![]() Leaving the archers on high ground gave covering fire, and with a good vantage point and fair weather they could take out entire boats of vikings before they even touched the beach. My second attempt went much better, as I split my troops between high level infantry and archers. Viking heavies slipped through and decimated most of my army, leaving only a measly reserve archery unit to make a famous last stand on a bleak, hilly island whose trees all had black leaves. ![]() My first run at the game I got about 60% of the way through by playing reactively with defensive troops, trying to move around pikemen instead of planting them in good positions to block enemy advancement. Soon, you’ll find what kind of units you prefer. On each island you must survive a few waves of these marauders - and, if you can, protect any homesteads too, as they’ll provide you with loot to buy upgrades for your army.Įach of the little squads has a different bannerman, and with enough money you can upgrade them from militia to specialists (sword and board infantry archers defensive pikes), to veterans of their class, and unlock special abilities to go with it. ![]() You’re fleeing a constantly oncoming horde of viking invaders, keeping one step ahead of them by daisy chaining across little procedurally generated islands. Your miniature army has a kind of harrowing backstory, though. The islands could have that weird sawdusty grass that Warhammer figures have on their bases. ![]() They would be terrible choking hazards to a man, but that's fine because I would die for these small bois. I would, I think, love nothing more right now than to have a tiny island on my desk, with tiny squads of soldiers and tiny corpses of my enemies on the shore, near where they had beached their tiny boats.Īs you marshal your troops around each randomly generated, adorable little wind blasted island, they make teeny soldierly noises: hup hup hup! hup! Their little boots patter across the ground. Bad North is the first game for a long while that has stirred in me a terrible desire to have it in physical toy form. ![]()
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