MTK WW winner

uax-8 speed

idx hammer

Bax hammer

Matrix is one of the best account in the server

This is a slow international server 10 and is using beta T4 version. So we are talking for a year fighting in the battle field.

I really salute with the guy playing on matrix account. He is trying to tell to everyone that not only gold plus player can achieved higher points in attacking and or even hero. Believe me, during endgame and is you are WW holder, you really need gold to speed up things.

I actually played with him in champs server and not knowing after I made an interview. This guy "I will call him matrix" is absoultely stunning on how he played in the game. When I was logging on on his account, he warned me right away that I could not find any archive battle reports since it is not a plus account. It just strike in my mind that ohhh- I am pretty much abusing in using gold. I can't play without gold. Because in the midlle of the game, I stop farming and waiting only for own resources to build up.

Since he is not a plus acc, he urged himself to kill his troops during the war to free up some crops. This could be done much in offense teuton though.



Oh I will finish this post...my kids asking to play in hthe computer.

ASCII colection from alliances in many servers

One of my passions is ascii. And with passion I mean - I like to laugh about it, because usually they are quite silly and stereotypical.

I have gathered small collection of screen-shots so I thought, why not share?

oh yea ugly hand around your ally name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUNNING TO JOIN UR ALLY!

splashes around ally name - darn fancy!!

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Insert defense for same second attacks

OK, I admit, the title is slight marketing ploy :P

The notion of "second cannot be split" is core concept of travian. So if your opponent is good in sending waves, you are deeply screwed. If you are good in sending waves, your enemies are deeply screwed.

And yet. there is one case when same second defense inserts (sometimes called "cuts" or "snipes") can be and need to be done.
(read when and how further in post)

defending basics 4/4: sending troops home

When all is said and done and attack/danger has passed, its not all over for defender...

Sending back troops from an anwil may be done in different ways according to situation.

Slow 
used when certain level of defense is needed to be maintained. the troops are sent back as new reinforcements arrive so maintaining the desired strenght.

Dismissing anwil
Just send back all troops gathered once the attack has landed and intel supports that danger is over.

Sneaky scout anwil 
If the danger becomes minimal, anvil can be released, leaving back few k defenders, but LOADS of scouts to fend of the possible scouting attacks.


troops sent back can be: 
- Horses (to help manage the crop levels. Horses are also the fastest troops, so sending them back lets the owner of horses use them as efficient sniping tools or to deploy them fast to other defense calls)
- specific troop type to match predicted attack composition (for example, if you expect cavalry hit, you leave the troops with best anti cavalry defense)
- closest troops. Tehnicaly, look at troop travel times back to their origin village and send back the ones with shortest travel times, so it eases the crop burden, but same time they can be resent if attacks pop up


Sending the troops back 

While sending the troops back there are 2 things to keep in mind:
1) dont starve them. Some defender providers have negative crop at their villages so you have to keep in mind who has IGMed you to not send troops back without notice. Also it is wise to contact players who have sent big amount of defenders and ask them if crop wont be a problem and when they are to be sent home
2) dont delay. Tehnicaly the best praxis is to split returning troops by types, send horses back seperately from infantry and hero seperately. So the horses, who are fast, dont get delayed by SLOOOWWW infantry

Defending basics 3/4: feeding the troops

Feeding the anvil...

so... the nightmare, the walk in hell... the grant for survival of anvil - feeding it. 
The keeping troops feed is biggest challenge in any anvil. lets see how to do it.

before doing anything relax. Don't look at crop count decreasing like seconds. calm head is needed. If you are plus user, under village overview you will see how much time until crop reaches 0 you have. If starvation is already happening, don't panic either. Brown matter has hit the fan, no need to make it worse ;) take a deep breath and remember what is written here.

there are 2 dangers in any anvil crop management.
Starvation. 
Once the crop hits 0, troops start slowly to die. Any troop died produces some crop (don't ask how, I wont go in to cannibalistic aspect). Starving troops is waste & unefficient way to loose them so starvation should be avoided by any costs.

the key to ensure that troops do not starve is managing cropflow. the key to success isnt rally in 1 h all crop you can. The key is to ensure constant supply of crop.
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Crazy player for attacking me :(

Defending basics 2/4: infrastructure

the good anvil is more then bunch of sheeps waiting to be slaughtered... think of anvil as fort - defensive unit that consists of troops, buildings, bonuses & human behind it.

Most important thing after human & troops are infrastructure. 


Defensive infrastructure buildings: 
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Defending basics 1/4: setting up

Anvil - gathering of defensive troops ment to kill the hammers
I have seen defense gathering called in many ways, but I will use 'anvil'.


Seting up good anvil and holding it is one of the key things in travian. Now to expand the knowledge, here is things I took in to account when setting up, hosting & dismissing anvils.

Lets start with setting up.
First you evaluate the attack. Evaluation of incoming attacks is science per se and worth a separate post. Someday I might get to writing that too. But here let me tell you few things about setting up an anvil.
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The awesome and inspiring use of diet arty

As seen in recent server...

Great diet control I
This artefact reduces the crop usage of your own and others troops in your village to3/4x of its initial values. Unique diet control This artefact reduces the crop usage of your own and others troops in your village to1/2x of its initial values.

We all know how unique/large diet arties are supposed to be used for maximum benefit, right?

In case if you do not know - hold it and create storage villages for allies where they can send their troops and feed them there, using the diminished crop consumption.

One thing is theory, but I will be honest, seeing how it was used in last championship server made me quite jelous. Since server is over, there is no harm in sharing screenshots. Screenshots is obtained when russian group was having inner quarells and unique diet holder put them out on forum. They were removed minutes later, but screencapturing technology allowed to save it for future generations and inspiration when handling diet artifacts.
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Color text in your mass messages & igms

How to get nice colored text in your travian messages

to me it came as a bit of surprise. Silly, I know, but i have never been good in that html tag thing. I assume its not just me not knowing that until some kind heart shares the knowledge (thanks, Mari!)
here is how:
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