thumbs up and/or consider buying me a coffee[ko-fi.com]!