How to herd

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How to herd

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Always wondering how you should herd? Let me show you an example of the herding master himself. Meet Knuschelbar (no umlaut silly Asutrian ;)). See the picture attached.

Whether this is pure skills, hacks, or some unknown form of animal luring remains a guess. For now, we can only admire the pretty picture of about 15000 food in one screen.
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Seems like only a recording would tell.
But that is really impressive.

..I'll just go tell my idle villagers to waste 25 seconds on the 2nd herd most of the time....
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mholy shit
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I call hax. My herds backherd for no reason at all on the flat treeless areas of GREAT PLAINS
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milku3459 wrote:I call hax. My herds backherd for no reason at all on the flat treeless areas of GREAT PLAINS

How back here for no reason? There is a reason ,u need to learn back here mechanics .For every animal there is diff mechanics so if u memorise all them u will be God.
Watch rikkikpu past broadcast in twitch he tested why backherds happens and explained it.
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Veni_Vidi_Vici_W wrote:Always wondering how you should herd? Let me show you an example of the herding master himself. Meet Knuschelbar (no umlaut silly Asutrian ;)). See the picture attached.

Whether this is pure skills, hacks, or some unknown form of animal luring remains a guess. For now, we can only admire the pretty picture of about 15000 food in one screen.


Thats not even in a box around his tc, this is capt lvl herding at best.
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http://erikherden.wikia.com/wiki/Erikherden_Wiki

On a serious note, that happens when people want more hunts.
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perhaps i should not make a joke about it to prevent misunderstandings. Ofc wasnt hacks, just him herding it there.
@milku , if your herds are far away they can backherd because if you herd them towards you they will run "out of their standard circle" and then turn back at some point. Happens to the herds far away only though, but ye, a known issue on GP sometimes.

@umeu ... well nice flame again. Sure usually you want it around your tc. However given the map and where the hunts come from, thats mostly not possible for all herds on this map. Since he has LOS from all around via tc market raxes etc, and that this is inside and close to his production buildings, its fine vs raids if you are playing aggressive anyway.

@garja , i never saw this never before on this map, so its probably more like a coincidence with the spawning and how he was able to herd. This map usually doesnt even have mass hunts (properly herdable like this that is, usually a bit further away)
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Actually Adirondacks can easily have 3 herds of elk near the TC aka 30 bisons. It's disgusting if you ask me but people wanted it that way.
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Veni_Vidi_Vici_W wrote:
@umeu ... well nice flame again. Sure usually you want it around your tc. However given the map and where the hunts come from, thats mostly possible for all herds on this map. Since he has LOS from all around via tc market raxes etc, and that this is inside and close to his production buildings, its fine vs raids if you are playing aggressive anyway.


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@Veni_Vidi_Vici_W I hope it helps to herd animals Against Me and GoonGoon :love:
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so it's good, right? I'd assume so — what if cavalry comes in to ride?
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@breeze , dw, ill go full sea no herding ;)

@pecelot . Most ideal would be around tc. Given circumstances and the map this is still pretty fine. You have LOS from buildings around so can respond on time moving towards tc or army. Furthermore its very risky for opponent to raid in this specific center, since there are 3 production buildings + tc around that might trap you
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Veni_Vidi_Vici_W wrote:@breeze , dw, ill go full sea no herding ;)

@pecelot . Most ideal would be around tc. Given circumstances and the map this is still pretty fine. You have los from buildings around so can respond on time moving towards tc or army. Further more its very risky for opponent to raid in this specific center, since there are 3 production buildings + tc around that might trap you

veni vs breeze on water damn I gotta sea this ;)
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Jerom wrote:Image

Looks like you have all the Great Lakes deer on one screen there, WP.
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Looks like you have all the Great Lakes deer on one screen there, WP.

All the deer on the entire Great Lakes map + all the fishes, mashed and moulded into a deer shape
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Jerom wrote:Image

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I just wanted to show I too am erik.
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2 idle vills (*) how did you get to RO32!?
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I am good at my initial herding but as the game progresses and my APM is diverted to more important things I let my herds begin to slip away. Is it a good idea to go ahead and shoot animals down around my TC and have my vils spawn on them? Essentially I am letting my food decay a bit faster but as a result my vils are both safer and minimizing walk time.

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