Originally Posted by guthmund

And the barbarians.. I kept getting my ass handed to me by roaming barbarians. In one 'turn' they showed up around three of my cities. Over the next 3 turns, they took them all. Just for fun, I went back and re-loaded my saved game and fired up the world builder. I slapped a couple of swordsmen an elephant around one city, an elephant and a couple of crossbow men around another, confident that these units would be able to defeat the lowly warrior barbarians.

I again, lost all three cities.

I have no idea how to beat these fuckers even cheating doesn't seem to help.