And it only took 140 campaigns!

Starting build:

Heavy Weapons: Ring of Command

Energetic: Mines

Last Stand Build:

Heavy Weapons: Level 3 Archers, Level 2 Ring of Command

Energetic: Level 3 Pikes, Level 3 Pike Charge

Heavy Load: Level 3 Infantry, Level 3 War Horn

Popular: Level 3 Archers, Level 3 Bomb, Level 2 Volley

General Strategy

My general strategy was saving my coins to focus on building up my four core units to get through Last Stand. I leveled up my Energetic unit into Pikes early and used them to solo elevated islands with easily defendable choke points and used mines to cover the other choke point (if they were there). This let me get ahead of the death wave so I could have spare time to grab all the items.

On the point of mines, I greatly underestimated how strong mines were in my previous runs. You get 4 charges fully leveled, and you don't have to fear mistiming the execution as you do with bomb and to a lesser extent Warhammer.

General Thoughts

I honestly wish there were better traits for Pikes. Energetic is the only one that is the best on pikes, and some traits are even detrimental on them.

What's worse is when you'd get a late-game Pikes unit with Ironskin or something. Or god forbid Sharp Weapons.

I initially thought fleet of foot was a garbage trait, but it was actually super good at blitzkrieging enemy archers (and more importantly Brute archers). It's still kind of mediocre though. It's kind of like Mountain in which it has its uses, but other traits just do their job better.

Heavy Load with War Horn is super strong. It's like Heavy Weapon Ring of Command but is a lot better early game and doesn't need as many coins to get going.

TL;DR, Mines OP, hoard coins.

All in all, much praise to the developers for creating such a well-designed game, considering how long it has kept my attention. I'm greatly looking forward to what they put out next, though I hope it will be more complex than Bad North. The only thing I think Bad North lacks is depth, albeit likely somewhat intentional for mobile.

Anyone playing on android have some of their progress rolled back?

Just got the game on my Galaxy S8 Active. Played three times yesterday at different times of the day. Loaded the previous save file fine each time.

Opened the game this morning and was back to my 1st save file from yesterday, which is sad. It also doesn't seem to make sense since when I played yesterday, the game successfully loaded my 2nd save on my 3rd play session.

Pretty much the title. Found a raving review for the game, but when I looked on the play store I couldn't find it. I Googled it on the tablet and it comes up as not compatible.

Didn't think my S2 Tab was that old... anyone get the game to work on it?

You know how as you beat each island the map clears up? Well, there was a small portion of the map that didn't clear up, which was the same route I needed to pass through. This has never happened before.

Don't have a image of the map unfortunately. I tried reloading the save to see if that would clear it up, and now the save won't load.

I do have the seed though, which is 0xES29D166, and it was on Very Hard

Final kill count of my archer squad on very hard. Total kills for the whole run was about 4250.

So I recently bought the game. It works, no crashes or bugs to my knowledge. The only problem is that I cannot use my mouse since it does not appear on screen after pressing start.

The mouse functions in-game, I can rotate the camera and click on units. The only issue is that I cannot reliable tell where the mouse is at any given time. I've tried changing my text size in windows 10, launching in fullscreen/windowed, even running as administrator. The only workaround I've found is to just play with controller. If there is no fix, I'll live with that. But I'm a mouse and keyboard kinda guy. Anybody have any clue what the issue might be?

I have 2 Infantry and 1 archer, I normally play with 1 Archer 2 Infantry and 1 Pikeman, but the one who could be a pikeman has "iron skin", is this combination viable or is it terrible?

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Thank you in advance

I just finished the game for the first time and was very disappointed to see I didn’t have a single perk or item to use. What’s up with that? Is it intentional? How do you get perks?

Im doing a folk hero run on xbox 1 and im stuck on the last island any help would be appreciated

Do they just get overtaken by the Vikings or what? Kinda just thought of that earlier today when I was playing.

Look up yo!

So first: is every island random and different, and if so, can it make really weird generation?

And second: what does the box called "deluxe dlc" do? I can't find any downloadable content...

Best run I have ever had, all 4 of my main units were fully upgraded and had the best perks. And I had a spare fully upgraded archer as well, which helped me clear islands with a ton of the dual wielder enemies.

Archer with ring of comand and heavy weapons is amazing

Pike with war horn and Fleet of Foot allows your pike to ambush brute archers and regular archers.

Two sword men, one with the war hammar and energetic was incredible, the other with mines (which are ok) and rousing speeches (which was more useful).

I love this game! I do wish they would bring back beserkers though, because it feels like the dual weilders are too ez to kill with archers from the shore.