Norse Villg

[Slayer62]

I enjoy playing with norse a lot, but i have one question, do i have to build miners in early game? They cost 60g and is not cheap for early gme. Should i use normal villg untill ihave more gold and build in mass some miners?

[William Wallace]

yes because when u invest gold u save food to advance Age, it's a trade. watch youtube some build order of Norse, see ya

[Slayer62]

Originally posted by William Wallace:

yes because when u invest gold u save food to advance Age, it's a trade. watch youtube some build order of Norse, see ya

so i send normal villg to wood/food while making 1 by 1 gold?
also how many % has the miner farming gold if i compare with a normal villg?

[Lapetirubern]

I'd say it depends on your major god. Thor players will have more dwarves than Odin/Loki/Freyr players due to a combination of his dwarves being better (to the point that they're *barely* worse than gatherers on food and wood, and I believe either best in game or comparable to citizens on gold) and the fact that he gets a free dwarf from every armoury tech researched. I say free in that the dwarf itself doesn't cost any if it's spawned this way, Thor's techs are not any more expensive than anyone else's, outside of the fourth tier that only he gets anyway.

[Stavrozium]

Ill give a quick overview of villager base gather rates.
(it does not account for economic upgrades)
I am using Greek villagers as the baseline.

Greek: 100%
Atlantean: 150% (Hero Citizens: 165%; they do not require dropoff points)
Egyptian: 90% (can be empowered by pharaoh/Ra priests; hence why it is so low)

Norse Gatherer: 95%
Norse Dwarf: 80% for food/wood; 125% for gold
Thor Dwarf: 92% for food/wood; 125% for gold
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So yes, you can use regular Norse villagers for gold;
they only gather gold slightly slower than Greek villagers;
and even faster than unempowered Egyptian villagers.

Its mostly dwarves that shouldnt be used for food/wood;
except when you are playing with Thor.
(they gather food/wood (as good as) as fast as gatherers, in practice)

Also, Dwarves are definitely the best for gathering gold;
but keep in mind, that they also cost gold to produce,
so if you are low on gold, and you really need more gold income,
(like for example when your dwarves just got raided, and/or in early game)
it can sometimes be better to simply use villagers for gold instead.
(and replace them with dwarves later on, while sending villagers to food/wood)

[Duckman]

Depends. If you play as Thor, just use the dwarves to gather gold and set it to auto produce more dwarves until you can change to villagers. If you start out with Odin, just use the villagers to gather meat at the start and auto produce villagers, disregarding dwarves until later on. That is if your plan is to boom...