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The Barricade is a special tile improvement in Civilization VI. It is exclusive to the Zombie Defense game mode, introduced in the Portugal Pack. It can be built by a Builder inside your own or neutral territory.

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Strategy[]

The Barricade is one of the two early defenses used in the Zombie Defense game mode. In contrast with the Trap, which does higher damage to a single tile, the Barricade does light damage to all tiles around it.

Barricades are generally more useful than traps in wide-open areas, as enemies will often walk around traps or spawn on District Districts closer to your City Center. Their small damage is negligible compared to a ranged strike by a city with defenses, but they can attack numerous enemies at once. Overall, you will often find that the space and Builder needed for this improvement can be better used elsewhere.

The upgraded version of this improvement is the Reinforced Barricade.

Civilopedia entry[]

The uncanniness of zombies comes from their ambiguity. Are they simply animate material, or are they living beings of a sort? Defenses against people rely upon a number of things that simply do not apply to walking corpses: pain, intimidation, exhaustion. Barbed wire means nothing to something that cannot feel. Additionally, zombie weaponry is limited: zombies do not build trebuchets; they do not fire arrows. So defenses against the dead treat the un-living not as a thinking enemy, but as moving matter – sharpened sticks to not seek to kill, but to immobilize, towers with retractable ladders provide refuge from enemies without brains to climb a rope, ditches contain enemies who cannot build a bridge. At least, until there’s too many of them.

Related achievements[]

It's a Trap!!!
It's a Trap!!!
Deal 50 or more damage to a single unit from trap damage on a single tile in one turn.
A reference to Admiral Ackbar's exclamation in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.

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Civilization VI Improvements [edit]
Standard AirstripCampFarmFishing BoatsFortGeothermal Plant Lumber MillMineMissile SiloMountain Tunnel National ParkOffshore Oil RigOffshore Wind Farm Oil WellPasturePlantationQuarryRailroad Seaside ResortSeastead Ski Resort Solar Farm Wind Farm
Unique ChâteauChemamull Feitoria1Golf Course Great WallHacienda1Ice Hockey Rink Kampung1KurganMekewap MissionNubian Pyramid1Open-Air Museum Outback Station1 Pairidaeza1Polder Qhapaq Ñan Rock-Hewn Church1Roman FortSphinxStepwellTerrace Farm Ziggurat
City-state Alcázar1Batey1Cahokia Mounds Colossal HeadsMahavihara1Moai Monastery1Nazca Line Trading Dome1
Governor City Park Fishery
Modes only Barricade4Corporation3Industry3Modernized Trap4Reinforced Barricade4Trap4Vampire Castle2
1 Requires DLC2 Secret Societies mode only • 3 Monopolies and Corporations mode only • 4 Zombie Defense mode only
Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.