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.
