The server protection days are now over and you have a small economy going on. Just when you are admiring your nice resource fields and plan on building something new, you see in blood red "x is attacking you." For a moment you freeze."WHY is he/she attacking me?" For your resources, it's pretty simple. Any attacker knows that a small population village is not a strategic conquer (unless you have the bad luck of being near someone really big who's not pleased to see beginners in his zone), so he's attacking you to "farm" you. Most of the time there is nothing personal, they are for your resources and will attack till they just can't take anymore of them. Now, our next question is: HOW DO I DEAL PERSONALLY WITH SUCH A PERSON? What can I do to stop a Travian farmer to attack me? I can try to reason with the attacker in a nice respectful way.

Now this is more like it. As an avid Travian farmer myself I would let people off the hook if approached in a nice manner. The deal with Travian is that you need to "steal" from others to be able to grow. Travian is a WAR game and you have to make war from the first day you have 2 soldiers prepared. Still, most players try to attack inactive villages and let the ones who just want to play enjoy the game.

Travian-Bot gives you advantages over normal gameplay. Top 100 rankings, large resource income via auto-farming ect, with minimal time spent on the game.

The game will be almost full automated, you will only need to spend resources
and destroy your enemies.
Bot will help you :)
with much functions:

1. Travian-autoAttacks
Bot attack all players around, all time without stops:-) and therefore brings much resources
(especially for a night)
Set the list of villages which will be attacked by turn and kinds of soldiers with which attack :-)
Also it is possible to use for automatic attacks, reinforcements, instead of the timer,
send many attacks in 1 second, etc.
Work nice if you have many villages too.

2. Travian-autoBuild
Bot able to build buildings itself
The list is set what to build and it tries to construct it every 5 minutes.
It is better even than turn in travian-plus since it will construct that is necessary
as soon as will collect resouces, then the following, etc.
Can auto-Destroy buildings also.
Autobuild work in all you villages at the same time.

3. Travian-autoLogs (command center Minister of Defence)
Bot itself watches all military actions of an alliance, an attack and scouts,
on the members of the Alliance and the against enemies.
Itself shows how many the soldiers has attacked, how many lost, whether were catapults, how many resources have dragged off, etc.
Conveniently for the subsequent studying and the analysis. There is a system of filters and sortings.
For example it is possible to rise and see in the morning that was created at night or for the last few Days:-)

4. Travian-autoTransport (Transfer resources)
Bot able to send itself resources from village to village
It is very necessary when there are many villages.
For example it is possible resources to drive all in capital automatically, or crop to comrades, etc.

5. Travian-autoPopulation (watch behind the population)
Bot able to watch growth of the population and to show in a cut of 24 hours of day
For example it is possible to learn when the enemy sleeps, etc.:)

6. Travian-autoSoldiers (build soldiers)
Bot able to build soldiers, horses, rams, catapults, chiefs, settlers, etc.
For example it is possible to build new soldiers every 5 minuts, at night, etc.
Available build army in Great barracks and Great Stable.
Can auto-Upgrade weapons and armoury.

7. Attacks - Alerter
Bot able to check automatically all villages somebody attacks whether or not
When there will be an attack on village a bot informs about it a signal,
sending ICQ and e-mail messages.
Bot informs you with editable text, with info about number of attacks
and the time till arrival of the next attack.

Note: This guide is for a SPEED server.

Teutons are like marmite. That's where we have to start. You either love them, or you hate them, and as recent polls show they are the least liked tribe in the game. However, if Teutons are played correctly they can be one of the most effective and successful tribes to play.

A lot of Teuton guides seem to give a step-by-step way of being a good Teuton, but it doesn't work that way with any tribe. There is a certain set of 'rules' you can follow, but in the end there's so many different ways you can work your way around this tribe that a step-by-step guide just doesn't explore all the different possibilities.

So this guide is a 'rough' but detailed guide to making your experience the most it can be. Remember, Travian is *just* a game and this guide will keep impressing that. Also, there will only be foot-notes for Gold users, as I don't use much gold so it would not be fair for me to give a guide on how to use it.

Want to be a Teuton? You must play regularly. You must be ruthless. You must be troop, not population orientated. You must be able to handle being wiped.

If you're none of those things, go read the Gaul guide.

The troops

The Teuton tribe has a nice range of troops. Most of them are purely for offence, excepting the Spearmen. However, Axmen can double over as defensive troops, but they're not very effective. Paladins are the most defensive troop against infantry, so these can work as farming and defensive troops.
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I would say that the Paladin is a very defense-oriented troop, with the exception of its carrying capacity. Also, the Teutons don't have any troops with better infantry defense than the Paladin, in either points-per-upkeep or points-per-training-time (they are barely beaten in points-per-resource by Spearmen).
In the beginning of the game, you should focus on just Macemen: they are cheap and effective as early raiders. As you begin to develop further into the game, more troops will be necessity. By day three or four of a start of the server, Gaul tribes will have developed a small army of cavalry, usually Theutates Thunders, but some Gauls raid with Druid Riders. Because of this, Spearmen will be necessary. You MUST have Spearmen by the fifth day. If not, you will slowly dissolve into being a farm.

Axmen are good troops. They're relatively strong on the attack front and with a somewhat good defence for Teuton troops. By the end of the week, ten-twenty should be prominent in your force. However, they are slow and heavy on iron use.

Paladins are essential by the end of the week. They are quick, at twenty fields an hour, although their attack power is relatively weak. Their infantry defence will become useful too. If you get these quickly, begin to hit every Teuton around you - hopefully, they will only have Macemen, and the Macemen cavalry defence is five so you can easily clear them. However, don't attempt to hit Romans with your new cavalry. Their Legionaries have fifty cavalry defence opposed to thirty-five infantry defence. Use Macemen or Axmen to hit Romans, but Paladins to farm the unfortunate tribe.

The Teutonic Knights won't become available to you for a while into the server - maybe half a month to a month depending on skill and longevity of playing time. You need not worry about these for a while, but eventually they'll become the essential force of your crack team of military. As Romans and Gauls level their troops in the blacksmith and armoury, your other troops (especially Macemen) will become pathetic. Half way through the server, your offensive army should consist of just Axmen and Teutonic Knights, with a few thousand Paladins and Macemen.

Scouts. They're so important to any tribe but especially to Teutons. You need to know if you've been scouted and you need to know what you're hitting simply because the troops are so easily beaten. Get many of these - five within the first few days. A month into the server you should have well over a hundred.

The resources

You may think how you can develop this massive army. At the beginning of your Travian career, you will NEED wood and clay. Iron will not be needed for a few days or weeks. With me, I usually have my wood production 200 to 300 higher than my iron, and 100 above my clay. As you develop into a more advanced and skilled player, about a month into the server, you will need to level out your production as Axmen are heavy on iron, and Teutonic Knights and catapults heavy on clay. When you start producing Teutonic Knights and catapults, you can trade surplus wood for clay in the marketplace.

Naturally, wheat is essential. For a Teuton Army to work effectively, they must have massive numbers. For this a cropper is advised. A cropper is a piece of land that has nine to fifteen crop spots. I would advise a nine cropper at the start of a server or if you are unskilled, as fifteen croppers are painfully hard to level without two or three villages feeding it. (If you're still unclear on what croppers are, click here )

The buildings

Teutons are more than about troops and resource set up. The buildings and the way they're levelled also matters. Armoury and blacksmith upgrades are essential for a successful Teuton tribe - because the troops are so weak on the defence front, and even on offence, levelling them past level ten is really needed to compete with the superior roman troops and speedy, strong cavalry of the Gauls.

Similarly, the barracks and stable is important. One bonus of Teutons is the fact that their troops are quick to build. Embrace this and get barracks to level ten by the end of the first half month/month. Below is a building tree, showing what levels of certain buildings are needed for other buildings.

Overall Tips

- Get raiding as quickly as possible. If you go straight for the barracks (including L3 wheat field) you can get 2 Macemen, enough to start hitting people.

- Get to Paladins quick. They're swift and carry a lot of resources, and can obliterate opposing Macemen.

The strategies

As with any tribe, you can't just send X amount of units without calculating anything. A Teuton player will have to do some maths to hit effectively. For this, we'll need an example.

Haeduan: 165 cavalry defence, 50 infantry defence.
Teutonic Knight: 150 attack. Cavalry.

Say the Gaul has 100 Haeduans. That makes 16500 cavalry defence. That means you'll need 110+ Teutonic Knights to beat the 100 Haeduans. This is using the base troop defence, not including walls, residence, palaces, main buildings or the levels applied to the troop.

This can be put into a simple formula, where A = Attack power needed, B = Base troop defence, C = amount of troops.

A = B x C (+ D), where D = any add-ons applied.

Note: I have Numerolexia. This means I cannot work with numbers very well, so if there's any fault in this please excuse it and tell me.

There is a defensive strategy too. It's called sending troops away. If you're caught off guard, there's a chance you can be wiped which would be a disaster, especially early on. So send all your offensive (and defensive if you like) troops away on a round trip for however long you'll be away for or reinforce another village.