How do I start an attack in NorseLands?

[Loumas]

In every version of the game there was some kind of building at the edge of your camp, that when paid, started an attack of your troops on the greed spawners at the given side of the map. The only structure I found in NorseLands like this is a viking statue, but when I pay 1 coin to it, my troops just go outside my outer wall and stand in defensive position.

Am I missing something?

[Zeke]

the place to send an attack is outside the walls for 4 gold
that will then order a knight to attack the closest portal to the wall on hat side

*note that knights wont go until you have "at least" an archer attached to the knight (4max per knight) and knights will only accept shielded archers to join them, so you need to get the shield building, by expanding your walls, to equip your troops*

[Bitz]

Originally posted by Zeke:

the place to send an attack is outside the walls for 4 gold
that will then order a knight to attack the closest portal to the wall on hat side

*note that knights wont go until you have "at least" an archer attached to the knight (4max per knight) and knights will only accept shielded archers to join them, so you need to get the shield building, by expanding your walls, to equip your troops*

Yeah, nah, when I got to the banner (outside the castle walls) the prompt doesn't come up, furthermore, I cannot get knight shields on the keep, it's simply not possible to attack portals anymore from what I see.

[Angelica]

you need shields for archers to be assigned to the troops, so you need to make shields to be able to send out a proper squad

[Varagonax]

Originally posted by Bitz:

Originally posted by Zeke:

the place to send an attack is outside the walls for 4 gold
that will then order a knight to attack the closest portal to the wall on hat side

*note that knights wont go until you have "at least" an archer attached to the knight (4max per knight) and knights will only accept shielded archers to join them, so you need to get the shield building, by expanding your walls, to equip your troops*

Yeah, nah, when I got to the banner (outside the castle walls) the prompt doesn't come up, furthermore, I cannot get knight shields on the keep, it's simply not possible to attack portals anymore from what I see.

Have you upgraded to the right building, and do you have squire squads?

[Bitz]

Originally posted by Varagonax:

Originally posted by Bitz:

Yeah, nah, when I got to the banner (outside the castle walls) the prompt doesn't come up, furthermore, I cannot get knight shields on the keep, it's simply not possible to attack portals anymore from what I see.

Have you upgraded to the right building, and do you have squire squads?

No, I can't even figure out how to get the squires, i've only been able to get builders and archers shields and also the berserkers, but I still cannot initiate a raid.

[Varagonax]

Originally posted by Bitz:

Originally posted by Varagonax:

Have you upgraded to the right building, and do you have squire squads?

No, I can't even figure out how to get the squires, i've only been able to get builders and archers shields and also the berserkers, but I still cannot initiate a raid.

ok so you need to have the second tier house, two tiers past the campsite. You will have the option to spend 4(?) coins at the house on either side of the door to buy two shields, which will turn into banners when you have hired a squire.
Once you have squires, they pick up 4 archers each. NOW you can hire out a squad to take out portals, but I don't recommend it (because of retaliations waves, and because of the fact that squires cant take out portals, like at all) until you can buy them out full gear, which is later on with a more improved keep where a new building you can buy them new weapons and upgrade them into knights or samurai (or whatever they are called in Norse Lands).

[Zeke]

Originally posted by Bitz:

Yeah, nah, when I got to the banner (outside the castle walls) the prompt doesn't come up

i feel the need to point out that its not the banner on the wall that sends out the attack, its the "sign on a stick" looking thing just beyond the wall, outside the wall, that attacks are launched from
likely an update to make some space between the attack order and the "build wall, sound horn" effect to prevent "misclicking" and all that

Originally posted by Bitz:

Originally posted by Varagonax:

Have you upgraded to the right building, and do you have squire squads?

No, I can't even figure out how to get the squires, i've only been able to get builders and archers shields and also the berserkers, but I still cannot initiate a raid.

and on that note, you dont "get" the option to hire knights until you get to the castle stage of the build, aka, after the stone wall upgrade (or logging camp in norselands *island 2*) is payed for and you upgrade the keep to castle level
(you start with a firepit *3 coins* you can upgrade to a single hut, then to a camp with walls that auto build as part of the price (if you didnt already build them yourself), then again once more to a house/hall building (1st wood building, out pops the banker), then you upgrade it again and it auto upgrades your walls to stone level and both towers to tier 2 (again, if you've not already done it yourself), next upgrade (second last possible upgrade) gets you a castle which you can hire squires from
and the final upgrade (which requires the second build upgrade *iron/hardwood* islands 4 *or 5 for norselands*) makes it a fortress which auto upgrades the walls again to the max level and the towers to the upgraded 3 person guard towers, and also gives you a big fancy looking palace/castle which also lets you "build the bomb* that lets you destroy the cliff portal for good

[Bitz]

Originally posted by Zeke:

Originally posted by Bitz:

Yeah, nah, when I got to the banner (outside the castle walls) the prompt doesn't come up

i feel the need to point out that its not the banner on the wall that sends out the attack, its the "sign on a stick" looking thing just beyond the wall, outside the wall, that attacks are launched from
likely an update to make some space between the attack order and the "build wall, sound horn" effect to prevent "misclicking" and all that

Originally posted by Bitz:

No, I can't even figure out how to get the squires, i've only been able to get builders and archers shields and also the berserkers, but I still cannot initiate a raid.

and on that note, you dont "get" the option to hire knights until you get to the castle stage of the build, aka, after the stone wall upgrade (or logging camp in norselands *island 2*) is payed for and you upgrade the keep to castle level
(you start with a firepit *3 coins* you can upgrade to a single hut, then to a camp with walls that auto build as part of the price (if you didnt already build them yourself), then again once more to a house/hall building (1st wood building, out pops the banker), then you upgrade it again and it auto upgrades your walls to stone level and both towers to tier 2 (again, if you've not already done it yourself), next upgrade (second last possible upgrade) gets you a castle which you can hire squires from
and the final upgrade (which requires the second build upgrade *iron/hardwood* islands 4 *or 5 for norselands*) makes it a fortress which auto upgrades the walls again to the max level and the towers to the upgraded 3 person guard towers, and also gives you a big fancy looking palace/castle which also lets you "build the bomb* that lets you destroy the cliff portal for good

my game must simply be glitched, since I do not get the option to hire squires once on the stone keep upgrade, I have to manually get the squire hermit and create a squire tower to get the squires.
I remember being able to buy squire shields on the 2 sides of the keep, now the prompt wont show up whatsoever.

[Rusty]

To whomever comes to this discussion section seeking the answer on how to send attack parties toward portals (in norse lands, not main game), is you need to expand your walls long enough that it auto builds the shield building, buy shields for archers and then theyll start lining up behind squires (or knights) in order to form a proper attack party, answers in this section are answers for the base game, not for norse lands (which op was asking about)
i was confused on not being able to do so either, its not cause of a bug. got the shield building and bought shields and they started lining up behind them finally, problem solved

[MrBigMan]

Attacking mechanic in this game SUCKS! it just ruins all the pleasure from the game, Also no even single minimap or camp status or any indication in game what so ever...
So I have main building with two shields on each side. I reached the portal with buildings.
I have archers and shield guys.. I pay 4 coins outside the wall to start attack - I get 1 guy with a shield and 2-3 archers march to the portal (I cand understand how to make more people in squad) Sometimes they reach portal and archers shoot it for the whole day and noting happens to the portal. Sometimes they reach portal and just stand. Greeds apper hit the main guy untill he goes down and whole squad is killed. Its a bug or what? This game seems to be good and ment fot chill and relaxed game but in reality it explodes your ass as you dont understand what the F is going on at each moment all what happens is you waste coins to make stupid citizen do what you need and the don do it

[Zeke]

Originally posted by MrBigMan:

So I have main building with two shields on each side. I reached the portal with buildings.
I have archers and shield guys.. I pay 4 coins outside the wall to start attack - I get 1 guy with a shield and 2-3 archers march to the portal (I cand understand how to make more people in squad) Sometimes they reach portal and archers shoot it for the whole day and noting happens to the portal.

usually you get 2 knights on each side with 4 archers each to attack a portal
so a full squad is 2 knights and 8 archers, that usually brings a portal down
sending a single knight with just 2-3 archers isnt going to do much

it sounds like your sending a knight out to soon, wait till you have 2 full squads before attacking
you pay 4 gold to send "a" knight, you need to pay it again to send the second one

if this isnt your issue, let us know and we can see if we can help

(typo edit)