After he got his sheep he sends his scout to the flank to help with early fights for good walls or get his flank's sheep if he lost his Scout. The pocket player has to support his flank right from the beginning of the game. The target is usually the flank player of the enemy team. Depending on the map and the civilisations the flank might want to rush (=build military and attack before Imperial Age). In Feudal Age the flank player adds stone walls for extra protection (if he is Goths he has to ask another player to build stone walls for him). Sometimes the pocket is in a better position to wall so flank and pocket have to communicate and tell each other who is walling what point. he sends villagers in Dark Age to build palisade walls at all the choke points that lead to the enemy team. The flank is responsible for walling most of the time, i.e.

Sometimes you get weird map generations where it's not that obvious but after a look on the mini map you will be sure. If the road that connects your team goes through your Town Center then you are pocket, if it ends in your Town Center you are flank. Usually you can spot within a second if you are flank or pocket. The flanks are on the outside closer to the enemy and the pocket players are in the back behind the flanks. In 4vs4 team games there are two flanks and two pockets. Both have different roles and tasks and knowing your role will make you a much better team player. There are two player positions that you need to know if you are playing multiplayer against other people: flank and pocket. In the late game you will be able to see if your opponent cuts through the trees with Onagers (you can also hear the Onager sound). Tip: The explored setting also allows you to see chopped trees, so you can see where your opponent has built his lumbercamps which is very useful if you do an early game rush with Scouts, Militia or Man-at-Arms. That means you can see the layout of the map, all the resources and the position of the enemy team (each Town Center in a team is connected with a road).

Many times there are several extra resources like boars, lakes with shore fish, berries and extra gold/stone patches which you should use to get an advantage.Ģ examples of a Black Forest Map with 4vs4 settingsīlack Forest is played with explored map visibility. Usually there is also not much action until every player reaches the Imperial Age. It is easy to wall and most of the fighting happens around those choke points. Those open spaces are connected with narrow paths which is why Black Forest is classified as a closed map (opposite to open maps like Arabia). As the name suggests most of the map is covered with trees and has some open space for the players and extra resources.

Black forest map