Start your Northgard game right! Beginners Build Guide!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Didn't have time to make a hilarious intro! What Clan should I make a specific guide for? Stag or Bear?

[@armand3566]

I would have build a 2nd woodcutter's lodge for winter Unlike food, wood production isn't decreased during winter So it was better to produce more wood with 3 or 4 woodcutters during winter Same for your scout, i would have use this villager to produce food instead of scouting during summer, then switch to scouting in december

[@Bragison8]

The colonisation tech only reduces the cost for one area, so pretty much a complete waste to get it early.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

@@armand3566 I see what you mean! Focusing on scouting initial tiles then dropping scouting to prep for winter. I have heard that a few times after posting this video. What steps would you take after building the 2nd woodcutter's? And then buildings after the first winter?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

@@Bragison8 it does apply to every tile after getting that lore. northgard.fandom.com/wiki/Colonization maps out the amount of food you will need with and without the lore. Thanks for the comment!

[@armand3566]

​@@CaffeinatedDad In winter, i would advise to do everything except producing food So mining stone or iron, scouting, wood & gold production I'm not a bear main, but i think you should build a 2nd food building after winter Then focus on upgrades : - mine stone to up townhall > food prod > gold income - mine iron to up food > sailors > warband As soon as your food production is good, you focus on getting gold, so : - building a 2nd dock - upgrading both of them If you have 6 sailors active at the beginning of 801 winter, you are fine for 802 As bear, i would also higly recommend to start forging the relic in 801 and save iron for that Finally, you build your camps late 801/early 802 to get 10+ warband capacity As bear, you can build some camps earlier with Protector of the Land if you need some extra happiness Keep in mind that this is viable for team games but in FFA, you can spend more time on your economy (mining more stone/iron for more upgrades) I hope that I've been helpful :) Thank you for the video, your tutorial is already great to learn beginners how to play NG ^^

[@joemarvel4270]

I don't think I've seen any of your videos before, and I only made it about 2 seconds into this video before I subscribed, because I, too, am a caffeinated gamer dad. Respect, brother

[@CaffeinatedDad]

hey man we are all out here surviving! thanks buddy!

[@taher9358]

Wow such an in depth walk through with a live demonstrative example. I really appreciate that, I just downloaded it on my iPhone, never played it before and I already love it!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Don't play it that much anymore but I am glad you enjoyed the guide! the game is fantastically polished and the developer shiro games is super responsive!

[@makkar7]

None of the other Northgard Beginners clips i tried made any sense. I'd to stop in the midst of this clip jus to hit that Like :D Appreciate your work, good sire!! Cheers!

[@astralwyrm3787]

I'm interested in trying to start my game this way. I often throw down two woodcutters as early as possible and try to rush down the bottom research line since it has shipbuilding and carpenter's mastery. The only glaring flaw I see in the order at least from this video's example is that mining efficiency would have seen some use coming second where as colonisation did nothing until you already had your third research. Thanks for the video.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

This was really meant to be for the casual player who ran into issues through the first winter really. Of course once you understand the flow of the game you can definitely aim for more strategic lores and such but otherwise I do appreciate your kind words! Thank you!

[@metalhead7500]

Ths is the first vid i watch from you, and you had had me at "caffeinated dad",

[@CaffeinatedDad]

hey cheers Buddy! enjoy that sweet bean juice!

[@dhryan44]

I like this guide, but I followed because your name is the best. I too, am a caffeinated dad (a single dad to boot). Though mine are all adults now. Great video!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Hey thanks! From one Caffeinated Dad to another!

[@Mattybot3000]

Thank you for this amazing guide! This game is so frustrating as one wrong placement and the whole game is effed.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

thats the problem that i had! the video had to be made!

[@FaheemProductions]

I have started playing this game after 3 years. Last time I played it was during the summer of 2019. Now I have started playing this game after my graduation. This game is quite similar to AoE 2 but its system is different. The beginner's guide is well explained and organized in your video. I love playing Northgard. Thanks!! ❤

[@CaffeinatedDad]

thank you so much for your kind words! I really do love this game and I think it has one of the best RTS feels out there!

[@FaheemProductions]

@@CaffeinatedDad You are most welcome. I am going to play Chapter 8 and 9 tonight.

[@Swwatter]

This is nothing like AoE 2. The only similarity is that both games are RTS's.

[@sebaldus5933]

Thx for the Video. It improved my play alot. But one thing i saw ist that you put your mining Not directly next to the stone for shorter ways. Same goes with Silos.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

the game is amazing, it just takes some time and what you saw here was the sum of my failing knowledge lol

[@johnmoshier3497]

I thought that was just an old trick that became outdated at some point

[@Redrockets23]

Thanks for this. I always have problem with food especially when winter hits. gonna try that build order you suggested and focus more on economy. also a question: when is it necessary to build a healer? I tried ignoring healers before, but when my food ran out everyone got sick and since I don't have a healer, my entire city is suffering lol.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Generally when you have 2 plus wounded/sick people. Some more advance strats would have you actually sacrifice your weakened village people because its a bit easier to replenish rather than wait for healer. Typically I try to have one about the 7 minute mark. Thanks for commenting!

[@MistaM1nd]

@@CaffeinatedDadI got a follow up question if you don't mind: How do you sacrifice villagers? Do you just have to be "lucky" and wait for some wolves to attack you so that you can then sacrifice them or is there another way?

[@ohyeah8224]

thanks for this, just started playing yesterday and while I was understanding the mechanics of the game I found I was still having trouble with either food or coin early on which translated mid and late game into complete trash lol. I would get destroyed at the end when they start invading. Quick question though, when events like earthquake or rats consuming food happen does it happen to EVERYONE or is the event different for each player?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Great question! This happens to everyone! It is not isolated to a single player. Northgard is great and highly recommend it to all RTS lovers!

[@Matt_the_pirate]

Great guide, not moving Kaija to the fish tile to heal and forage was mildly annoying tho :v

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I'm fighting for my life out here!

[@josevminier]

Yeah the bear will give you extra food and heal itself if you move him to fish tile.but I guess he didn't know that at that moment.

[@FunnyFavor]

Thank you for the helpful video! I personally start with woodcutting on the first tile if I want to go for rapid building creation (and if I'm willing to loose a few crowns in the process most likely)

[@CaffeinatedDad]

of course there is wonderful aggressive methods you can take, but this was meant to be a simple here you go run with it build! thank you for your comment!

[@BarelyFocused]

Yoo just found this channel and I love the branding! Are your hats available for sale somewhere? As a gaming dad that also loves coffee that hat is perfect lol

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Actually, My sister made me a few hats (not professionally, but as a hobby) I may try to sell them! definitely will make an announcement when I have a way of sending them off!

[@Wenedi]

I would love to see a dragon clan guide. The clan seems much more challenging than the rest and actually doing good with him is ridiculously hard in my experience :/

[@CaffeinatedDad]

About as true facts as they come. The games as dragon (before recent patch) has ways felt underwhelming. Dragons on the list to make after horse!

[@ZAMINA1985]

I thought this was well organised and explained. Kudos.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Thank you! I plan on having a few build paths and explanations in the future!

[@RohanSateejTV]

Thanks mate, I'm gonna try this. So far I've been struggling a lot in this game haha!

[@RohanSateejTV]

Quick update.. I just got my first win using this strategy! :D

[@CaffeinatedDad]

game is tough as nails tbh glad you got your first win!

[@christbanner3219]

Great video, thanks. How do you actually colonise? I know it needs food, but how exactly?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

There is a button to press in the bottom right when you are on an unowned tile!

[@rinkashikachi]

I probably missed this somehow, but can you explain why I should build stuff outside of my starting tile? What am I saving all this space for?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

It depends on how you want to build your tiles. You certainly can focus purely on your main tile then build out but I like to evenly spread as I go

[@joramhartmann7101]

I think a second Woodcutter ist a must. You have extra workers who only collect food. I would send them chopping Wood to build Silos instead of collecting food by hand

[@CaffeinatedDad]

admittedly when I made the video I made my own mistakes. but this was meant to be just a simple guide on establishing a base fairly quickly. A more advanced guide would cover in detail the maximization of the build orders!

[@ghostlightx9005]

Yup, in general I feel the build order should almost always be: Scout, House, Woodcutter, Food, House, Docs, Woodcutter 2, then whatever you need most (Training Camp usually). Either way I am 100% sure you want a Woodcutter built as your 3rd building, always.

[@DrHanibalJones]

Thanks for the Guide :)

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Happy to help!

[@steezyalejos5905]

i have been trying to get past my second stone upgrade but i just fall into hungry at certain winter and never recover :( thanks for the guide.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

there is a fine dance that you have to play to do this right. I tend to play more conservative during games as I feel it works out to be the best

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

all im learning from this start is am i trying to move too fast? i usually go stag and just build scouts and woodshack like immediately in the townhall tile but then you kind of were a bit more reserved on where you put your buildings and even my friend is a bit more reserved. am i wrong for just wanting to get things rolling?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

If you can move faster than absolutely move faster! I set this build guise up to be an ease in for players early on as they were learning the game

[@mark250]

keep running out of food and wood in like year 3 despite having 4 sources of food, fox silos and woodcutters?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

sometimes it becomes better suited to have a smaller population with negative happiness as it'll stop unnecessary growth to pressure you into needing more food and wood. what type of victory you are looking to have also plays a huge amount into it.

[@michaellevine529]

Awesome explanation.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

happy to help!

[@gurgodarkk]

This makes sense, I've always compared Northgard kinda to Starcraft

[@Al_Sayid_Sanad]

So if I need food do I just unassign the villagers to gather ?I thought the only way to get food was to have them in a food producing building

[@CaffeinatedDad]

They forage for food when not assigned to any production (basically unless told otherwise they will always produce food although small) if you are in a bad spot like low food or about to hit a blizzard assigning excess production like krown or lore to the town hall or to houses should help you out!

[@mshambaPGrated]

Just got this on steam today!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Its a Fantastic Game! I have a subchannel that I plan on making content again for it! Caffeinated Plays!

[@yuritatsumicom]

I am currently doing conquest for wolf clan. I am struggling to kill three wyverns before others. Would you please help me what build orders will be good for this situation?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Personally i'd say that your best bet would be to play aggresively before the first winter. Wolf Clan tends to fall off later in game and if you cannot get the berserker and and few warriors out to clear early then itll be trouble.

[@yuritatsumicom]

@@CaffeinatedDad I have cleared before reading this. Thanks for advice.

[@sysghost]

Using two scouts to discover the same area? does that accelerate the discovery rate? My strategy is to have scouts go in different directions.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Yes! Two scouts on the Same tile accelerate the discovery speed

[@subgoose9730]

Hi thanks for making this guide! As a new player, should I put 1 or 2 villagers as scouts in the early game?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Generally, scouting for the surrounding tiles near your town hall would be your first priority and two scouts would get this done very fast. So yes I'd recommend two. Once they get their surrounding tiles done it ends up being more beneficial to have them gather food as villagers during the summer and then back to scouting during winter.

[@subgoose9730]

@@CaffeinatedDad Great thank you!!

[@JMark4]

Always leave kaija on the fishing camp tile.

[@simscity4561]

Have you ever played total war medieval 2 ? And if so is it like this game economy based warfare game and would you suggest it as well is it similar to this game thanks

[@CaffeinatedDad]

total war medieval 2 is vastly different in many ways but building and maintaining an army in Northgard is more difficult than in medieval. medieval 2 is more about building towns, capture new towns, or pillage them and win fights!

[@yoursmartmoneytips]

Please record audio at higher volume. Very hard to hear, even with volume all the way up. Thx

[@CaffeinatedDad]

earlier videos suffered a bit of poorly balanced audios...

[@IZE208]

Hey idk if you know this if you click i on your keyboard it shows floating above each tile what they have like food and stone and enemy number if it's like wolves

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I.......... honestly did not know and it had been so long that I was too afraid to ask lol

[@IZE208]

@@CaffeinatedDad lmao i was like why is he clicking on each tile?? Don't worry homie i got you. Spread the knowledge. Im still being murdered really fast in online but it's getting better watching your vids hahaha thanks.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

@@IZE208 thanks! I learn something New every day! Have a non traditional snake clan build bid coming out today

[@EneaSus]

im looking for a gestional game but more focused on planning attacks, can you help me?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I've heard Company of Heroes 1 - 2 are better in this aspect. If you want more of a coordinated game I would always suggest Total War Series!

[@dr.kibria3678]

Shouldn’t you put the Bear near pond to heal him??!!

[@johnnyrivas2619]

So we shouldn't start with silos early on? I figured the food production would make them worth it. When DO we start using silos, then?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Typically, you don't need silos super early on (10%) increase isn't as beneficial as it sounds unless there is two food nodes on the same tile. Usually if you go for say upgraded buildings it works out a lot better as far as utilization. That changes if your Stag clan because they work out better with silos (lore trees)

[@Grubbadub]

Colonize first tile, then third tile?

[@chriswallace7247]

I thought the bear heals and helps increase food production if you were to just move it to the pond during this vid

[@CaffeinatedDad]

You are correct! My mistake!

[@ohyeah8224]

thats pretty cool! I love that each clan has a couple of their own things

[@ez5267]

I already put 2 villager in my forge but it shows that they doing nothing. What's up with that?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

If they are not tasked to make something (upgrade weapons-forge relic) they will sit idly. when you click the forge there should be an anvil on the tooltip. When you select that you can choose to upgrade a production unit, members of your warband or forge a relic. Also they generally cost 5-10 iron 100 krowns~

[@dane4890]

Great video, thanks!

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Thanks! I plan on releasing a more advanced guide next week! It coincides with a Northgard Mobile giveaway that features the Horse Clan!

[@prospectorbonky]

Healers hut off rip for food if you get a crappy start foodwise

[@CaffeinatedDad]

healers wouldn't be super recommended just because of the potential for crappy food production. understand your point!

[@endsage2163]

what difficulty is this on? normal, hard, extreme?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

this example was set on normal difficulty

[@bakersdirtydozen]

You have to save often and reload because one too many mishaps and you might as well start a new game.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I can't tell you how many save files I had during my first few play throughs

[@steviek6484]

Great guide

[@CaffeinatedDad]

thank you! I appreciate the kindness of your words!

[@RoydexChannel]

Is this also same at android version?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

This definitely applies to android version that just released! Similar principal!

[@itsturbinetime]

Heavy on the Age of Mythology Nostalgia.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

That is one reason I love the game! I grew up on AoM and have always missed having that same feeling!

[@prueensgloria4743]

You probably shouldn’t put your buildings right on the trees your woodcutters are chopping. The game tells you in the tutorial to put your woodcutter lodges in dense tree areas. You thinned out your forest

[@jefffairchild1854]

This was more of an intermediate guide. For example I don't even know how to colonize a nearby area or heal my troops or do lots of the details that were left out. Was I supposed to view a tutorial? If not I would need to know all of that as a beginner.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

fair point! I suppose this was for those who have played the main story, understood how the game is played in general

[@samueleiacono617]

@@CaffeinatedDad i mean literally having suggestions on answers his questions XD it means jumping the game really without trying to understand

[@patc2515]

This game is giving me a massive chub

[@CaffeinatedDad]

WELCOME TO THE CLUB lol

[@andresmiranda6762]

Dude, Lore is the most important shit in this game at the start you need to prioritize your lorestone

[@CaffeinatedDad]

I have found most of the time I run into a tile that has lore stones on them. Passively it's great to have one early on, but the lore bonuses are not incredibly effective until you have established somewhat of an economy. In the video playthrough I was lucky enough to get a lorestone and I got a villager on it ASAP. Thanks for the comment!

[@toonoob7091]

@@CaffeinatedDad no if you cant get your lore working in the first month of the year so you can't get both knowledge of eco and military as soon as possible so lore early is so important to every clan. If you don't believe check the high gp like 300 or 400+ all they do is to rush lore first priorty

[@CaffeinatedDad]

@@toonoob7091 thanks for the feedback! It seems like that is true, a heavy focus if not highest priority on lore to build up first. Many people have mentioned that and looking at higher tier play it seems that is true

[@surr3ald3sign]

Bro casually gets a spawn consisting of a hunt tile, a fish tile, a lore tile, AND both food tiles have stone nodes 💀 in my 50 some odd games played so far i have never had a start that solid, normally every single tile around me is defended meaning ive gotta waste wood and time on military buildimg right after scouts 😭

[@natenate2280]

Dude I just had a spawn on a shitty beach that only had room for either a fishing hut or a longboat. 3 of the 6 nearby tiles were defended all by woof dens and brown bears, and the tiles that werent defended were smaller tiles with only wood and a pond... the pond was on a woodlands that had a 2/2 starting cap...i got my ass kicked lmao

[@bruhzooka]

How to run sewer lines?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

more of a electrician myself lol

[@mastercalippo]

ngl this guide isnt helping when u factor classes sadly this doesnt help with neustria class at all

[@georgii_r21]

спасибо

[@CaffeinatedDad]

пожалуйста!

[@felipesoares5900]

Seems that's not a very apm intensive game.

[@CaffeinatedDad]

Not really, it's no starcraft or aoe2 but there are things to watch and plan for

[@felipesoares5900]

@@CaffeinatedDad just bought it. I was a SC2 guy, willing to give this one a try.

[@firefly4326]

is android playable?

[@CaffeinatedDad]

yes! it is on Android products now!

[@Asswife]

Is this game same with age of empires or like civilization that take days to finish.