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Move units by right clicking with your mouse or by using the numpad on your keyboard .

Your goal is to find and capture the barbarian city. You have several different units to help you achieve that goal.

Barbarian Conquest - Instructions

Your goal is to find and capture the barbarian city. You lose if all your units are killed by barbarians.

There are six types of units in the game:

Scout

Recon Unit Strength: 1

Movement: 2 Scouts can't attack. Warrior

Melee Unit Strength: 2

Movement: 1 Archer

Archery Unit Strength: 3

Movement: 1 Archers get bonuses defending hills and cities. Chariot

Mounted Unit Strength: 4

Movement: 2 Chariots get bonuses attacking axemen. Spearman

Melee Unit Strength: 4

Movement: 1 Spearmen get bonuses against chariots. Axeman

Melee Unit Strength: 5

Movement: 1 Axemen get bonuses against warriors and spearmen.

In addition to the strengths and weaknesses of the units listed above, there are also bonuses depending on the terrain: hills and forests provide defensive bonuses.

Controls

Each turn, every one of your units can move. Move the active unit by right clicking with your mouse or by using the numpad on your keyboard.

To fight a barbarian unit, move onto its tile (or wait for it to move onto yours).

There are a number of other keyboard shortcuts, mostly copied from Civilization 4.

Map

Arrow keys: pan map

C: center screen on the active unit

Unit Actions

Numpad: move active unit any direction (N/NE/E/SE/S/SW/W/NW)

G or Right Click: enter "go to" mode for the active unit

F: fortify/wake active unit

H: fortify active unit until it's healed

Space Bar: skip active unit's movement this turn

Unit Grouping

By clicking on the unit icons at the bottom of the screen, you can create and modify groups of units that all move together.

Shift+Click on unit icon: add to or remove from group

Ctrl+Click on unit icon: select all units of same type (use Shift too to add them to a group)

Alt+Click on unit icon: select all units (use Shift too to add them to a group)

Turn

Enter: end turn, only after all units have moved

Shift+Enter: end turn early

Strategy

You can stack your units in the same tile and move them together. This provides better defense, since when a stack is attacked, the best defender against the attacking unit is chosen for battle.

But if you keep your units together all the time, you won't be able to explore the island and find the barbarian capital quickly. And the barbarians are constantly training new units to fight you, especially in areas out of sight of your troops. The longer it takes you to find the capital, the better defenses it will have.