21 TIPS to BEAT Bad North / TIPS and TRICKS / #badnorth / How to beat the hardest setting

In this video we give you 21 Tips to beat the game Bad North. It includes tips about the best items to get, the best attributes in the game and some of the key tactics to defeating the strongest enemies.

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[corporaljay]

Collector + Philosopher's stone is OP starting combo, imo.

[narongponsaetan]

This game deserve more content 😭 I wanna see more trait and item I freaking love this game

[HBreakingBad]

My favorite thing to do is place archers on the front of the enemy and step back before the boat gets to land, most of the time there's only 2-3 or even 0 enemies on the boat before they reach the shore, then let the pike men and the infantry squish them. Wouldn't advise doing this against archers or giant archers though

[Govanification]

One thing you've talked about in your playthrough videos but not in this one is how you spread out spending gold on unit upgrades throughout a playthrough. Like mid game it's great to have at least 5 or 6 commanders with a special ability, item and/or upgraded base strength so that you can consistently take on 2-3 islands per round. Late game it starts to make sense to only upgrade the 4 troops you will be bringing to the last island and try to get them as strong as possible, then use your intermediate strength troops for easier islands and don't even bother using your weak / non-upgraded troops before moving on to the next level if you are several ahead.

I went back and forth about whether to give Jabena to a troop with a useful trait since they can get used the most through your playthrough, but since that eats up the item slot it's also less likely you'll want to bring them to the last island. Ultimately if I decided that getting Jabena early or mid game it's worth putting some upgrades into that commander but not fully upgrading them since you lose the item slot that could be more useful on hard islands.

Some of my favorite combos are similar to what you said. Ultimately I feel like 2x infantry, 1x pike and 1x archer is the best combo for the hardest levels, so keep that in mind if you are tempted to give the bomb to one archer and ring of command to another as you likely won't use them at the same time.

Some combos I like:
Ring of command + heavy weapons on archers
Bomb / mines + sure footed / heavy load on pikes
War horn + ironskin on infantry
War hammer + energetic on infantry

[georgehitler]

-Warhammers cooldown is decreased with energetic, it will take about 2 waves of ships for it to recharge (30-45 seconds I would say)

-If Dual wielders are coming for your pikes, put them on a stairway choke point. Dual wielders cannot leap uphill, letting pikes safely kill them without getting stunned and overwhelmed

-The Ironskin trait really ramps up when you upgrade them to veteran, I like to use it with a starting commander to quickly upgrade them and clear more islands faster

- Mountain commanders are very resistant and much more aggressive to enemies, I’ve had one take 2 hits from a brute, kill the brute, and still live

-Dont use Jabena a with a commander whose trait could be valuable late game, you’ll have plenty of commanders then (I like mountain with jabena)

-Be careful with mines, I’ve had an island where only 1 commander was alive, had him place a mine, and get blown up along with the enemies, winning the island with nobody alive after. Mines are great starting items with heavy load, can easily use choke points and make them deadly

-Menu has alternate intro music sometimes

-Challenge yourself with limitations (no houses burned, no items, no skills, militia only)

[niranjancoolkarni]

Wow! Did not expect this video, I love your bad north series, Bad North is the videogame which you come across very rarely, hard to see small community for it.

[tsomofc]

I almost left this game behind.. for my lack of understanding it. Now I'm having lots of fun thanks to watching these series 🧨🧨

[emmawaterfield]

Playing the "hard" mode for the first time and man your skill is so admirable!!! First time commenting but loved all of your Bad North series. If I hadn't watched your video I would've stopped playing after beating the normal mode... but here I am, back at it again. Great work!!!

Ps whenever i see "Godric" I can hear your voice reading it lmao 😂 the archer playthrough clearly made a great impression in my brain

[jasonchatto]

A great tip is to clean up as many. Easy Islands as you can to go for the special rewards, extra squads and coins to upgrade. Then back track to the big difficult islands.

[jakobschoch]

Nice Video!
Did not expect to learn something new as I have done many playtroughs already, but I did not know the commander would grow with every upgrade when having the Mountain trait!

[davidklemen]

another tip for items!
for pikemen, its best to use a self defense item in case your pikes get overrun
for archers, either same for pikes or ring of command, like the video said.
for infantry, i find the horn that gives you reinforcements to be the best, since you will lose your units often because they are close range, having the ability to heal your army instantly is so good! any item on infantry is good for them because they are versatile, so feel free to use any item you want on them!

[SalladLimeParsnip]

Watching your first tip video + this one, makes me want to play pikes a lot more than I do... Also, so happy you are still playing this wonderful game. I simply love it. And I really do not want to watch anyone else playing this game. Hope you put out more playthroughs... I could watch multiple very hard (no extra challenge) runs. It's simply gold. And I learn so much from you

[balasubramanyamh]

Very useful. I like fleet foot on archers to kite around and lose little less dps while moving.

[Mortis_XII]

I could not have found this at a better time. I got a new phone so i purchased bad north for the 4th time. Great tips and thanks you. Fresh save files are always fun

[rily]

fantastic video, I'm so happy this game still gets some love, I didn't know there is a very hard mode, I'll unlock it with this wisdom

[doofus_gotcha]

I like having sure-footed for my infantry so I can keep them on the shore line so they can easily deal with any archers or brute archers while keeping their shields up and ready, that’s just my opinion however and im interested to try them on pikes as well.

[KingDecay]

Phalanx Position is very useful for early stages, not sure about later ones tho (2 infantry squads, 2 piker squads)

[Legendz]

I love pike charge and so far I haven’t seen a warhammer

[viktorlorev]

A combo you can use against the giant archers is infantry + archers or pikemans but the infantri is crusial. At first their shields look useless against them but u have to put them in the right posision in the right direction. But if u use pikeman and infantry the pikemen should have the ability otherwise they are useless in the combo

[RagsF]

I did not know how good ironskin was on infantry early-on till I used it myself!