Travian Cropper Guide
In this travian cropper guide I’ll try to explain how to use a cropper most efficiently, and what you should look for when trying to decide which cropper to chose as your capital.
Well just to start, if anyone don’t know what a cropper is, it’s one of these villages that have 9 or 15 crop fields, kind of like the troop town in Evony, another browser game. Most people refer to these as a 9 cropper and a 15 cropper. Anyways, a 15 cropper is what we will focus on here. Almost all successful players chose to make a 15 cropper their capital, and the reason for that is to optimize resource production. Cause of the 50% bonus oases as well as two bonus buildings being available for crop production, you get much more resources total if you chose a 15 cropper as your capital.
Another reason to chose a 15 cropper as your capital, is to have somewhere to store your attacking troops, your sweep that is, without going heavy into minus crop production. On a normal speed server I usually also build the sweep in my 15 cropper capital, so that even when it’s out attacking there is no or at least not a lot minus in crop production. On a speed server I try to build my attacking troops in a village just beside my 15 cropper capital, preferably another 15 or 9 cropper if available, and just store the troops in the capital when I’m not using it.
The reason for building your sweep in another village on a speed server is to double the troop production using the great barracks and the great stable. This is when you have 20 or so villages, until that you probably won’t have enough resources to train troops in the great buildings. On a normal server you got to have a lot more villages to produce in both the regular and the great buildings, since the resource production is three times lower, so usually you can just take
the easy route and build the sweep in your capital and don’t worry about great barracks and stables.
I hope these tips were usefull, and feel free to leave a comment below if you have any questions or comments.
thanks bro !
now i know one more difference between speed and normal server
azis
15 Feb 09 at 10:18 pm
im wondering if a 15croper village is the same with an oasis? if a capture oasis then it will be a village? how can i find a 15croper village? thx for the help
mackoy
17 Mar 09 at 11:11 am
Very usfull but there is harfley any 15 croppers left on uk server 3 so i had to settle with 9 cropper
Burnleyfc
31 Mar 09 at 5:25 pm
How do you know where the 15 cropper villages / fields are? Are these the “oasis” fields that have animals in them? or are these “unoccupied villages” that don’t have animals on them?
thanks in advance,
CUHockeybear
cuhockeybear
1 Apr 09 at 6:40 pm
how can i know that i’m actually using an speed server?
pls help.thanks.
alex
11 Apr 09 at 10:04 am
Guys is the Tavern the only way to take oasis or is tehere anather…
to alex:if you server name is 3x not just server 2,3,4
KRasi
6 May 09 at 5:11 pm
i already have a 15 cropper..how am i able to make it as my capital if i already built an palace on my first village?
freeman
31 May 09 at 6:06 pm
Hammers or “sweeps” are easily built in non-capital’s. You just need to focus the other villages on Culture points (for more villages) and a large warehouse/granary (with good production, level 10 fields). This way you can house your troops in your 15c/15c oasis. And use all your other villages to supply this and your 15c.
You need Hero’s mansion to take an oasis. level 10 for 1, level 15 for 2, level 20 for 3.
15croppers are in those “Unoccupied villages”. You have to settle/cheif a 15 cropper.
Gauls
3 Jun 09 at 8:14 am
freeman you need to get your main building in the village with the Palace to level 10 and demolish your palace until its gone.
Then reconstuct the Palace in the 15 cropper.
Hope that helps.
RolfmaoS
28 Aug 09 at 12:45 pm
hello ~
i have read this carefully and as an expirianced player I have some secrets of mine such as free crop finders . you should make you hammers in you capital
because you can have level 20 croplands in your capital and without grain mill , bakery and oases you can have a total of 36750 crop . so with grain mill and bakery plus a 50 % crop oases you can have a total of 73500 crop . with 150 % oases bounus you can have 110250 crop per hour . so think you kept 50,000 Imperians , 250 Equites Legati , 10,000 Equites Imperatoris , 5,000 Equites Caesaris , `1000 Fire catapults , 500 battering rams and 1 hero . so it gives a total of 108006 crop consuption . so asuming you population 1000 you can have a production of 1244
shadow
7 Aug 10 at 9:45 am