Raider camps

[Kypamop]

How do you deal with raider camps in early game?
I tried to start several times, but every time I find myself surrounded with raider camps in early game so I cannot expand more. Also they block vital resources like clay so I cannot even start building advanced stuff.
They got towers and plenty of people.
I can cheese them with towers, but maybe there's some normal strategy to deal with them before I build barracks?

[Impos]

idk, i found only 1 raider camp on large map somewhere around me but even he was pretty far away, dound him well allrdy had 300+pop mb u playing on small map that why they are around you not sure

[Corporal Toruk]

I built a Tower then my guard tower would shoot them. Once I got enough of all of them killed, by sending a forager near and having them run towards the tower, the tower would shoot the raider. Once all the raiders I could tell were killed, I selected all my townsfolk and had them all attack the raider tower. Once they finished it, I had them destroy the raider camp. I got several swords and gear from the raider camp after it was destroyed.

[Kypamop]

Originally posted by Impos:

mb u playing on small map that why they are around you not sure

Medium map

Originally posted by mike73005:

I selected all my townsfolk and had them all attack the raider tower

Ye that's what I call cheesing with a tower xD
In my case 2 camps are very close to my spawning locations and I'm in between them.
I've tried to do similar to what you say by pulling them out, but they got 2 towers in the camp. So I'm not sure if I'm ready to get half of my population killed for it.
Got around by finding clay in a far away corner of the map with no camps in it. Will just build barracks with 8 soldiers and win the fight without cheesing.

[Kypamop]

Just in case anyone will try to find the best tactic for that.
Build two 2nd level towers and then start moving them one by one in the direction of raider camp.
You need to lure all the raiders out to be killed by the towers, without your towers being hit by enemy towers.
Then you can try killing enemy towers with your towers, or just send soldiers and towers guards to finish the camp.
Didnt find any better strat for now.

[Fess]

Looks like those camps bugged enough. For some reason they have icons with berries over them. When i try to destroy one of them it was indestructable and has no healthbar. Reloading wasnt help. Only when i closed the game and restart it healthbar appeared and i have destroyed this camp.