Effect: Horses can be captured in the wild and placed in the Corral.History: Not unlike Numidia in North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula was known as 'horse country', capable of producing up to 100,000 new mounts each year.Effect: The Iberian player starts the match with a powerful prefabricated circuit of stone walls.History: With exception to alluvial plains and river valleys, stone is abundant in the Iberian Peninsula and was greatly used in construction of structures of all types.Iberians due to a Civilization bonus in will automatically have City Walls built for them, and possess excellent fortifications with Wall Towers along with special monuments that provide attack bonuses for units within the monument's LOS makes the Iberians an effective defensive civilization.Iberians have a severe disadvantage in terms of a traditional navy, able to build no warships however they are capable of constructing special purpose Fireships which lose health over time but are capable of setting enemy ships on fire and wreak havoc on wooden ships.However, their civilization do have special abilities that make up for this deficiency including "flaming javelins" that excel at destroying structures and fortifications. Iberian Siege is lacking, with only the most basic Battering Ram.Iberian Cavalry is decent but lacking at times, although benefit from various technologies including Teledo steel.
This makes them very versatile, and capable of fielding many infantry tactics - they also possess some of the best slingers in the game. Iberians are able to field a wide variety of infantry units, with an exception of Archers.The second was the strong fortifications they built, the oppidum (a fortified town) and the castro (a hill fort). Part of this has to do with two distinct features of the way the Iberians waged war: One was the guerrilla war style of fighting they employed in fact, the Iberians invented guerrilla warfare. Not even the great Hannibal could accomplish the task, and it took the Romans 200 years. When under threat, however, Iberia did not lend itself easily to conquest. Organized as a loose confederation of tribes and cities, their economy subsisted of agriculture, metalworking and exporting metals. What little we do know from historical sources describing the Iberian tribes, however, is that they were not a warlike people they did hire out mercenaries to other peoples, but they rarely themselves went to war. Toledo steel grants them superior metal weaponry. A number of their ranged units also have the unique ability to fire flaming missiles. Their foot units are some of the fastest and most rapid-firing in the game, particularly their Balearic Slingers. The Iberians were fathers of the art of guerrilla warfare, capable of lightning strikes against an opponent and withdrawing before he can mass an offensive.
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