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 sure the other players who are raiding non-stop lose their troops so YOU get the resources that they could potentially be raiding.

How can you do this? Well for starters you scout villages in search of troops.

If someone attacks you, you can set up your outgoing troops in another tab so that just before they attack, you “dodge” my moving your troops toward their village, cancel the attack, and send it back out right away.

Time your attack (same troop type works well) so that your attack lands just seconds (less than 10) after your enemy’s troops get back home. The time it takes the player to click “send troops” and select them your attack will have landed and destroyed his troops.

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If that has happened to you, all I can say is: I have a lot of respect for you. Sticking to your guns and rebuilding your empire a few hours away from your enemy is really difficult; especially when you lose all your favorite villages too: The scout village, the hammer, your defense villages and your warehouse village.

I recently experienced the joys of relocating on one of my servers. My dual and I went from 70,000 troops to ZERO practically overnight. The big question was: do we give up, or make it work? Well we chose the latter. It’s been a crazy few weeks, especially with both of our full time jobs and me being in school.

I tip my hat to you if you’ve had to relocate 15 or more villages and rebuilt them all in a different location.

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…Doesn’t mean you’re being attacked with a fake.

Keeping these articles in mind:

The Counter Scout Advantage & An Example

Gawd I Love Scouts!

Scouts, Scout Villages and Mega Scouting Players

It turns out that some players like to let you think they’re sending a fake, when they’re really sending just enough troops to destroy two of your granaries and make sure they piss you off. I’m a bit of an “all or nothing” type of player; I like to keep all my praetorians together. I had a lot of all or nothing calls, so a few villages didn’t get any troops… and as a result they lost their granaries.

Moral: Just because you weren’t scouted first, doesn’t mean it’s a fake.

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When you’ve been playing with experienced players for a long time, you tend to think stuff like:

Who would attack without scouting first to see what’s there?!?!?

But when you’re playing with less experienced players (or Teutons, since they can build hoards of troops for cheap) they don’t really think of scouting first… sometimes I wished I could have just taught them to scout first so I would know.

But alas! I soon found out that just because there were 3 fakes coming at me (with not prior scouting) did not mean they were fakes… unfortunately.

Fortunately I only lost a couple granaries.

Unfortunately I ended up losing all my villages.

Fortunately I learned a lot.

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The Counter Scout Advantage & An Example

Gawd I Love Scouts!

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…it would become plain to you that I had a lot of fun with scouts in the last 3 months.

If I only learned the tactics I picked up about scouting on ITX… I would be happy. Fortunately I learned other stuff too.

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The Counter Attack Move... with Scouts

If you take a look at this battle report, you’ll notice nothing particularly interesting, except that I just lost 700 scouts.

Since scouts are about $0.10/dozen, I don’t care.

Now what if I told you that this village is 21 hours away from me, and has sent 3 waves of attacks on 5 of my villages.

What would you say? Would you think they were real?

The 732 scouts may be lost… but now I have the peace of mind knowing that someone is faking me 21 hours away, and I have nothing to worry about.

This strategy will cost “pennies” and give you the peace of mind you deserve (after chiefing 3 villages from another player).

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It’s a great trick to use if you don’t want to spend all your resources on defensive troops.

But what if there are so many wonderful chiefing prospects in the nearby area, that not chiefing them would be ignorant and stupid?

Don’t get me wrong, if you don’t know how to protect your hammer or don’t have many allies nearby there’s nothing better than having your villages bunched up. If nothing else it servers as an excuse to attack someone (not that you need one!) plunks a village right next to you (how dare they!). You can also use the Counter Scout Advantage very effectively too.

On the other hand, you can’t have 2x oasis per village if you have them all bunched up.

Both sides have their dis/advantages which need to be taken into consideration with your playing style. If you cannot be on the computer 24/7 I wouldn’t recommend spreading out too much.

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If Village B is attacking Village A (and you own village A), you can always send scouts from another village to find out what kind of attack is being sent at you.

For example, take a look at this screenie:

This village was attacking me, and with only 15 minutes before that attack landed i got was able to send out my scouts and get a report (27 seconds before the actual attack landed on my village).

I concluded that it wasn’t much of an attack… probably macemen, since there weren’t any in the village.

I was right. Unfortunately one of them survived the raid on my town. Still, I knew whether I wanted to pull my catapults and Imperians out of the village first.

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“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 do with them.

Check out the audio here

Also, here is my reply to the question on facebook.

If for some reason you cannot view the facebook page, just log into FaceBook and search for the group “Join To Be A Top Travian Gamer” here

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