A Detailed Guide To Scout Micro 

Been Playing your scouts into knights build order and been smashing it! If vils start attacking is it better to run away and keep being annoying elsewhere or can I be happy with a few dead vils then my scouts dying?

@@therightman954 it depends how many villagers, generally 1 scout for 1 villager is worth for u as the scout rusher, but if you will lose more than that, you shud reconsider!

@@NuriAlcoMovies hmm good question, i use patrol although im not really sure if there is a difference between them when it comes to taking fights

@@NuriAlcoMovies according to Spirit of the Law, there is no difference

Love your micro gudies Hera! They are amazing

this is the most accurate thing ive ever read in the history of the universe

@@iceefrags8770 Cheers :D

By the time you have 3 scouts you should have already used up all your sheep and boar...make sure your tc is sending vils to a resource and have one or two in que. When you go to look back at your tc run your scouts away from the enemy army or have them run around , check eco for few seconds, then go back to mircoing scouts

macro > micro :)

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Keep your eye (and mouse) on the icons with life bars on the UI thing on the bottom of the screen... once you see a scout bar dropping, select it on the UI and make it move

@@zaratrustamaster pressing alt also will show you health bars without selecting units

I think he does...look through his playlists

select all units, in the command panel you will see which one is losing health. click its icon in control panel then run it away, then select all again and repeat

I really like this sort of thing. Great job with this one!

Wait for 3, and send the initial one to keep enemy base open

Both spearmen and archers target the closest unit first. So you can either guess looking at the spearman's path or come at an angle, so that you easily see which scout is the closest.

@@Tergaim or you mark all scouts and look at the taskbar. click on taskbar the one, which loses hp and send this away

@@nicon666 That's an easier solution, but it implies taking at least one hit. And it's harder to manage if you have multiple groups of scouts

@@Tergaim true. and isn't that fast. but nice possibility for

Thanks guys !

bloodlines is 100 gold. That means you need a mining camp and 5 drops and enough farms for the 150 food. Unless you go to gold early and skim low on wood, you're only able to afford it fairly late in feudal. It's worth it if the enemy is on archers/skirms and you have 4-5 souts with high hp. But then you should probably make 2 more scouts, It's not worth it against spears. Fighting spears is bad with or without bloodlines. You want to dodge. bloodlines makes small difference. vs scouts it also doesn't make sense until you have about 6 scouts. Before that, it's more economical to rather make more scouts or spears.

@@neildutoit5177 that's reasonable, thanks :)

Default in HD were: Q for patrol, Z for line formation and V for split formation. Hera uses E and R for split and line.

hey, it takes practice. Basically you know because of the way the spear will attack, you can also let the spear attack you and only then you pull away the weak scout

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 That makes sense, thank you!

Scouts especially are more flexible in box formation, can turn on a dime.

@@arrapippol3741 thanks :)

I reckon you could pretend like that villager is a spearman, kite it while the other scouts attack it

what the psymon said, the vils will never re-target automatically the way a spear on patrol might or once the other unit leaves its line of sight, so even easier.

With the default formation scouts change the orientation of the line they form depending on how far you tell them to go. If you click them far the scouts move in a row one behind the other, if you click them close, they move next to each other instead. That means that it is a lot harder to micro them on small scales, because they keep breaking formation. With the box formation they keep together and are easier to control

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same as with scouts, move when the archers are firing with the v-split formation back to line formation, and make sure to target low health archers when you fire back, rinse repeat.

it takes practice, maybe lower DPI on mouse for more accuracy

lmaooo thanks!!

It prevents them from running stupidly into the ennemy's TC or into his spearmen while your focusing on your economy

@@PabloMarchenay makes sense, that might be why I always lose all my raiding units 😅

@@PabloMarchenay Actually, theres even more to it than that - lets say 5 scouts are attacking a group of 5 villagers. If you have them in aggressive stance and patrol, your scouts will attack random villagers that are close instead of a specific villager. If you use stand ground, all 5 scouts will attack a specific villager. This is huge since it makes vill picks easier and much faster.

@@HumzaCrumza true ;)

practice practice practice! it becomes second nature after a while

@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 Thanks for the answer and for the video!

Cause you dont want scouts to run into tc or auto attack spear. Stand ground is the go to behaviour for any kind of feudal raiding in order to avoid them eating the tc (has to be done with drush man at arms and archers as well). With spears or any unit defending you can keep aggressive stand, but when feudal raiding ALWAYS stand ground

@@diegeigergarnele7975 You can also add that melee units on stand ground always attack the unit you clicked. In offensive or defensive stand they will retarget if the unit clicked is among other units (like if you have two villagers together on a woodline and click one with your scouts on offensive stance, the scouts will attack both villagers at once, reducing your chances to succefully pick off one of the two)

@@SC-mo6fs yea this as well

a. Why would Britons need a nerf? b. Why would you post this on Hera’s video (which isn’t even about Britons)?

@@plackt bc i need britons nerf

@@SalvThe1 and... what do you expect Hera to do about it? He’s already made a “How to play Britons” video... just watch that and pay attention to the weaknesses?

@@plackt nah bro i know how to counter them i just hate them

@@SalvThe1 oh... lol?

thanks!