Beginner's Guide

Difficulty
When starting a new campaign you will first have to pick your game difficulty. The difficulty can be changed at any point in the options menu. Sons of Valhalla offers the following difficulty levels:

Gameplay basics
To restore health you need to eat. To restore stamina you need to drink.

Stamina is required for dodging, blocking and power attacking. If you run out of stamina you can no longer do any of these and in addition movement speed will be reduced and standard attacks will be slower and cannot be chained together.

There are two types of attacks. Standard attacks do not require Stamina. Power attacks deal more damage but require 3 Stamina.

When blocking use the mouse cursor to change the direction of the shield. The shield must be in the way of an attack to block it.

Additional resources can be dropped by enemies or crates.

On the minimap allies appear golden and enemies appear red.

Allies can be given orders to hold position, attack, follow or shield wall. If ordered to attack the men will run towards enemies until they capture a new capture point or die. A shield wall can only be ordered if there is at least one shield bearer among the men. Commands can be given either to all men or only to certain types.

To conquer a camp stand near the campfire while there are no enemies nearby until the banner colors completely.

Warriors trained in the city will automatically run to the last captured gate.

The first enemy camp will have Scarecrow as a miniboss.