Capture those pesky villlagers-new troop 'Snatcher'
This new 'Snatcher' troop would capture the villagers within the radius of the troop being deployed. This would obviously only happen at the start of a raid.
The villagers would be ever so helpful and stay in the troop's radius and enter a trance of sorts, similar to a spell fallout zone.
The point of this troop would be to add towards your player points level and increase that attacked base's villager count, up to a maximum number, say 15-20. This would enable the next attacker more opportunity to capture more to add to their points.
Inversely, to decrease your amount of villagers to the base level of villagers you would need to snatch villagers other bases.
Perhaps there could be more than just lady villagers- men, children, dog. And they could be varying amounts of points when you capture them.
They would only take up a small amount of housing space, not usable in CC defence, and training time would be on par with a Barb.