Elimiating Rival Pack

[Okasein]

Going through WQ AE, I killed the breeder male and female of the rival pack I was just constantly "at war" with over territory, I presumed that most of their pack would have dispersed or ending up int he "departed" section after moving elsewhere with their pups who havent reached yearling status likely dying out. It turns out the whole pack just is dead- Is this how the current system is running or a glitch on my end?

[Okasein]

Ok plot twist, It turns out 3 subordinates DID make it out at dispered, ever other adult tho who was and was not in the final fight that took out the 2nd breeder? dead I feel pretty bad about the whole ordeal despite it being a game hahah

[clupis]

A lot of them get killed in other fights.

[Picksey]

Originally posted by Okasein:

Ok plot twist, It turns out 3 subordinates DID make it out at dispered, ever other adult tho who was and was not in the final fight that took out the 2nd breeder? dead I feel pretty bad about the whole ordeal despite it being a game hahah

lol, i go out of my way to wipe out packs that have territory i want, or who do too many raids. i've chased breeding pairs all the way into their own territory just to kill them. i like to change the breeding males and females names to "TARGET" to make it easier to distinguish them in a big group fight.

[yeetimus prime]

honestly any pack that decides to raid or invade i instantly kill every wolf involved. my poor map is constantly rotating colors hehe. it helps if you open up your known wolves panel and mark the ranks that they are. you kinda gotta, kill the entire pack to ensure you wipe the pack out, but sometimes subs will just disperse if you miss em, otherwise the pack will remain and one of those subs become a pack leader

[melmmhs94]

I find it’s a mixed bag for me
I target other packs immediately in winter so Spring means less work for me and my territory is safer. Also, this is the only time of the year I will have my mate with me. Once pups arrive, my mate stays at the den with the pups and I’ll do all the hunting and territory stuff.

I start by targeting the leader pair. If they show up in a fight, I target the female first and don’t let up until she’s dead. After her, I target the male if he’s in the same fight. If neither of them are in the fight, I still kill rival wolves to weaken the pack overall and take out potential future rival leaders. Again, I’ll take out females first because they carry pups.
I don’t really know a pack is dissolved until they stop responding to me being in their territory and they stop trying to strengthen their hexes.
I don't stop until I see these, so usually the pack doesn’t take on a new leader pair - the entire pack is gone and is replaced with a new pack towards the middle of summer. It can make that part of the season hard because usually they pop up just as some of my pups get sick, and my mate still stays at the den so I’m all alone to do everything but it should get easier with the saga because year two means my mate can stay by me throughout the year due to the yearlings.

Of course, there’s still dispersals to worry about. If I see them while out, they die. If they attack my den, they die. If I’m running and come across their tracks, they die if I can catch them. Male or female. They eat my food, weaken my territory, and threaten my pups! Basically no mercy shown.

[Mamba]

I had a pack disperse with only 2 survivors, the rest (around 6-ish?) dead. Another time only 2 others died, while the other 6/7 dispersed. I think it's just either random or they get caught up in attacks from other packs or die hunting.

[Naftali]

Yeah before saga, I rarely saw dispersals from the local packs unless killing the leaders because of a space/territory conflict. But I played as a dispersal off my main pack and one of the other packs just randomly died out overnight and there were 3 of them still alive out of like 10 wolves, even the pups died. I honestly am disappointed because I wanted to see the challenge of founding a pack with no free space and 4 packs already out there. The same thing happened with another pack the previous year, like the majority of the pack just died overnight.

[topp]

Originally posted by Naftali:

Yeah before saga, I rarely saw dispersals from the local packs unless killing the leaders because of a space/territory conflict. But I played as a dispersal off my main pack and one of the other packs just randomly died out overnight and there were 3 of them still alive out of like 10 wolves, even the pups died. I honestly am disappointed because I wanted to see the challenge of founding a pack with no free space and 4 packs already out there. The same thing happened with another pack the previous year, like the majority of the pack just died overnight.

If a pack disbands, all the pups of that year will die because they aren't skilled enough to disperse yet, so if the pack had a lot of pups, there being only 3 wolves who were able to disperse is certainly a possibility since all the pups would have died