The lonely forest.

[Hannarr]

I'm playing the lonely forest, i've beaten the horde but i literally cannot get enough food to support 1600 population. it's a really small map.

[Michi]

Same here. I am stuck with 8xx pop. The devs said that you don't need a specific tech tree but that is a lie. You need Farms, and the warehouse to finish the mission. I am not doing a restart after 30 hours into the campain.

[Hannarr]

I did almost everything i could i couldn't get past ~1300. But even if you had farms i think it would be hard to reach 1600 just because the you need 200 cottages for that many.

[Mr Plainview]

As soon as I saw all mission objectives were just get x population in y days I picked farms and stone houses in the tech tree. It makes all these tedious objectives way easier.

[pepsix]

are you playing on easy mode?

[Michi]

Originally posted by pepsix:

are you playing on easy mode?

For me the population requirement doesn't change. It is always 1600

[end_game_13]

1600 is only 200 cottages.. or 100 stone houses . The low lands is terribly small and you can get the 1200 before day 50.. I'll try that mission next.

[Magic Turtle]

just took a painful loss because I took too long building my population up before defenses.

I noticed the following:

- on Hard difficulty, the swarm appeared on the 38th day despite the 40 day mark in the description. That was partly my bad for ignoring the skull in the bottom left corner, but I wasnt sure if I was getting a 24/48 hour timer (it was 12hrs)
- the description also says you have 57 days to complete the mission? I was rushing so hard for 1600 (I actually got to 1800 *oops*) before the invasion...do I need to end the wave with 1600 pop? or can I beat the zombies off and then finish population?

[MagnusGrey]

You can use the extra days after the wave to recover/build your pop.

[MudCrab]

Pretty sure you can't win this map without farms. I managed to get to 1300 without them and could not squeeze out another food.

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by weasda:

The devs said that you don't need a specific tech tree but that is a lie. You need Farms

To be fair, devs said that you don't need a specific tech tree.
I.e. you can have a crystal palace instead of farms or something.
Devs never said you don't need any tech.

[herrerik]

I'd say game is VERY hard without at least farms and cottages (wooden houses). Everything else is optional, although soldiers and werehouse is also pretty much basic need (unless you are very experienced in the game).

[seventhflame]

Originally posted by head_red:

just took a painful loss because I took too long building my population up before defenses.

I noticed the following:

- on Hard difficulty, the swarm appeared on the 38th day despite the 40 day mark in the description. That was partly my bad for ignoring the skull in the bottom left corner, but I wasnt sure if I was getting a 24/48 hour timer (it was 12hrs)
- the description also says you have 57 days to complete the mission? I was rushing so hard for 1600 (I actually got to 1800 *oops*) before the invasion...do I need to end the wave with 1600 pop? or can I beat the zombies off and then finish population?

The mission says you have 57 days to complete it so if you beat the wave you can simply build enough houses to complete the objective.

[Wormeur]

why don't you have farms at this point in the campaign tho ...

[One Man Army]

One thing to keep in mind, is that if you build inside huts/farms area of influence, then the squares occupied removes the food they can produce until it's vacant again.

Ex. You build a hut that gives 12food, if you build houses around it, it will probably reduce to 8 or maybe less.

Also...how did you manage to get up to that point without Farms and not going crazy!

[Magic Turtle]

Originally posted by seventhflame:

Originally posted by head_red:

just took a painful loss because I took too long building my population up before defenses.

I noticed the following:

- on Hard difficulty, the swarm appeared on the 38th day despite the 40 day mark in the description. That was partly my bad for ignoring the skull in the bottom left corner, but I wasnt sure if I was getting a 24/48 hour timer (it was 12hrs)
- the description also says you have 57 days to complete the mission? I was rushing so hard for 1600 (I actually got to 1800 *oops*) before the invasion...do I need to end the wave with 1600 pop? or can I beat the zombies off and then finish population?

The mission says you have 57 days to complete it so if you beat the wave you can simply build enough houses to complete the objective.

haha I felt so dumb when I realized I was making my life harder than it needed to be! much easier now focusing on defense first then population objectives