The following article was taken from Wikipedia. I feel this blog wouldn’t be complete without it, as it summarizes the game better than I ever could.
Every player enters Travain as a leader of a small village as a Roman, Gaul or Teuton [10] with two people—a population of two—in their village. The village has only [...]

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Part 4 could go on [...]

I just got this question on my Facebook group:
“Dan im relatively new to travian. Whats the use of large no. of scouts?
and since scouts have negligible defense what if some1 attacks that village?”
I’m sure there are others with the same question, so I will pass on some valuable information about scouts and all you can [...]