Northgard Guide 01 Resource Gathering

NORTHGARD BEGINNER GUIDE NO. 1

BASIC ECONOMY

10/19/2020

(May be outdated in the future.)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: For bonus clan rules, see Guides on certain clans.

Now, whatever victory you are going to be going for, a strong basic resource supply is going to be absolutely necessary. Take Domination for example; mid-game you will need a steady supply of money, food, and recruits for your your army; wood for more military camps and upgrades; stone for upgrades; and iron to upgrade tools and build a relic. Hope this helps!

ON GATHERING FOOD

I am going to list the methods of gathering food from most effective to least.

Fishermen:

Pros: Very high, stable +8 food supply all year.

Cons: Can only be built in fish zones.

All year production: +8

Farmer:

Pros: High +5 production in Summer.

Cons: Low +3 production in Winter, can only be built in field zones.

All year production: +8

Hunter:

Pros: Fairly high +4.5 – high +5 production in Summer.

Cons: Low +3 production in Winter, can only be built in deer zones.

Special rules: 1 hunter alone produces +5, 2 hunters produce +9.

All year production: +8

Villager/Healer

Pros: +4 production in Summer, can work in any zone with food production building, house, or Town Hall.

Cons: Low +3 production in Winter.

Other

Sheep:

Can be slaughtered for 80 food.

Marketplace:

Food can be bought at a ratio of 2 gold to 1 food.

Altar of kings:

Provides +1 food per 200 fame.

ON GATHERING WOOD

When you colonize forests, build woodcutter's lodges as soon as possible, (at least until you have 2 or 3.) When you have the option of upgrading anything, always upgrade the lodge first, with the possible exception of food production buildings. If you find a forest bordering your town hall zone, build a lodge there and, unless you are particularly suffering for population, move your original woodcutters to there and put **1** villager in your first lodge.

 This will put you seriously ahead, (about 80%,) for wood and you won't have to wait around for enough materials to build stuff as much. You can also scavenge shipwrecks and Naströnd.

ON GATHERING GOLD

Strategies on gold gathering will be listed below. Hope this helps!

The Merchant Marines

Game-Time: Mid-Game.

The “Merchant Marines” are an army, a navy, and a workforce.

1. 1. Build multiple marketplaces, trading posts, and longship-docks. Then build multiple military camps.
		1. Get high enough food to support multiple merchants.
		2. Max out your merchants.
		3. At this point, you will be getting insane amounts of money, especially if you're playing Raven. With this money, your merchants, whenever needed, can all be called into the military and suddenly, you have a gigantic army ready to defend, fight, or do whatever mischief you want with 30 vikings.

Doubling Up

Game Time: Any-time.

Doubling Up is when you set up a marketplace/trading post which upgraded, “Increases merchant's production by 20%.” Therefore, 6 merchants all working with upgraded tools and upgraded zone amounts to about +20 gold.

ON GATHERING STONE/IRON

Build mines.

Sorry, there aren't any strategies I know of on mining.

Build mines.

HOPE THIS HELPED!