Travian makes me laugh; no really. According to the picture on the right, I have 6:04:46 hours to sleep tonight. If I oversleep for more than 4 min my troops will starve-unless of course I move them to another village (i.e. my capital). But that won’t be happening since I just sent a bunch on [...]

For a reason… all too foreign to myself I’ve decided to put this picture up:

I’m still not 100% sure why. But hey, this is my blog after all, and it should have a few pictures of me… as well as stuff about Travian.
The picture was taken in Prague.

1. Reduce the quantity of attacking troops so you have a better chance at destroying whatever is sent at you.
2. Create bargaining power.
3. Scare off raiders; If scouts don’t come, that’s usually a good sign that something’s up.
4. You can leverage the upkeep the owner is paying for his troops. Chances are s/he will [...]

Before I begin, let me make it perfectly clear that everyone is always short on the points they need to expand. For this reason, this article is for everyone who wants more than two or three villages.

So it seems in order that when you go from 25K population to ZERO in just over 2 days there should be a few lessons to be learned. In the spirit of passing these on, I’m going to have a “Top X Things” I learned from that account, where X is 15.
I’m going to start [...]