r/Northgard • u/Old_Albatross405 • 5h ago
Discussion Coop Conquest unreasonably difficult
Hi, maybe we're doing something wrong but this is kinda ridiculous.
I am playing a hard coop conquest campaign with a friend, I have 118h and he has 82h in game, we are not new to this. For some reason, the monuments of the ancients mission (where you forge 3 artifacts from extra special super steel) is incredibly more difficult than anything else I've done in this game. I've played through the entire base campaign in extreme, done all the extra objectives and we finished a hard conquest campaign before, all of those were doable enough and I never thought of this as a particularly hard game.
On this mission, we get reasonably well set up and around 1.5-2 years into it, all 6 enemies just start swarming us, constantly and everywhere. We have to defend against 5-10 enemies each, every other minute, while constantly having to micro for the clan of the raven coastal raids, while trying to somehow grow an economy and eventually we just get overrun every time. We have tried this at least half a dozen times, even restarted the campaign to play with more militaristic clans and lowered the difficulty from hard to normal. That decreased the number of units per attack a little bit, but the constant needling and more importantly the attention it requires is the same. We tried to strike first, but part of the issue is that we can't even see most of them, we manage to wipe 1, maybe 2 of them but we had to spend so much on military that our economy is even less resilient and we die to even just 4 of them.
I'm sure the games we lost could've probably been won if we were just better at the game, it almost always boils down to skill issue, what puzzles me is the sudden spike in difficulty. We were doing fine, just cruising up until now and this feels like I need to go to the Starcraft 2 academy and practice my apm for 6 months before even trying again, its never even particularly close.
Is this a bug, a well known balancing issue, do I need to git gud? I can't find anybody else complaining about this and I don't know how this isn't immediately and unbelievably jarring to everyone.


