Travian gaul guide
This gaul strategy guide is for active players who enjoy raiding, farming, dominating their area and reaching to the top of the rankings. Many successful players I’ve talked with are playing gauls like this.
After playing gauls quite a bit lately on many different servers I’ve started enjoying them more and more. Especially on a speed servers it’s a lot of fun raiding with their extremely fast raiding troops, the theutates thunders, TTs for short. Being able to reach anyone in your whole 21×21 in 20 minutes is simply quite awesome. I’ve also found it very easy to catch people with armies at home using the gaul’s fast TTs as your enemy don’t see you coming before it’s too late. On one of the servers I played I was overdoing it though, and killed like 2000 troops around me before even starting with infrastructure for city number 2. Not the best way to play, but a whole lot of fun. And sorry to all my victims, it was nothing personal.
This guide is meant for players who can be very active the first week or so of the server, and the number of troops as well as time lines reflect that.
Start at server day 1
With gauls I think you should start out when the server starts, or a few hours after it starts, as you don’t want the teutons to have too many paladins or spears when you start hitting them with your TTs. Last time I started one day late on a speed server, and I lost many more troops than I had to cause of paladins and spears.
Build phalanxes to raid with
Anyways, how do you get to these amazing TTs fast? Phalanxes are horrible raiders after all and you don’t want to be stuck with those for too long. I’ve been discussing this with many people on several forums and the general consensus is that you should start out with a number of phalanxes to raid with. That is as soon as you are done with the reward program, if you have that in your server. Take the market place route, as you’ll need that to convert resources with the NPC merchant. After you get the market place, build rally and barracks and start building troops.
As soon as you have 4 phalanxes you should start raiding inactives, if you’re on a server with the reward program, only raid players with less than 9 population, so you’re sure you won’t run into that rat. You need to make 11 raids or more with the phalanxes to make them profitable so you don’t want to kill them on rats. Half a day or so out of beginner protection, if you have some teutons around you, you could try raiding players with less than 20 pop, as the teutons probably already took care of the rat.
Train as many phalanx raiders as needed
How many phalanxes you train to raid with before you start going for resource fields is hard to say, it depends on what your neighbourhood looks like. You want as many phalanxes as needed to empty all the small inactives in your 13×13, but not more than that. Small inactives being anyone under 20 in population, or under 9 population if you wanna be on the safe side. Last speed server I just went for 20 phalanxes before I started with resources, as that was all I needed.
Build resource fields and cranny if needed
Those phalanxes won’t give you the income you need to get the TTs fast on a speed server, so you’ll want to build some resource fields now. How far you extend your resource fields before you start with TT infrastructure depends on how good your neighbourhood is for farming. With 20 phalanxes raiding, get half your fields to lvl 4 and half to lvl 3. With 40 phalanxes raiding all of them to lvl 3 should be enough. If you’re being raided frequently by teutons you also need to build up your cranny so they don’t get anything, and make sure you don’t have your army at home at any time. You’re not gonna fight teutons with phalanxes, wait till you get TTs to do that.
Infrastructure and researching theutates thunders
This is the hardest part of the guide, as it takes quite a few resource to build buildings and research the TTs, about 17000 total actually. You need stable level 3, blacksmith level 3 and academy level 5 before you can research them. Holding 2200 lumber at one time to do the research might be tricky, if you’re getting raided a lot you need to build a pretty big cranny. Hopefully you’ve done well keeping no rescourses at home for raiders before so that the number of raids you get on you will be limited. With this guide I belive you can get TTs in about 50-55 hours if everything goes real smooth. I had to spend 65 hours last time loosing too many phalanxes in my raids, but even if you have to spend 3 whole days (72 hours), it’s still very good.
After you get the TTs things are starting to get more fun. Now you can take revenge on those annoying teutons who might have been raiding you over and over. If any of them attack you now, make sure you dodge the attack and counter it. Don’t go to crazy with attacking the teutons around you though, don’t attack if it’ll cost you more than 1/3 of your total troops, and make sure you have a steady increase in TTs even when fighting the teutons. Trying to get control of your neighbourhood is important, but you have to keep your raiding income up while doing so. Just lay off the teutons who have a lot of spears, it’s not worth killing those at this point.
Second village
As a gaul you’ll take quite a bit longer time before founding your second village compared to teutons. That’s ok though, there’s no reason to rush it too much. It’s hard to set an exact point when it should be done, as there are so many factors to consider, but as a general guideline I’d say it is when you have about 100-150 TTs and a pretty good control of your close neighbourhood, the 13×13. If things go well this should be about day 6 on the server. I usually go for a 15 cropper as my second village but then you should be willing to use some gold at the NPC from the start. There is more about this in my other strategy articles.
From here on I start building myself a nice army of swordsmen as well as keeping up the TT production in my stable. Since this is just a start guide I will end this here and write more about later stages with gauls in other articles. I hope you found this guide usefull and feel free to leave some comments.
I want to say i have on good tactic with Gaul.
At first i make one field on level 1 just one,and clay on level 2.
I use my gold so i will have industry 25% faster.
And i will have suffice recourse for barrack
my industry now go 41,56,41,26
And after 12 we will have recourse for 5 Pxalaxes,and when you can raid you will have about 10-12 pxalanks…..
I think that what you write about Gaul is perfect
and thank you that wil help and me and for everybody rest travian’s adorers 
gile
19 Jul 08 at 3:02 pm
thats quite good
666jedi666
19 Jul 08 at 3:26 pm
Thats a nice guide! Good job!
btw: If anyone wants my co-ords, email me.
Sean
19 Jul 08 at 6:26 pm
lol whats your email lol
666jedi666
20 Jul 08 at 11:40 am
this is a great guide, it really helped me out. I’m happily raiding with TTs now
thanks
james
4 Aug 08 at 4:31 pm
Good guide,but i still think thats big risk raiding with phalanxes,nice tactic but(again)i think its better to upgrade fields to lvl6 and than TT-s
nvm good luck
F118
20 Oct 08 at 2:39 pm
its good to know about this .i was suffering this whole days i will follow this thanks
kanna
24 Nov 08 at 4:21 pm
It helped me out. I knew most of this, but some things I didn’t know. This site needs a couple of more guides.
Assassinator
30 Nov 08 at 8:33 am
First i have to thank you! This is a great guide and it really work.
Thanks.
El_Rido
17 Dec 08 at 10:01 am
зато правда все написано
Машина
19 Dec 08 at 1:25 pm
умные мужчины всегда умеют сформулировать грамотно и страстно мысли..
Сеньорита
20 Dec 08 at 9:50 pm
прекрасно, удивительно, великолепно, замечательно! -)
Alfa
21 Dec 08 at 5:41 pm
Nice! I’ll do similat post in my blogg
Light
22 Jan 09 at 1:04 pm
As always it’s great to see someone else’s opinion on things. I’m going to try this when s5.us starts in a couple days.
Bethany
22 Jan 09 at 11:47 pm
straight to tt not swordsman?
france
1 Feb 09 at 9:19 am
Хай,автор!!!
У вас на блоге слова как крякозябры какието- пофиксите, ато хочется прочитать
erzmetall
6 Feb 09 at 5:46 pm
How fast you can rush for TT?
And for Gaul, starting strategy and mid-stage strategy are totally different.
You havent mentioned the development plan for mid-stage.
Nice starting strategy anyway except I a bit disagree on when to start the account.
JD
8 Feb 09 at 11:32 pm
True, this is just a starting guide, I’m thinking of writing on mid- and endgame in another post later. I’ve gotten TTs like 70 hours after the start of the server, but I’m sure it can be done a little faster. Depends a lot on how good your farms are though, and whether you have bunch of teautons hitting you all the time. What do you think the account should be started though?
Iwind
9 Feb 09 at 2:26 pm
very nice strategy, but is gaul really worthy?
how useful is their higher speed when catapults are involved? and how better are their defenses?
I think this strategy is good against somehow newb teutons, but a smart player will make spearmen and lure u on them, how to counter it? Since he can build more units and can defend from u, u will be sharing farms with him and he will expand first and get cata before u…
Also, I don’t see traps useful (good thing u didn’t even mention it!). I’ve read ppl saying we can trap enemy troops and charge a tax to let them go. But again, a teuton with a lot of units can just attack u and free them, or simply dissolve them since they are not that expensive at all. And if we find a stronger teuton trying to down us, he will just keep attacking regardless of the traps.
If gaul cata was faster it would be a nice advantage, being as slow as the others and having to be scolted, gaul is narrowed giving advantage to teuton. The only advantage I see in gaul is the bigger cranny, but nothing an active teuton with a couple of villages can’t deal with.
Hikari
13 Mar 09 at 2:03 am
Well hikari do you allways attack with catas???
And if you can’t see more advantage with gauls then there cranny, you aint that clever…
Gauls are simply better defenders and they can have a very fast defense with druids and headuans… I personelly go for a mixture between phalanxes and druids…
Yes for very active ppl that love to farm teutons are surely better, but if you compare paladins and druids you can se that druids have 15 more attack,15 more defense vs infanteri and 15 more defense vs cavalery.
Mvh gunner(Gauls <3)
Gunner
1 Apr 09 at 2:22 pm
Replying to the guy above me. How will the teuton know you’re rushing TT’s? Another thing is, researching Smen will cost him a lot, and they’re quite costy to build too. The main thing here is to get TT’s a little faster than the teuton has a thought you’re going for them. Once you have them, one TT (note you can’t send him alone) will rip 23 Clubs. Then it’s too late. He will start researching Smen, but just keep him under heavy fire, because 2-3 Smen < 20 TT’s.
Kangaxx
5 Apr 09 at 12:56 am
Don’t use gold at the begining!! If your clay is 40 per hour and you pay 5 gold for 25% more clay, you will have just 10 more clay per hour…it is not worth it…save your gold for later!
lolxdwtf
6 Apr 09 at 11:28 pm
I’ve played gauls now 3 speed servers and 1 normal.
If I’m honest, this is first time when I’m farmer, not a farm.
Normally teutons have killed my 300-500 falanxs on day 3-4, so normally it have been hardly to keep farming others.
Now I started 8h after the server started(Speed), and got nice spot with 15c next to me. First upgraded all resource fields to lvl 1 and made barracks and started to make those phalanxs. I farmed like 4-5h until got enough resources to make swordsmans(I know many of gaul players don’t think this is useful, but i prefer this opinion)
Farmed with swordsmans and made same time more and more falanxs(got like 50 phalanxs and swordsmans 6h after start. I know i could got more, but lost some while farming.)
Upgraded all fields to lvl 2 and one of each to lvl 3. After this I made TT rdy and started to farm with them.
After got like 300 phalanxs, 100 swordsmans and 50TT’s(on second day) I upgraded all my fields to lvl 4 and started to gather resources for new village… At this moment, bigger teuton-player came and killed all my troops so I had to use resources for troops…
Next day that teuton player took the 15c next to me, and I hadded to go near 100|-100 area with my new village where was another 15c with +150% crop.
But thats how i made my first days on new server. That needs alot time, but it is worth of it.
Taqito
22 Apr 09 at 10:25 am
I have 10 phallanx.but almost every inactive around me has beginner protection.what should I do?
rahi
6 May 09 at 4:08 pm
pretty good guide,but I think raiding with phalanxes is risky,what I usually do with gauls is getting a couple of swordman(100-150) and then moving on to tt.
turles
29 May 09 at 7:21 am
Great guide
me and my Dual have been using it and it works perfeckt 
we are now farming wiht TT´s after ca. 54 hours 
Thank u for a great guid. But We was not starting on day one but day 2, becoues uor falanx could farm more then wiht not that many teutons around 
Thank you for a great guide
lappqr
8 Jun 09 at 10:42 pm
that is cool
gay
9 Jun 09 at 6:11 am
that is coool
guy
9 Jun 09 at 6:12 am
But if you rush for tts, the teutons will make spears and crush them. Teuton spearmen are strong against the cavalry.
someone
9 Jun 09 at 6:20 am
hey, everyone in my 7×7 are teutons and big players. they keep raiding me and as soon as i have any troops up, they get killed. I have 20 traps though and a level 10 cranny, so they dont get anything. I pretty much just started server a day ago, 3 days after it started. What should i do?
Sanchit
11 Jun 09 at 1:34 pm
Great guide! But I was wondering, how do you get so much troops in just 6 days? Do people here play travian 24/7? I don’t! I log on every 24 hours, then play for about 3 hours, then log on 24 hours later! (except of weekends. I’m sorta on most of the time.) That’s crazy, don’t you guys go to school? Jobs? Dates? (lol)
Anyway, great guide.
Leo_09
22 Jun 09 at 11:41 am
great blog i must say … could you tell me what do we get by training phalanx in the building blacksmith.i mean i already have phalanx but there is a possibility to upgrade them in blacksmith …but it requires a lot of raw materials ..
tuks
30 Jun 09 at 1:54 pm
great guide for Gauls, btw did anyone know any successful Gaul player who top the server? any server?
xMODx
4 Jul 09 at 7:36 am
Iwind i was wondering if u could help me on my new sever ???? cuz i think its crazy how u can do that with the gauls plz
Jordan
11 Jul 09 at 6:17 am
hey iwind can u help me on my new sever cuase its crazy how u do that
Jordan
11 Jul 09 at 6:19 am
nice guide still lacks some details but generally good for raiders and active players.. still, might you want to add contingency plans in case you T.T’s get smacked while still its not yet plenty..
anyway i followed this guide with a bit of diversions of my own. it worked well i’ll give him that
cytosin24
23 Jul 09 at 3:53 pm
you would be better chosing militery it gives more resources
sean
27 Jul 09 at 11:39 am
i think if you convert it in to a roman one it will be best becaues romans have the strongest troops and the ci can carry more resources for close raids plus when making new villages can be made qicker
sean
30 Jul 09 at 12:19 pm
Good…..its a good guide
power
14 Sep 09 at 11:50 am
i used to play on indian spped server. now i have some what 15k tt,s. my account name in the speedf server is visage. i am now the top raider in the entire server!!!!!!!!!. i also killed ovver 90000 troops in an hour. can u imagine. in the week i killed over a million.
visage
11 Oct 09 at 1:27 pm
I can totally vouch for Visage here…I am playing on the same server as a teuton…by the name JAMMY…visage is a gaul and an alliance in himself…ranked 3rd on the server i think behind mortus and someelse i think…
JAMMY
1 Nov 09 at 9:07 pm
Hey I am about to start the new server, server 10, and I like the gaul guide but when should I upgrade my crannies. Thanx for the awesome Gaul Guide though.
ningiua
4 Nov 09 at 6:48 am
i love travian……..i thank you for guiding me and my only one ally……..hahaha……thanks ……but its hard to keep out of sight…………i have my time halved by the real world…..school……..byee……=)..
p.s…….merry christmas!!!!!!
LordEdward
12 Nov 09 at 11:51 am
This guide is rubbish.
Gaul Fanatic
4 Feb 10 at 4:09 pm
that is not a verry good way to play realy i had started 2 weakes late to be set further away from the center lots of inactives there and now i get a total of 120,000 resourses a day from 5 vilages and i have 7000 troops
chris
21 Feb 10 at 3:09 am
What i don’t get:
you tell to start immediately when server starts.
how can you get TT’s in 3 days then by raiding, since about the shortest new player protection is around 2 days.
(also, are those times on speed or not)
Shorack
31 May 10 at 3:27 pm
i like travians but i have school, life, and other stuff to do as well and find it hardto live on a computer
mat din
25 Aug 10 at 11:21 am
Once again i used this guide for the U.S Speed server and now I am the top he of the server.I have 50 k TT’S 100 k swords 15 k druids 150 k phalanx 3 k pathfiners and 1.5 k catas.I also have 3 chiefs.Thanks 2 u daily I raid ateast 2 million resources.
Combo
22 Oct 10 at 3:11 pm
Good guide but please make the middle/end game guide!!!!
You have to D:!
I have a question.
On speed you upgrade you resource tiles,do you do this on 1x too? If so which day??
Which first etc.. D:
A little bit more detaljed.
Mirnes Sabaredzovic
21 Nov 10 at 5:26 pm
I’m on the U.S speed server 5x and I find myself doing good… until i read this… O_o. But I can definatly say that traps do help if you have enough of them, they help repulse early raids and small to med. attacks. My name is Razgriz1 in the speed server
Razgriz1
16 Dec 10 at 5:11 am
Trust me. You don’t want to choose Gaul as your tribe. Why ? because, even though, you will have a easy start, you will regret it endgame. Mostly because it will come down to Crop/att-def ratio and romans are best at that. And teutons have low-training time, so they can easily produce a large army within a small time period. So if it is your first time, then choose gauls to learn the basics, but otherwise, stick to romans or teutons.
Anonymous
19 Jun 11 at 12:04 pm
I Think this is a great idea and all, but if I were you I would make a trapper and start trapping some of those teuton that are attacking you. They will probably attack you early and so you should capture them before they get any defence troops that they don’t want to attack with. You will get TTs much faster with the extra income of the teutons you’ll be farming and once you get TTs, they will kill the spears that the teatons haven’t been able to build because of all their loss of resources. You would take control of your area in seconds! Also, I would upgrade your resource tiles higher, like maybe 1 a day after you have finished a majority of the quests. Maybe not the all to 5 one but close. I will be sure to use this in the 2012 championships. If anyone is going there leave a post in this cause I would love to go to the championships with some friends!
Travian Guy
22 Nov 11 at 2:04 am