I recently came across a Travian strategy I’ve seen work like magic. However to implement it there is a catch: You need to have a team of dedicated players who are accountable to each other. This is relatively easy to accomplish if you use sitters and have sit-checks. It also helps to have a private [...]

Waiting for resources to trickle in by the hour can be a slow mind-numbing process. To counter this problem, you may want to combine other strategies that allow you to grow faster. This is especially important if you are a Roman because for the first half of the game you will play less of an [...]

Everyone who is not in your alliance is a potential farm, and as soon as you get so much as 1 wood from them, BOOM! They’re a farm (at least to you)
But quad domination isn’t all about raiding the hell out of everyone in your 7×7. It also has a lot to do with making [...]

Part of the problem of raiding other players is that there could be farmers in the area stealing resources.
It’s your job to kill them off. There’s a way to do this known as a “counter attack”. I was going to explain it all, but MokMonster from the Us forums has a good explanation.
If your attacker [...]

Just a quick reminder to everyone to demolish your Blacksmith and Armory once you’ve done all your upgrades. Otherwise it becomes very obvious come mid-game which village on an account is the hammer one = usually the one with the most population (that is or isn’t the capital). You want to be sure you have [...]