Travian Strategy Guide

Strategy guide for aggressive raiding roman players. I’ve dominated my area and reached high on the rankings on several servers playing like this.

The Roman tribe is a very interesting one, and for some reason everyone advice new players to go for romans. I really wonder why, I can’t see why it would be the easiest one to play. Usually most new players who chose roman as their tribe just become farms right away. I’m not saying roman is a bad tribe, it’s just played far too passively by many players in my opinion.

Get the rewards
In all my guides I say that you should start following the rewards program first. Read the rest of this entry »

Powerful teuton strategy guide for active raiders. Most successful teutons start out similar to this.

Teuton is my favourite tribe and the one I have played most often. The reason I like teutons is that it’s a very aggressive tribe and it really favours the active player. Like I’ve mentioned before in the introduction guide, you should start out about 3 days after the server has started, so that you can start raiding quicker and so that you’re not put in the middle of everyone else.

Get the rewards
If you play on a server where there is a quest reward system I suggest following that untill you’re at the last part of it. That way is quicker than starting out farming right away cause of all the resources it gives you. Read the rest of this entry »

Just thought I’d leave a short tip on travian culture here today. I’ve lately been checking out the various buildings to figure out in what order to upgrade and build them to gain culture points. It is different depending on whether it’s a speed server or a normal server, but on both the treasury is a very valuable building. You can build a treasury in all your cities except your capital. It costs 9190 in total resources for level 1 but it gives you an amazing 10 culture points per day, so in 50 days it generates just as much culture points as a party!

The total cost would be about 14000 resources when taking into account the 4 crop you pay every hour. A party costs 20320 total resources so the treasury is definately a building you should have for culture. Everyone are using embassies for culture these days, but the treasury is a must too. The only reason not to have it would be lack of space on a speed server. I can write more on other culture buildings later if people are interested.

If you want to be successfull and become one of the biggest and most powerfull players in Travian you have to start out farming. I’m sure you already know what that is, but anyways, it means attacking your neighbours for resources. It doesn’t matter whether you’re playing teuton, roman or gaul, they all grow fastest with farming their neighbours. I’ve seen in a lot of of guides where the writer claims the best way to play roman or is to start out slowly building your resource fields and then cranny up, but that’s just plain wrong. With farming you’ll get a good portion of resources from tens to hundreds of villages instead of just one, can’t argue with that. Teutons are more suited for farming from the very start, but all tribes can do it and should do so from the start.
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What I’m about to discuss here is one of the hardest tricks in the game, and even when you do everything right, it’s still possible to screw it up. The principle is similar to dodging, but much harder to execute.

This should be practiced by everyone that isn’t familiar with the tactic until you feel comfortable enough that you can do everything right in an emergency. Optimally, you should use this on all supply villages and even when you’re making a stand in case the hammer does happen to break through. Read the rest of this entry »

We know there is the ‘In Game’ or Travian world (the server you play on) and players real geographical location on planet earth or the ‘Real’ world. Understanding this simple concept may help you optimise your chances of survival and ability to thrive in game. People all over the planet are playing at any one time, but regardless of where players are situated in real life, most tend to sleep for at least a few hours a day. This gives the Travian world regular daily cycles of activity and inactivity depending upon where the majority of players live and which server you are on. Read the rest of this entry »

Introduction
Perhaps one of the least talked about aspects of Travian is the interaction with other players. If you spend any time playing Travian you will come across newbie’s and very experienced players. You will come across fools and idiots, people who attack before checking that your population is ten times theirs and apologise like mad before their attack comes in. I even had one player attack me, apologise and then send back all of the plundered resources by merchant plus the cost of the two troops they killed (we couldn’t work out a fair price for the rat, I figured that was a favour). You will have BIG scary players in BIG scary alliances to deal with, your immediate neighbours, allies, confederacies, non-aggression pacts, attackers, farms…it is potentially such a big part of the game and really can determine your fate. Read the rest of this entry »

You are a Roman, maybe someday the best of the best. you will encounter many things like wars with Alliances being farmed and more. So here is a little advice! You will have your 22 tasks, so choose your path, military. Build your 2 Legions and start raiding as soon as possible. Read the rest of this entry »