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 »

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 »

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 can possibly earn some gold by writing a quality article for this website. A lot of travian players don’t want to spend real money buying gold for the game, so I thought this might be a good way for people to earn some gold for their accounts. I don’t think the .com servers offer it at this point, but several other servers give players a referral link they can have other people sign up through so that they earn free gold. What I’ve seen is that it’s 20 gold once the player that signed up through your link reaches 75 population on a normal server, and 250 population on a speed server.

If you would like to write an article for this site, I will give you the chance to put up this referral link at the bottom of the site and give you a chance to earn gold for free this way. The article can be on any subject related to Travian, but preferably something you have decent knowledge about and that differ somewhat from what’s here already. This is no guarantee for gold at all, but if you’d enjoy sharing your travian knowledge with other you’ve got nothing to loose at least. If you’re interested you could email an article or ideas for articles to TravianStrategy@gmail.com

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.
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