You can also easily disrupt your own supply lines and progress if you keep losing resources to unit defeat. It’s not so bad when a lowly axeman unit is wiped out, but losing an archer unit and the skins, furs, wood, and metal it takes to train them can feel like an almost unnecessarily harsh setback for what you have to do to replace them. That includes overall count of villagers in your settlement. If you lose a unit, you lose all resources that were used in creating them. Unit maintenance and protection are easily one of the tougher points of Frozenheim. Each combat unit also features abilities that can turn the tide of a fight when used properly. You can also prepare ships for naval combat and siege weapons like ballistae and catapults (which must be manned by one of your units) for bringing an even more intense offense to your enemies’ walls. Each features their own strengths and weaknesses and you only have so many resources to choose which units will serve your war efforts best. Several regular units are available, including the standard axemen, archers, spearmen, scouts, raiders, and witches. Being able to field combat units and equipment is key to any RTS, but making the most of those units and their composition is a huge part of success and failure in Frozenheim.
When it comes to victory in Frozenheim, you’re eventually going to have to take it by force and that’s where battle comes into play. To arms, brave warriors Source: Paranoid Interactive Choosing the one that suits you best makes for a fun part of Frozenheim’s overall strategy. Meanwhile, the bear clan is far more defense-based, giving you bonuses to the strength of your structures and fortifications. For instance, the crow clan is all about exploration and discovery, featuring bonuses for scouting and travel. It allows you to choose the nature of your clan and unlock one of several skill trees associated with said clan. You can diversify how your settlement specializes and vary up your gameplay with the unlocking and building of one of these structures. That said, another fun part in Frozenheim comes in the form of the Elder Hut. It just kind of feels like where everything else was flowing once I had the resource secured, I was nearly always waiting on wood to continue my plans. If it wasn’t enough that woodcutters go slow about delivering it, the ability to deplete a gathering zone and be forced to cut trees elsewhere was a constant concern in my play.
Everything uses it from buildings to defenses to weapons for certain units. Out of all of this, I quickly found lumber was the hardest thing to keep. In this way, it incentivizes players to consider how you position your resource buildings around the main homestead to minimize time spent gathering and threats to your supply lines. What’s interesting about Frozenheim's resource system is that you must assign workers to not only carry out resource gathering at your workshops, but someone must also be assigned to bring it from the workshops to your Jarl’s longhouse before you can actually use it. Villager count, wood, iron, food, animal pelts, and more come into play as you build houses, woodcutter shacks, tanning racks, and workshops to keep your settlement growing and flourishing. The resources and mechanics Frozenheim has on offer make for an interesting economy as you build up your settlement, manpower, and means to survive. Ultimately, you unlock and learn to use everything at your disposal to effectively build a bristling Viking settlement ready to pillage, burn, and slay those who would threaten you. Each scenario guides you further into the various mechanics of the game as you learn to survive and grow in changing weather and treacherous terrain. For the single-player part, you play your way through several scenarios which see your clan betrayed by treacherous kin and their own armies, as well as battles across land and sea. There is a single-player campaign here as well as several ways to play in multiplayer.
Raise your clanįrozenheim puts you in the role of a Jarl leading up a clan of Norse settlers and countryfolk. While its various systems don’t always have me singing praises of battles well-fought, it is quite the interesting and beautiful take on primitive war, resource management, and battle tactics. That brings us to Frozenheim, which is a Norse-styled real-time strategy game from the folks at Paranoid Interactive. Where strategy games were once a dime a dozen on PC and other gaming platforms, it now feels quite a bit fewer and further between that we get something good in this field. I’ve played a lot of real-time strategy over the decades, but it’s very clear how much the genre has faded over time.
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