In order to further explore and keep your warriors intact, you’ll need a Healer’s Hut, which will allow you heal up your units. You’ll need to train up some warriors and then take out the baddies. In order to further your settlement’s territory, you’ll need to take over new sectors, many of which will have enemies.
It’s also mentioned that organizing feasts can help give a major bonus to your villagers to help complete more tasks and upgrade your stuff quickly. However, you’ll need 5 iron to make that happen, and iron is difficult to come across. You can also upgrade and improve your tools by by clicking on Improve Tools. The silo can be used to store food that your hunters gather, this way you can survive through the winter with a lot of stored food. Use the stone and wood to upgrade your Town Hall so that you can then build a Silo. So turn some villagers into miners so that you can gather up stone resources. In order to survive through winter, you’ll need to gather up food storage. Once you colonize a sector that has deer or other animals, you’ll want to build a Hunter’s Lodge so that you can begin to hunt animals and gather up food resources. Additionally, if an NPC is not working be sure to click on the NPC and right click a structure to force them to build or help out other NPCs. With wood, you’ll be able to make more wooden structures, including fishing places and training camps. Once you discover new territory, use your scout to colonize the new area. Now, in Northgard the maps randomly generate, so you’ll need to scout different areas every time you start a new map. You’ll also want to put down a Town Hall to spawn more villagers once their happiness reach a certain level, and a Woodcutter’s Lodge so that they can become woodcutters and harvest wood from the nearby forests. You’ll want to quickly put down a Scout Camp as quickly as possible so that your villagers can train to become scouts and then uncover the fog of war and discover new areas to explore. So you have move fast and move swift when it comes to building up your settlement in Northgard. You can’t strategize, plot and build while the game is paused. One of the things that’s mentioned in the video is that the pause button in Northgard is an actual pause button. Each clan has its own bonus and abilities, depending on what your style of play you prefer. The three clans include Fenrir, Eikthyrnir and Heidrun.
In Early Access there are three different clans, but in the full version they plan on having a total of five clans. Having more AI opponents means it will be tougher competition for you. Similar to the game Constructor you can also choose how many AI opponents you face off against during a round if you choose to do a single-player mode. There is a campaign mode, a single-player and a multiplayer mode.
GrayStillPlays offers a bit of commentary while walking gamers through the basics of Shiro Games’ new strategy title.
There’s a series of episodic videos being posted online by various YouTubers, and one of which that goes into detail of how to get your settlement up and running quickly.