‘Travian Guides’ Archive

Travian Guides are detailed guides and walk-throughs to help you with the basics of starting a Travian kingdom. These guides will prepare you to give up your life as a farm and start raiding like a farmer. I attempt to walk you through the start process in a time line that most players can reach without extreme activity. Any good Travian guide will work better for people who use cheats or bots, but playing a completely legit game you’ll manage to dominate your foes with these guides.

Travian Roman Guide December 1, 2008 28 Comments

Tenants of Good Travian Roman Play Read the guide about how to not be a farm. Focus on farming all in-actives in range twice a day Never leave your army sitting at home, an army at home goes to waste. Avoid fights with players who have army Your goal is to only hit those who [...]

Travian Gaul Guide September 12, 2008 20 Comments

So, you read my Travian Roman guide three times, and your a farmer. You take full advantage of the club swingers fast movement, cheap cost, and quick production time to crush everything around you. However, that was last round, this round you got jealous over fast calvary, and lightning quick defenders, and chose to start [...]

Village Placement Tricks July 27, 2008 No Comments

So, you’re an active raider 10 days into the game and ready to found your second village. But, where to put it? This guide will cover the criteria for village placement.This guide is intended for new players who haven’t much experience with founding villages, but may also be useful to experienced players who haven’t put [...]

Army Production in a Large Empire July 26, 2008 No Comments

The goal of the guide is to teach you intermediate players how to build massive armies often referred to as “hammers”. After the beginning phase of the game is over building huge armies is your primary goal. Your resource production will soon greatly out pace your need for resources. However, there are still limiting factors on growth and army size that every large player must deal with. The first limitation most players face is that offense is very slow to travel over long distances. And, the attackers troops must all be produced from one village, while the defenders armies combine from many villages. However, it is very easy to use villages as storage for your troops. Because of the nature of offense in Travian combined with the power and expense of blacksmiths and armories, it is the most efficient strategy to produce army in only a handful of specialized villages.