How to deal with overwhelming manhunter packs?

[Kael]

With Raids, often they just want booty. Get something. Set something on fire.

But atm im in a situation where my wealth has exploded because i got much food and im in the medieval period. The thing is: i falled back with all my colonists in my main building, in winter, stacked with food. And now, 2 days after the manhunter pack arrived. these 30 creatures are still outside and wont go to sleep so the manhunter thing reset?

[I Throw Spears.]

Just use a bottle neck.

Get a hallway, get a single guy with a decent melee skill, and all archers behind him. Easy peasy.

[sooshon]

they will leave eventually, if you've been waiting 2 days already, can't be long; or bottleneck like the other person said, but preferably always use 3 persons with melee at a bottleneck instead of 1, since they you can still force the enemy to file in 1 wide mostly (have room on your side of a door to the sides, but not on the other side). You can also use grenades or tox grenades on the pile of creatures on the far side of the door but have the pawn equipped with them be somewhere directly back from the front person in the middle and aim them on the ground not too close to the door to help (this is especially good vs insects to do a lot of damage with grenades , not with tox since they are immune). You can use psycasts like stun and whatnot to help if you have them to get as much mileage out of your melee guy while your guys are shooting from behind. Also, if there are natural chokepoints on the map you could build some walls with doors here and there, try to enclose some area that would keep manhunter packs outside of your inner area where your pawns can still do useful work like planting or cutting wood, mining etc but just disallow the door \ relevant areas while the manhunter pack is on the far side and it won't affect you as much as being cooped up inside the actual house the whole time, they will just end up acting as an extra guard in your favor against raiders.

[I Throw Spears.]

Eh, thats a lot of free meat and hide if you leave them. Not to mention the lack of ability to roam where he pleases.

[sooshon]

Originally posted by I Throw Spears.:

Eh, thats a lot of free meat and hide if you leave them. Not to mention the lack of ability to roam where he pleases.

most are affected by scaria these days, remember?

[I Throw Spears.]

Originally posted by sooshon:

Originally posted by I Throw Spears.:

Eh, thats a lot of free meat and hide if you leave them. Not to mention the lack of ability to roam where he pleases.

most are affected by scaria these days, remember?

I do remember.

You still more a lot more than 0, especially considering OP is talking about "overwhelming manhunter packs".

[sooshon]

Originally posted by I Throw Spears.:

Originally posted by sooshon:

most are affected by scaria these days, remember?

I do remember.

You still more a lot more than 0, especially considering OP is talking about "overwhelming manhunter packs".

And he also said he has too much food

[Kael]

Also i dont know how to get Grenades in medieval times ;D

Generally... i stayed in my house. Winter came and these monsters died. So still won

[HidesHisFace]

As others mentioned - bottleneck them.
If you can't conceavably deal with their numbers - hide inside your base, do not let them see you open the door or they will barge in.

Manhunter packs are infected with scaria disease, and they do not eat - so if you can afford sitting inside, you can starve them out.

[hardy_conrad]

Yeah bottlenecks are great for dealing with even the biggest herds. I was panicking over a swarm earlier today but they all squished into a long tunnel through the mountain where I did exactly as suggested. Stuck my meatshield in front and range dudes behind, easy peasy. Even with most of the corpses being rotten I still got enough hides and meat to feel pretty satisfied, especially since at first I was expected to get wrecked.

[Wrinkle Raisin]

Medieval Towns were walled in for reasons.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by 🅶 I|I Kael π:

How to deal with overwhelming manhunter packs?

Close the doors...

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Events#Manhunter_pack

They're not a threat if you can stay "inside" and out of sight for a few days. Though, they're usually a good source of resources if you can take them out as they usually come in large numbers.

[Kael]

Originally posted by Wrinkle Raisin:

Medieval Towns were walled in for reasons.

Yea i know. My walls werent ready to that time. Also it was just wood. So next wave was raids and they burned my walls down ;_;

[[PBS] Kafka Rambo]

Originally posted by Morkonan:

Originally posted by 🅶 I|I Kael π:

How to deal with overwhelming manhunter packs?

Close the doors...

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Events#Manhunter_pack

They're not a threat if you can stay "inside" and out of sight for a few days. Though, they're usually a good source of resources if you can take them out as they usually come in large numbers.

A good idea is to barricade doors by building a single block of wall in front of them, so no one leaves even if there's a mental break or something.