Valkyries' Abilities

[peacefighter]

How do I use them? I don't mean using them in conjunction with Rage. For example, I select Regina's icon and use "Trembling Hammer", what will happen during combat? What does it mean to appoint one of the Valkyries to be "Senior"; or, selecting "take control of the runes of my troops?"

Thanks in advance.

[Talana 💃]

A guy called Vigaroe has made an excellent guide for the Valkyries and most other KB WoTN stuff.
http://www.vigaroe.com/2018/09/warriors-of-north-companion-analysis.html

Have fun

[peacefighter]

Thank you for providing me with a link. Sadly, reading Vigaroe's compendium only raises more questions. It is written not as a primer, but to someone who is familiar with the game's mechanics, and thus, it appears often at times as editorial and even storytelling. This is good, but it doesn't tell me how to play the game. Thanks again for taking the time for your research and input.

[Talana 💃]

What I did to make myself understand the KB games better, was watching bits and pieces of "let`s play KB" on Youtube. Some of those making such playthrougs are really thorough, and I learned a lot. Especially from a guy called "Nofair Fight" .
Other than the Vigaroe info, I haven`t found any in depth guides to the Valkyries, sorry .

There`s a great guide for Warriors of The North on Steam , with more basic info about them - and sometimes that`s easier to take in , so ;
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=172622195

BTW, this whole guide is amazing , and helped me a lot on my first playthrough . I only wish Sethmage had added the DLC to it .

[peacefighter]

Thank you again for your reply. I watched many of "Nofair Fight" KB:WotN I&F videos on YouTube. On occasions I would combing through his videos looking for a solution. Unfortunately, watching his videos require patience, even skimming through it--his game approach is to avoid all early confrontations, but to seek out runes, dug-up treasures, and picked up items (like scrolls and XP banners). Doing so, his character becomes so powerful that he easily steamrolls his oppositions in the latter part of the game. He even avoids picking up gold coins until he has pirates in his squad for a larger payout. Truly, he is optimizing his game. These are his strategies, but to a viewer like me, this gets old very quickly.

I have not looked at Sethmage's treatise yet, but wanted to thank you first.

[LotusBlade]

Valkyre abilities are some sort of Joker-moves to survive tough battles. Those abilities are buffs, which will work for a single battle and give bonuses to all your units. For example, one of the buffs is +1 morale to all units, the other is +1 initiative, the third is +rage. Fourth i like the most — revive 2 lost squads of level 1-3, so you can play aggresivly and literally let your units completly die during battle.

Senior means valkyrie is in charge of other valkyries and places in the middle of big squere. She becomes "queen", this will improve her passive boost by several times. Anytime you can switch main valkyrie to another one, main will lose boost and secondary will become main and get boost.

Taking controll of runes means AI will use them, so you don't have to make extra clicks manually. But AI is dumb and you won't be able to precicely choose when to activate runes. For example, wasting them before reaching enemy. But you can turn it on/off any time.

[peacefighter]

Thank you very much //LotusBlade//. Your input provided a lot of insight on how the Valkyries' system works. One quick question: What are Special Skills and Skill Recharge attributes mean?

[peacefighter]

Originally posted by Talana 👒:

There`s a great guide for Warriors of The North on Steam , with more basic info about them - and sometimes that`s easier to take in , so ;
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=172622195

BTW, this whole guide is amazing , and helped me a lot on my first playthrough . I only wish Sethmage had added the DLC to it .

Yes, I am impress with Sethmage's guide. When I finally realized that I was only on the first page, I began to understand why it is amazing. This has to be the "go to" document for answers. Thanks again.

[LotusBlade]

Originally posted by peacefighter:

What are Special Skills

Probably their active abilities. It's hard to figure even in native language xD

Originally posted by peacefighter:

Skill Recharge attributes mean?

Passive skills working all the time, but active abilities will require an ammount of battles to win in order to recharge and ready to be used. You can hover mouse over valkyrie to see how many battles still required until you can use active ability again. If i recall correctly, first valkyrie needs 20 battles to recharge, second 15 and third only 7. Their charges will recharge simultaneously and cannot be sped up by any means rather than fighting.