Northgard Battlegrounds

Northgard Battlegrounds/Tier list

Early access · updated 29 Oct 2026

Northgard Battlegrounds Tier List (October 2026)

The nine Best builds for early access (game 0.79.40p), ranked S to C by how strong each board is once it comes together, then the four clans. Every entry says why it sits where it does and what it needs.

The god line shows how often a build is on: each run offers your clan's own god and two of the other three, so a build that needs two outside gods comes up in 1 run in 3. A build marked Estimate has no early-access runs behind it yet; its place comes from what its pieces do after the patch, and it moves when runs prove it wrong.

Best builds by tier

SWins runs on its own

Bear warband economyBear · BorgildBaldr 3Own god only: every runSits alone at the top because it needs no outside god and pays for itself: under Protectors of the Land each Warband camp makes up to 3 Krowns a round, while Borgild and Kaija hold the line from round 1. Early-access runs on it have reached Golden Wins; its weak rounds are the first ones, while each camp still sends a single unit.Open the full build →

AStrong once it comes together

Bear armor and regenBear · BorgildBaldr 5Loki 1Own god only: every runThe same two warchiefs as the S board, grown every battle (Kaija by 80 Health) and kept alive by Urdarbrunn and Winter Festival, but it leans on one Epic, Scabbard of Gram, that the shop may not offer in time. It plays in every Bear run, since Baldr is Bear's own god, and loses mostly to healer boards before the warchiefs have grown.Open the full build →Wolf melee on Baldr and LokiWolf · EgilBaldr 8Loki 7Needs Baldr and Loki: 1 run in 3Once both gods arrive it is the strongest Wolf board: Baldr 8 gives every Melee 75 Armor and a Ward, and Loki 7 adds 30 Crit Chance on top of Pack Tactics. It sits in A rather than S because only 1 Wolf run in 3 offers Baldr and Loki together; without them, play Wolf pack warbands.Open the full build →

BSolid, with a clear weak spot

Wolf pack warbandsWolf · EgilThor 5Baldr 3Own god only: every runThe Wolf board you can play every run, on Thor, Wolf's own god: Pack Tactics and Berserker's Rage reward a tight melee pile around Egil, who starts with 15 Damage, the most of any warchief. It ranks below the favor pile because without Baldr's Armor the pack melts to healer backlines and heavy Frost.Open the full build →Mystical monstersRaven · LivThor 8Odin 5Needs Thor: 2 runs in 3Big single units carry it: a level 3 Jötunn has 1,650 Health and 5 Cleave, and Mythic Rage adds 8 Damage to every Mystical unit. Early access took away the Jötunn's stun, so it sits below the Bear and Wolf piles, and it needs Thor, offered in 2 Raven runs in 3.Open the full build →Krown bankRaven · LivThor 8Baldr 5Needs Thor and Baldr: 1 run in 3EstimateBanking 24 Krowns fills every Mercenary Camp with four Mercenaries and gives Naglfar's Son of Hrymr +360 Health at level 3, and the patch cut none of it. It stays in B because it needs Thor and Baldr, offered together in only 1 Raven run in 3, and every Krown you bank is one you don't spend in the shop.Open the full build →

CCut by the patch or hard to finish

Raven economyRaven · LivThor 8Needs Thor: 2 runs in 3Early access cut its core: Duelist's Cunning pays less at levels 1 and 2, and Gjallarhorn is now an Epic, so three copies are harder to find. Liv also starts on 200 Health, the lowest of the four warchiefs, and Ranged boards led by a Wyvern Nest pick her apart before the crits add up; on Raven, Mystical monsters is the better board.Open the full build →Kobold economyStag · BrandBaldr 8Odin 5Needs Odin: 2 runs in 3EstimateKobold Camp's speed per Economy structure was halved to 0.05/0.1/0.15, so six Economy pieces now add +0.9 Action Speed instead of +1.8. Its pieces are the easiest to find of the C builds, a Rare Offering Well rather than an Epic, but it needs Odin (2 Stag runs in 3) and loses to wide cleave with big healing.Open the full build →Einherjar + BifrostStag · BrandBaldr 8Thor 8Needs Thor: 2 runs in 3EstimateHlidskjalf now holds two villagers, so a level 3 Bifrost brings the wall to five Einherjar instead of six, and Hlidskjalf is a Stag-only Epic you need at level 3. It is the hardest board here to finish, which keeps it in C even though five Einherjar that each revive once are hard to break when it does come together.Open the full build →