Northgard - Medieval Mythological Colony Survival

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we're going to do a bit of a little bit of it's kind of slow right now there's not like a whole stuff that's popping that's kind of like at the level that i need it to be at and so during these times i like to dip into the backlog and check stuff out today we're diving into north guard this is a game that's been out for a while from the developers of war tales and several other esteemed titles uh north guard is a game where you are building a viking colony and your goal it's kind of a mixture of something between like starcraft and like civ it's in between those two points and so anyways in north guard you pick a viking clan you land on a procedurally generated map and you try to survive and basically acquire an amount of fame that'll allow you to ascend before everybody else does and i actually streamed the game a couple of days ago and really really enjoyed myself so i figured i'd do a video on it real fast since like meh i need some content and honestly there's not a whole lot of stuff right now that i'm like yeah that needs to go on the channel right now and so anyways north guard i've got about six ten hours in the game i'm not very good at it i haven't played multiplayer like at all because i'm not a big multiplayer guy but i've got a rough grasp on it enough at least to introduce you guys to the game and so that's what we're gonna do out here today if after watching this you wanted to get the game for yourself you can look down below in the description to check that on out i'll have a link for you on top of that you can also find my twitch stream where you'll find the vod of me playing this game for about four hours unadulterated just getting my feet and learning how to play down below just in case you wanted to check that out as well uh so for right now we're gonna do a single player sandbox campaign i haven't had a chance to dive into the actual proper storyline campaign yet but many many people came in we had about a thousand people watching the stream and a lot of people came through and unsolicited and said like the story was really really good so i haven't had a chance to check that out yet i can't vouch for it but people did speak very very highly of it while i was streaming the game and so anyways there it is for right now there's two different modes we can play on there's the north guard mode which is like the classic way to play the game and there is the ragnarok mode which is basically the end of the world and like the map is all destroyed and on fire and everything else and you have limited access to resources makes things a little bit more intense we can pick our color we can also choose how hard the game is going to be through the world hostility and we can also take a look down here and you can choose what type of map you want to play on how big the map is going to be how many ai players are going to be involved in that map so on and so forth one thing i will say is that the ai doesn't really seem to bother with each other they seem to mostly just dog pile the player uh we'll talk about that a little bit later as to my experience with the way that they have the ai design but for right now just be forewarned that the ai doesn't really trifle with one another they mostly just mess with you and so the more you put on here the more troubles you're gonna have there are a number of ways to beat the game and actually win there's a domination victory that comes from killing everybody else there's a wisdom victory that's for you doing research and getting to an ultimate research there is a trade victory that you can set up by setting up giant like massive mega trade lanes uh there's the fame victory which is the standardized victory where you just do a whole bunch of things that are worthy of song and praise and then there's also map special where if you capture a certain node and you hold it for a certain amount of time you win the game as well and so there's a lot of different ways to eke out a w in this game but let's dive on in and we'll check out the clans now this is the first spot where i gotta warn people i think you get like a couple of clans by default but the rest are dlc i went into my own pocket and i bought all of them and i have played a large chunk of the clans now over playing the game like the entire weekend and i will say this some of the dlc clans are more worth it than the others so like in my opinion some of them like dragon which is right here the dragon clan very very unique way to play the game that flips the entire script on its head and has its very own distinct mechanic absolutely like worth the money but some of the other dlc clans are basically just kind of like remixes and they're not that unique compared to like the amount of money being charged for just one clan and so honestly i would go through all of the dlcs for this game and i would just kind of casually google what people think about each of the dlcs and whether or not they're worth it because there is a lot of dlc i think it cost me like 30 35 bucks to get all the extra clans and everything lined up as well as the base game and so just one thing to keep in mind is that this game is very very heavily dlc'd and like some people are not gonna like that business model at all and so i think that it deserves to be called at the beginning of the video i've liked most of the clans that i've purchased but some of them i've been kind of like meh shrug about i could take it or leave it and so you know they're kind of hit or miss i guess as of right now the clans that i am familiar with uh the ones that i have played i've played boar i've played bear i've played snake i've played dragon i've played kraken i've played squirrel and i've played rat but i haven't gotten all the rest of them because like your average campaign in this game is usually about two and a half hours long and like honestly there's just not enough hours in the day i tried to prep for this video the best that i possibly could and acquire as much knowledge and sort of meta about these factions as i could but i just couldn't get to them all before it was time to cut the video so anyways uh there are a couple of cool mechanics in here we'll probably go with something kind of standard uh just because people are probably gonna go for the standard victories before they go for any of the more specialized clans that try to do interesting uh things with their mechanics and so anyways i'll probably go with either the clan of the boar or the clan of the bear lots of like be at the beginning are at the end energy right now i think we'll probably go with bear clan that sounds pretty good so basically the bear clan is really good in the winter time they don't use as many resources they have a bear that they can summon that will just run around and protect their territory which is great for the early game it also produces food if it's near a fish node which is like great because you can park it over there when it's not being used and then apparently we get stronger during the winter rather than getting weaker in a certain respect normally you don't want to wage war in the winter in this game unless you have very specific talents picked or very specific like specific research is picked but these guys i guess are pretty good uh if we have kaija or a armored bear or shield maiden in the zone our production goes up the bear awakens so we get three fame for an enemy killed in a zone with the shield maiden and then our military units get stronger based on the amount of fame that we have and then kaiju the armored bear can now go into enemy territory once we get up to 500. every faction has a relic that they can forge we have the scabbard of graham apparently enemies hit by grammar frozen along with an area around them and gives you more attack power and defense to your shield maidens sounds pretty cool let's dive on in alright so here we are in bear clan territory now this game doesn't have push to pause that's an important thing to this is an old school rts where there is no refuge and no safety from the passage of time you're not going to be able to pause things up like they are billions style in order to catch a breather figure out what you're doing but there is a lot of stuff for me to explain and talk about and so i may just pause like this from time to time so that i can explain things as i'm doing them but in the early game what you really need to worry about is you want to get your economy set up so i like to build a house first these are peasants peasants will gather food if they don't have another job and they will build buildings if there is a building project in the area that needs to be taken care of every single tile has a limited amount of buildings that you can put on it as denoted right here you can also develop this land to make it better at the top we've got happiness this influences our population growth and how fast we generate new villagers we have our wood that's for buildings we have food which is for feeding our people and also for holding feasts which will give you a bunch of fame we have our pop cap over here we have our iron which is for permanent upgrades for the rest of the game we have stone which is for upgrading buildings to level two and we have money which is for hiring and upgrading and just about everything this is the size of our warband cap this is our xp every single unit you kill in combat will give you xp when you get to certain thresholds you level up on a talent tree and then we've got our lore over here which is how you get a research victory this is effectively for all intents and purposes research now let's go ahead and take one of these guys and we'll assign them to wood shopping so that we are not losing wood as of right now we want to make sure that when you're in the icy frosty lands of viking you know attacks and defenses and everything else you want your wood to be strong over here we're going to need a scout camp as well you can only clear the fog of war by having scouts scout will go out and periodically he will sit here for like 15 seconds and he'll basically look off into the distance and it will expose these tiles and so we need to get that done so that we can get a rough idea where we exist in the meta and what we want to do let's go ahead and get a scout up and running right there our food is still net positive there's a timeline down here during the normal seasons you harvest and gather normally during the winter seasons you have much more drain on food and much more drain on wood on top of being weaker in combat and so the game's got kind of like this cyclical push and pull between you and the enemy factions like if you've got a lot of bonuses you probably want to attack in the winter while they're weak but if you don't have those bonuses you probably want to wage most of your war in the normal kind of daylight seasons over here we've got a stone node that's good but other than that there's only a shipwreck over there we can get a bunch of wood from the shipwreck and i think we get gold from it as well yeah and so we can look into that in just a minute i'm kind of going to casually let my population grow while we scout things out and then i'll give you a brief synopsis of what my battle plan is going forward so from the looks of it we have a pretty decent map in front of us right now uh we've got basically all fame nodes and all really good stuff on each side of us and so we'll want to take advantage of that the downside is that our map does not have a whole lot of food on it so while we're going to be able to get a lot of fame and a lot of money by clearing out all of these tombs and all of these shipwrecks the downside is we are going to struggle with food production that's just going to be a fact of our playthrough is that we don't have a lot of food nodes available i was hoping that there would be more fish or some fertile land around here so that we could farm but alas that was not the case so we want to get this tile about as soon as possible and so i'm going to build a training camp that way we can make warriors so i'll get that going real fast we need to wipe out this one wolf over here and we need to colonize this tile that way our scout can get into that tomb and then on top of that we can also build a fishery right here so that we can start fishing these out this will also allow us to summon our bears so that we can park it inside of the area where the fish are which will help out with our food production because as i said previously we are going to be very very low on vittles i i think that we're going to be a very skinny colony from the layout of the land so far it's gonna be tough to get the things that we need and so we're gonna need to pivot to making a lot of money i think so that we can buy food unless this tile right here just has a ridiculous amount of tasty goodies on it we are under attack right now there's a wolf that has come into our territory and is beating on us luckily all of our villagers are weaponized so they're gonna go over here and fight that guy so it shouldn't be too much of a problem no fertile ground on that side and so yeah this is gonna be a rough map this is gonna be a tough one let's go ahead and we will summon the bear so there is our bear and our bear can actually go into neutral territories and can fight with some of these wolves and so that's gonna give us a nice little boost to our early game military supremacy so off she goes kaiju the bear taking care of business over here the wolf is down so we're going to grab this territory for ourselves it's going to cost us 20 food as you can see our food production went up by two because we've got the bear parked in the area where there are a bunch of wolves as soon as he's done clearing that on out we'll go ahead and take kaija over here here and probably grab these sheep maybe i think that sounds like a good idea we may have fertile ground right here actually that's a hunting tile so we're going to want to grab this one too so basically we want to grab this entire expanse i think and there's not going to be a lot of ways to fight around that let's go and i'm going to was there anything actually on that tile right there there's not and so i would like to grab this tile too oh that's a really good tile right there it's also got a vetter full near on it a vetter full near is basically a free scout so better fall near if you heal better full near cause it's wounded right now this great eagle will fly around and scout for you so that you don't need a scout anymore and she can't get wounded she can't get hurt uh all that kind of stuff she just kind of does her own thing she also basically gives us a free technology for healing her so lots and lots of good options here i'm going to clear this wolf out so that we're no longer taking attacks from this side sheep are a specialized resource you can place them in any zone that you want and they reduce the need for firewood in a given zone by 20 wherever they're parked and so that's another thing to kind of keep lined up uh sir if i can get you to come over here and i can get you to build a fishery that'd be fantastic so there it is get that fishery done and then we'll have two fishermen over here we'll try to upgrade that as soon as possible so that we'll have three fishermen on this tile and then we'll use the money that we're getting out of here probably to raise an army and to go in and defeat this bear over here so that we can claim that territory food's looking okay for right now so i think we can probably get away with colonizing this tile as well so that we have lots of early game money coming in our fisherman is done so we'll go ahead and throw some of these guys in here to make them fishermen because they get an extra food being a fisherman versus when they're just gathering and foraging around there we go so our food's up to 11 we're not really particularly doing anything right now so i'm gonna park kaiju over here just to get that extra food there it is so 13 food kai just parked we're probably going to get attacked from this direction anyways because there's a wolf den on this side and so it's a good idea to have her over here i would like to grab that territory but i think we're gonna need one more warrior before i do it alright so we've done that we got a hundred bucks and fifty lore inside of here we can get sharp axes and increase our wood cutters we can make ourselves mine better or we can raise our military's attack power by 20 i think i'm going to go for the sharp axes for right now and focus on my economy and then i'm gonna come down here and we're just gonna fight this bear and see if our bear is better than their bear i want i want my bear to be better uh you stop scouting come over here and get this as well i'm trying to get a lot of early game bonuses right now i am gonna have to build a house pretty soon in order to keep our pop cap up and so they are actively fighting over here and the worst case scenario is we have kaiju pull back when kaiju gets low on health and have her regenerate just inside this zone and then we come back and finish off the bears so that we can get this zoned for the hunting nodes this right here generates research if we attach a peasant to it they're like oh yes i look upon the great stone phallus the mysteries of the universe have been revealed to me and so we probably need to do that as well let me grab a villager and bring him on over here and we're going to need another house on this side because we are not producing population right now and i would like to be producing population kaiju come on back and i'm going to have you camp out inside this zone while you regenerate and then we'll come back and fight this bear in just a minute kaiju should regenerate faster than that bear because it's just a wild bear and kaija has a natural regeneration boost and so hopefully it works out okay once that house is built i actually missed time to this i should have had this house ready to go before we hit our pop cap but unfortunately i did not the other option is we can only have three buildings over here so we got to decide what the third building's gonna be i would recommend that the third building be a healer hut the healer hut allows all units in your territory that are damaged to regenerate while they're just sitting around and if there's nobody to heal the the healers they will turn into gatherers and just add to your food supply so they're not a bad thing to have around we also want to get early game stones so i kind of want to grab that over there i need this bear to go away over here though because i want that other food node this food node right here is going to be one of the only things that keeps us alive as we get further on into the game in the meantime we will colonize that tile right there hopefully there's no neutral factions that are just rattling around along the edges we've got another lure right here i'm gonna use it to reduce my my food cost for colonizing because as of right now we are doing a lot of colonizing and we are gathering a lot of food right after i said that we weren't going to be gathering a lot of food kaija's ready to go so we're going to bring her on back in here and she's going to fight this bear kill that bear off as you can see we've been getting xp for every kill that we've knocked out and after we kill this bear we'll colonize this we'll consolidate our territories so that we don't have like ugliness on our back porch and then we will figure out where we want to go from there but for right now the bear brawl is upon us so let us get our brawling finished off okay so the enemy has been defeated and this land is now open for grabs i'm gonna go ahead and get it so that we get better full near we get a new source of food and then on top of that we also get a little bit more building space where we can put down stuff for people to do i'm gonna bring a peasant over here nice and early and we are going to get a hunting lodge that's going to be deployed right now it looks like we're already being invaded by wolves so we're going to have to defend this territory it's going gonna be something we positively just can't get around our lure master's over here doing his thing so that should give us a nice boost the hundred lure that we're about to get from healing vetter fall near is gonna be really good for us as well the only downside is oh we've got the mine done over here too go ahead and gather up some of that stone for me you jabroni go ahead and get it it's about to get stoney jabronis let's do this thing uh where is my scout my scout needs to come back and needs to scavenge that boat over there for money and for wood instead of expanding the map tiles we do want to take out these wolf dens over here uh it looks like there's a neutral faction right here so we're going to get into a little bit of trouble for doing it there are neutral factions on the map people like the elves people like the yotens uh there are a bunch of neutral factions around that you're gonna have to contend with as the game goes along somebody found the gate of hellheim which is a bummer that's the endgame victory criteria if you hold the gate of helheim for long enough uh you win effectively and so that's not great that somebody has already found it don't worry about the ai being ahead of you once we find the ai they're going to have a higher score than we do they're going to do that pretty consistently the reason why is that the game cheats the ai cheats like like hell if you want to see how the ai cheats i strongly recommend you leave them with like two tiles and then surround them on all sides with an army and just watch how fast they rebuild even though they don't have the economy or the land to do it the game basically draws from sieve in that way i just held a feast uh feasts give you a big boost to your morale they also give you some fame and they give you a whole bunch of production while you're out and about and so you should be popping feasts whenever you can i'm going to go ahead and increase my your nonsense clan members heal during winter and allied territory let's go ahead and make our unit stronger i'd like for my bear to be a little bit tougher that's going to give her an extra two attack power and make her a little bit nastier to fight with enemies in the meantime we're also going to snatch this land over here so that we're consolidating our territory i'll probably use that land over there we're being invaded okay little lore master run to the neighboring tile flee i'll protect you with my powerful bear arms and down goes the woof no more wolf to be dealt with put the lure master back on the lure stone after protecting him we've got a little bit of foggy business going on right now that's a bummer i wish that we did not have foggy business but we do have stone coming in which is great because if we can get enough of that put together we can upgrade our longhouse right here in the center and that will allow us to get level two upgrades on our other buildings which will let us level up our houses to get more pop cap and things like that because our pop cap is rattling along right now 200 wood and 100 gold from the shipwreck one more stone and we can upgrade this central building i'm going to do that post haste tooth suite whatever word you want to use vetter folnier has not been healed yet which i'm concerned about but that's life i'd like to wipe out this wolf den over here it looks like there's only three wolves in the zone and that will secure our borders and give us a little bit of fame to boot he's scouting over on that side okay i don't like the rainy weather the rainy weather blocks my line of sight really badly tends to annoy me now we've got a little bit extra population cap from upgrading that now and now we can upgrade our resource production buildings a little bit which i think will be really really helpful our food production is nice right now we could do another feast to get another 20 fame and bump us up to thane don't know if i want to do it right now or if i want to pop a feast like when we're going through like a bad winter or a blizzard or something we do have iron over there i don't know which wolf camp i want to take out first probably this one yeah let's take out this wolf camp first i think that's going to be the first thing that i go for i'm going to wait for some more stone to come in rats have been reported we need to store our food in silos and protect against disease that's a bummer kind of hate everything about that uh rats coming in right as winter's about to strike is going to be really really rough it's probably going to tap us out on a lot of our resources but i suppose we can get a silo in somewhere i'm gonna develop this zone to get an extra tile right here we'll bring over one of the villagers and we will put in a food silo like right over there just to protect our food a little bit from the rats we will colonize this oh yeah there's dwarves nearby and they get upset if we colonize this um i need the fame so i'm just gonna do it anyways i'm not going to worry about the diplomatic let back or the diplomatic setback i'm just going to do it and we'll bargain with the dwarves later all right so there it is we are now a thane and so we can both look or we can boost local production pretty easily by just having our bear around and so there it is as you can see production is now much better in these areas and as we wait for the rat swarm to really really cause problems for us i think we're just gonna have to wait it out we will want to assign a second person to be a healer uh now that the rats are coming because everybody's gonna lose a little bit of health from disease as that goes along our building upkeep is getting kind of bad so we are going to want to look for alternative methods to get our economy short away and the way that i would do it is let's start raiding i'm going to put in a viking a viking harbor over here now we want to move these sheep now that we own them to the areas that are heaviest populated where's the other sheep at there it is uh we want the sheep to be in this zone because it lowers our overhead by 20 once winter gets here and so that's 40 overhead reduced in the area that has the most buildings and so that's definitely gonna help out we're gonna have these guys go out and raid for fame and raid for money that should help out a little bit with our financial situation protector of the land uh gain one happiness per zone with at least one military camp that's not bad i will probably go for mining efficiency so that we can get to shipbuilding real fast i don't know the actual like efficient build order for bear clan i don't play online or anything else like that i just play against like the ai and so it'll be fine better full near is almost good to go which is great oh we are going to want to upgrade the hunter's lodge sooner rather than later there goes vetter folnier so we got a hundred lore for healing the great bird and now the great birds gonna fly off and start scouting territories for us easy peasy lemon squeezy i'm gonna send people out to go raid and in raiding we want to raid for fame and we want to raid for money uh the dwarves are attacking me right now which is a bummer we're gonna go ahead and go deal with them real fast our bears should be able to handle one dwarf no problem the rats have arrived as you can see and so now we are dealing with rats i don't know when the rats are going to end but it's kind of a bummer so we're going to boost up everybody's happiness with a feast real fast and that's going to totally like mash out our production everybody's sick so our happiness is going to take a little bit of a hit right now the only thing you have to worry about in this case is that like all of the other factions are dealing with this as well in a multiplayer game it would be fine because everybody is taking the same l in a single player game the ai basically shrugs this off like it doesn't matter and they don't care our mine has been tapped out so that's good we're going to go ahead and reassign these guys to be peasants real fast so that our food production goes back up we are under attack so unfortunately there ain't no risk for the wicked kaiju is going to have to get over here and fight with this wolf otherwise we're going to lose that territory and we're going to take a happiness debuff i believe that my healers are doing their best right now to keep people alive but [Music] unfortunately there's not a whole lot that we can do here even my c raiders are sick phil's ripper rooney's all right so the invasions are done everything's been taken care of better fullnear is scouting for me which is great food is still coming in so regardless of how poorly this is going right now we should be okay going into winter because even while not feasting we seem to have a great deal oh actually the rat storm is over huzzah good for us uh we're gonna go for shipbuilding to get our economy up with c raiders and then we're gonna take one of these extra villagers put them on the sea raider building we have a lot of stone right now so i would probably upgrade one house and i would upgrade a fishing hut as well so that we can get better food because that allows us to put one more fisherman inside the building actually we've got room for one more hunter as well so let's go ahead and put another hunter inside of there and the bad news is this is about all the food that we're gonna have for the foreseeable future unfortunately that being said after getting hit by rats and going into our second winter we seem to be in good shape i think we're gonna have to get our coins economy all nice and taken care of but other than that i'm feeling pretty happy about where we're at right now i'm not that upset about the land that we are currently occupying so let's get a beer brewery up we've got to get the happiness of our people taken care of so we'll move that over to there and once we've got the beer brewery up the other thing that we are going to need is we are going to need a trading post so we'll put a trading post over there as well uh that'll allow us to boost up our crowns that we're bringing in per period on top of that we're also going to want to think about getting a second wood chopper wherever that'll fit i would suggest over here since we have no buildings deployed just yet but you know that's up to where you want to put it in your personal playthrough for me i think this is the spot for it or maybe this is the spot for it we've got lots and lots of land left to build and so honestly it may not have been worth it to actually go in and produce i thought we were maxed out on food we can have 800 food because of the silo over here so we're all right now we're going to let them build these up over here both these peasants are going to become brewers that'll boost our happiness up thus generating further villagers through the power of liquor and so there you go we now have a 6.4 which means that if you watch this we'll actually jump two percent at a time from here to there looks like we found the clan of the rat we are defeating the clan of the rat right now we're ahead of them in the fame race that's weird though because the clan of the rat can't get fame as their special mechanic so that's very very weird that that clan of the rat right there oh never mind it's not clan of the rat it's clan of it's clan of the snake that can't generate fame never mind i take it back i'm stupid all right so we are generating fame right now every single time this longboat comes out and comes back we get a little bit of fame and then on top of that we're getting a little bit of money for it uh the trading post is done which is fantastic we're gonna go ahead and put some traders in so that we generate a little bit more cash money cheddar stacks and so we're getting about five crowns at a time right now we are going to want to conquer this wolf den over here for the extra fame and we are going to want to take out these draugr over here so that we can get the free money from raiding that tomb right there i think how beat up is my scout have my scout come back and get healed i'd also like to get some miners over here to get the rest of that stone for like level two upgrades we are very much at war right now oh okay i see what's happening here red has already pushed up against them alright and there's the gates of helheim right there nobody's taken it yet uh vetter folnier is doing a great job at scouting out my territory really appreciate that with the extra food let's go ahead and feast again we have lots and lots of food surplus so the feast fame is gonna be nice i'd like to get another wood chopper down here so let's take a peasant and we'll put them on the job of building this building i think we're probably gonna need another house or two down here as well so i'm not gonna shy away from that we'll go ahead and actually i'll probably pop down two houses right here my territory is under attackies oh no not my territory uh they should be fine i think the traitor and yeah they should kill them before my trader gets murdered should be fine now we don't have to move kaiju around we can just keep our production boost all right uh other things so woodcutter's lodge has nobody working inside of it right now let's go ahead and boost that up ever so slightly because wood is experiencing a bit of a deficit for right now and i would like for it to be a little bit better i mean our food is getting back down towards neutral territory a little bit lower than i'd like it to be but we've got an ace in the hole we can always sacrifice a couple of these sheep over here to refill the food stocks if we need to i think i really need to take this before red steals it that's kind of where i'm at right now i'm gonna send kaija over we need to capture this before before red gets to it i'd like these two tiles right here for the extra fame and for the extra stone and for the extra everything else so i think i'm gonna try to capture now rather than wait till later we still haven't made contact with the third faction which is kind of a bummer but it's okay we'll survive it yep you go ahead and play a game of whack-a-woof and then i will claim this territory for my own you'll heal up then we'll go fight some draugr and then i think that'll actually be the sum finale of our territory i'm actually pretty happy with what we hold right now and in colonizing this that's five more stone plus another grip of fame which is fantastic there we go so we have now made it up to 425 fame right now that's a lot of fame that's the good stuff i would like to get a little bit more research going just to max out my trees asap but it hasn't been necessary so far if i have him come back over here will my healers possibly like heal this person i guess they're working on the bear right now not much more to go off of than that there's another research though uh let's go ahead and we will get oh i don't know let's take recruitment so that our population grows a little bit faster and then we'll probably take harpoons next oh yeah we get a blessing nice uh so let's go ahead and i'm gonna take the happiness boost i think because we're kind of playing a population game right now and i think we're gonna need it normally i would take the 50 nerf to the amount of wood and the amount of food that we're going to use up in the winter time but with where we're at right now i'm actually pretty okay and happy with it you go fight these guys if you can kill off just a couple of them i'll be really happy with you i don't think she's gonna be able to get all of them before she goes down but she should be able to get at least like one or two before her wounds overtake her yeah it looks like one is going to be the amount here okay retreat back into our territory they won't follow you'll heal up and we'll just keep sniping draugr there's no draugr mound over here or like draugr barrow and so we shouldn't have to worry about them respawning it should be a limited problem that we have to deal with for right now we have enough for another feast although going into winter i don't know if we want to do that we have an event coming up where the dwarves want us to mine gems for them i'll probably just ignore that i don't know it doesn't seem pertinent for right now it doesn't seem intensely like it needs to get done right this second okay so there's leif and leif is actually like hot on our tail right now we are not beating leif at the moment and i would like to beat leif what buildings do we have up next we've got four three out of four right there i could raid for more fame we could get the offering well and put that down next to yoten territory i think that's a strong play if we can make allies out of the yoten they will actually join us in battle and we will have yotan of our own that we can effectively use to bolster our troops and since i haven't gone in super hard on having a military just yet that may actually be just the thing to make us a little bit more successful and so i am going to go ahead and get the offering well over here let's go ahead and wipe out another draugr if we've got time to do it yeah looks like that fight's going okay but this is northgard i like the game a lot um i'm not okay the things i don't like about it is the ai cheats pretty aggressively in single player mode um and that can be a little bit immersion and frustration breaking uh like i also don't like that they only focus on the player and they like never mess with each other from what i've seen so far in my 10 hours of playing it's fairly obvious that this game was designed for the single player campaign and also kind of for the multiplayer experience but like i don't really do multiplayer and so i don't really worry about it too much where are we under attack at uh we should be fine over here i don't think we'll have to do too much yeah they'll take care of that wolf right there and then we'll be good oh yeah there's the gemstones right there if you wanted to get crazy and mine them and then what you do is you set up a trade lane inside of your trading place over here and you send the gemstones to the dwarves and they will reward you with reputation and iron and stone in return i don't know if i want to bother with it i don't know if it's a principal concern for me right now i'm maxed out on food so we're gonna go ahead and take this this guy is no longer doing anything and so i'm gonna go ahead and draw him back into a territory where he can actually do something yeah come be a wood chopper it's fine and then where's my scout at scout stop scouting i want you to grab that node for me but yeah north guard it's a game that's got really high production values everything runs smoothly i've had no bugs everything is fantastic it's a lot of fun but the two things is the dlc model can be kind of hit or miss some of them are much more worth it than others and then on top of that the ai could be improved in a great deal in order to make the single-player sandbox experience a little bit more satisfying uh that's my two observations so far but other than that i've been having a blast with it my name is splattercat i sit through the pile to find what's worthwhile in the world of indie games every single day so you don't have to today up on the chopping block we had ourselves a little bit of the old uh north guard tomorrow we will have something else i appreciate you guys stopping in and hanging out with me but i'll be back tomorrow with something hot fresh off the indie skillet thanks for swinging through bye everybody

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Id: 5_UMN594R1M

Length: 37min 7sec (2227 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 31 2022