| Barbarian Leader | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Cost | |||||
| 40 | |||||
| Upkeep | |||||
| Shields | Food | Unhappy | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Required technology | |||||
| - | |||||
| Obsoletes | Obsoleted by | ||||
| - | - | ||||
| Hitpoints | Movement | Attack | |||
| 10 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Firepower | Vision range | Defense | |||
| 1 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Capacity | Fuel | ||||
| 0 | 0 | ||||
Barbarian Leader is an unbuildable barbarian-only unit that is generated once the barbarians uprise. This unit type has the role "BarbarianLeader" (only one such type per ruleset is allowed). The leader is non-military unit with no ZoC, and just rambles around with a group of the other barbsrians. If you catch Barbarian Leader standing out of a stack with certain types of your military units that can handle him gently enough (of a class marked with "CollectRansom" flag in the ruleset), then the barbarians will immediately pay ransom for him - typically you get 100 gold bonus but it can be bigger if the barbarian nation has more.
Being a barbarian unit, Barbarian Leader may retire any turn he's far from any enemies. He does it especially often on coasts.
A Barbarian Leader is not at all such valuable for his nation as a Leader of civilized nations - after killing one barbarians don't disappear, and there can be any number of Barbarian Leaders of the same nation at time. But one thing both Leader types have in common: a perfect political sense ("SuperSpy" flag) that can detect any hostile activity of a Diplomat or a Spy on his tile and terminate it with the actor. So, inciting a barbarian-held city that is usually mostly simple may suddenly face an obstacle insurmountable for your diplomatic unit. Also, in rulesets where it's allowed to bribe units from a stack, don't try to get rid of barbarian caravel hanging near your port by bribing it until it unloads - the Barbarian Leader is almost surely on board defending, you'll lose your Diplomat for nothing.
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