Northgard: Garm, Clan of the Hounds Review (Nerdock)
This clan is a great idea, but this suffers exactly like early/unbuffed Lynx did. The economy just isn't set up to sustain or even purchase a warband, period. They also have nothing to offset it, like Ox does (not that they're any kind of good example to follow).
Literally every component of this clan is extremely expensive and if you get economically behind, you can't catch up because you can't convert your warband back into brawlers/villagers. Your warband investment is *permanent* until they die and when they do, it just sets you even farther back (lost exp, lost time, lost krowns, etc) - all to get 1-2 villagers out of it so you can start the grueling leveling process over again.
Oh and you can forget about mining ores of any kind, this clan just straight up doesn't have the ability to do it, because you can't afford the villagers to do so (and brawlers don't harvest ore quickly, even though they should. 2 miners is like +0.7 and 1 brawler is +0.8, it's horrible, HORRIBLE numbers).
Another telling sign for me was that even when I did go the slower economic route to make sure I was stabilized, it took five-ever to get a 3-5+ person warband and it took WAY too long to just win the game. TTK was 30%+ longer than with Stag, Kraken, Bear or anything else.
Fame is another problem, the bonuses are underwhelming at best and abominable at worst (zerkers don't get +stats when they level, because why would they? Your 2-3 main zerker types stay at the same Def value at every level, which is frustrating to say the least) and it takes too long to get fame with the clan, unless you slam boar-only pickups to get lore, which further buries your already struggling economy.
I'm surprised that with all the...foibles of Lion and other clans (Owl being a ******* mess as well) that players aren't being recruited for NDA/Closed Beta Testing, because it feels like some of the recent clans have been underwhelming and overly complicated.
Ideally we see some buffs, like how Lynx got, but for now, this new toy is going back in the box until it gets some desperately needed changes.
Edit: Lmao they NERFED this already limping clan. This new dev (who also created Lion and Owl apparently) is honesty out of touch with the state of these new clans he's creating. I am genuinely sad about that, this clan had a lot of potential and it's just wasted on nerfs of all things. I'm *shocked* that this got nerfs after all the feedback on the review section. But devs not playing their own game isn't a new thing, I'm just sad its continuing here.
I also gave it my best shot to play and try and try again - and now I can't refund it because I have over 2 hours on the clan. Neat.