TEUTON GUIDES
The Teutons are a fast paced, time consuming, delicate tribe. With Teutons you can fail just as easy as you can succeed; trust me, I've failed many times over my 1 1/2 years of playing Travian. Over this time I have learned much about the technique of Teutons and I would like to educate those who are not quite sure how to succeed as a Teuton.
Before you play, you should know that being successful as a Teuton takes much time and you should be willing to throw in enough money for at least 100 Gold a month. To help cut down on the cost of gold and amount of time I would suggest finding 3 other quality players to dual with you on your account. The only problem with dualing is that you have to keep communication between all of you and make sure you all are working towards the same goals on the accounts. Having more people makes it easier for you to succeed, but it also is much more of a challenge to make sure everything on the account goes right.
Starting off:
So you know when the server starts? You've got everything lined up and ready to roll come the first day? Don't start on the first day!...or even the first 3 or 4 days for that matter. The further from the center you are the better the farming will be. There is a possibility of you starting after the 3rd day and replacing a deleted account closer to the center. In that case, look around your map and see if there are any competitive farmers. If not that means you have a perfect spot, instead of starting further out and having several hours travel time for troops until Beginners Protection (BP) expires on the farms near you, you will have quick travel times for a faster start.
Generally I start an account on the first day and set it to delete as soon as I activate it, this allows me to search all over the quads for the best quad for my serious account. What I look for in a quad is: croppers - I want to see several 125% 15c's and a couple 150% 15c's in the quad, this way I have better chances of settling a good cropper. Player density, the more players in a quad, the more farms as well as more competition - this makes for a fun round. These first three days when nobody can attack are ideal for searching for the right cropper and quad, as once you can start to attack you will not have any free time to search for croppers (you shouldn't at least).
Once I have found the best quad and written down the coords of the best croppers I wait until day 3, after my first account is deleted, to start my real account.
Day 1:
So you have picked your favorite quad, your duals are all lined up, and you have some gold to start off with. Get to building macemen as soon as possible. This means build the following in this order:
Mainbuilding to level 3
Rally Point level 1
Barracks level 1
2 Macemen
While these are building search around for the nearest 8 pop or under to attack as soon as the second maceman is done. The travel time for this may be several hours one way, but by the time your troops come back you will have farms closer off of BP. The reason I say look for someone 8 pop or under is because by 9 pop players can have a rat or troops. This early you do not want to be losing any macemen.
By the time your troops come back you should have 3-5 macemen, maybe more depending on how many resources you took on your first attack and how long the travel time for the attack was. Again, look for the closest 8 pop or under and send all of your macemen out to that player. When your troops come back keep doing this until BP comes off in your 7x7. Once you get to 10 troops and BP hasn't come off in your 7x7 split up the troops and continue attacking the nearest 8 pop's or under.
Once BP has reached you 7x7 you should have at least 10 troops. Start raiding the small pop players in your 7x7. Send about 5 troops in your first attack to the farms in your 7x7, don't be afraid of population size. Generally, high pops this early means they are simming and have no troops. Watch out for those around 9-15 population that aren't growing as they are probably building only troops just like you.
After you have hit a farm with your 5 troops determine if the raid came back full. If so send another 3-5 troops. If the raid comes back full again send another 5-7 troops. Keep doing so until the raid does not come back full. Also, keep track of the BP times in your 7x7, if there is a small guy who hasn't grown coming out of BP send 10-15 troops to him. He will have around 800 of each resource and you want all of those.
Continue farming in this method and keep resources down in the farms in your 7x7. As farms in your 7x7 are emptied start venturing into your 13x13 and 21x21 using the same technique. Do not be afraid to send large raiding parties to people you know have resources and do not be afraid to attack anyone. You need to let them know you are dominating this 21x21 (you will be farming further out in a few days of course) and everyone in it are farms. After about 24 hours of this you should have 30-40 maces and still only be at 9 population. Once you reach a negative wheat of 40-50 I suggest you build wheat fields to maintain that number. It may look great to have -300 wheat per hour, but if you are attacked and you need to spend down chances are troops will starve with that high of a negative wheat.
Day 2:
Continue the same methods as Day 1. Farm further and further out, keep your negative wheat manageable, and keep macemen building at all times! Once you get macemen trained for about an hour work towards getting a market place, this market place will allow you to NPC resources to build even more macemen. So on Day 2 (with maces training for an hour or more) build:
Warehouse level 1
Granary level 1
Market Place level 1
NPC resources to build more troops. Build wheat fields as needed. As troop training times become greater upgrade your barracks, if you are doing everything right you will need to have your barracks at level 3-5 by the end of today to cut down on macmen training times.
Day 3:
You should have over 100 macemen by now and no more than 30 pop and you should be using the same farming methods while farming further and further out. Your negative wheat should be around 50 and your macemen should be training at all times. This is what you will need to do today:
Do all of the quests - choose the Military route (You get ~4000 resources for doing them and many you have already done)
Mainbuilding to level 10 once quests are done
(Upgrade granary and warehouse to meet each mainbuilding levels requirements)
Make sure macemen are constantly training! They are the priority! Do not upgrade a mainbuilding level if the training time is less than 30 minutes.
Day 4:
Today you should have over 150 macemen and 50-70 population depending on your wheat field levels and how far you got on the mainbuilding yesterday. Continue farming with the same method of resending the appropriate number of troops to farms who give you full raids while leaving farms that are empty be for a few hours before returning back to them. Continue focusing on building macemen and keeping your wheat fields at an appropriate level. Today your goals will be as follows:
Academy to level 10
Town Hall to level 1
Warehouse to level 7
Granary to level 5
Upgrade barracks if needed
Do this while keeping maces in training. Once that is done start saving for a party while keeping maces in training.
Day 5:
You should be ready to throw your first party sometime this morning. Throw it as soon as possible. You should also have attacked everybody in your 21x21, now you will change your farming habits some.
Send out raids to everyone in your 21x21, when you read the reports send back at least 2 troops if the raid is not full. Even if you get zero's or other small numbers resend at least 2 troops! If you get full raids resend the appropriate number of troops. You should not need to look at your map to farm anymore, you should be raiding from your reports. Do not read new reports unless you have troops home to resend to that farm. If all of your reports are read and you still have troops home go make farms further out.
Once your party is going you will need to do the following today:
Get residence as high as possible while keeping macemen in training. You should get it to at least level 5. Start saving for your second party based on how much you are raiding. If you are raiding 20k resource per hour, start saving 1 1/2 hours before the party is done. 10k resources per hour, begin saving 2 1/2 hours before party is done, and so on. More than likely you will need to start saving 4 hours before your party is done.
Day 6:
Today continue the same raiding habits. You should be at around 100 pop or more with 200-300 or more troops. Throw your 2nd party as soon as your first one is done.
Today work on:
Finish residence
Get granary to level 8
Get warehouse to level 8
You should be farming everyone in your 21x21 and be pushing on farming people 3 hours out now. Troops should constantly be in training.
The Teutons are a fast paced, time consuming, delicate tribe. With Teutons you can fail just as easy as you can succeed; trust me, I've failed many times over my 1 1/2 years of playing Travian. Over this time I have learned much about the technique of Teutons and I would like to educate those who are not quite sure how to succeed as a Teuton.
Before you play, you should know that being successful as a Teuton takes much time and you should be willing to throw in enough money for at least 100 Gold a month. To help cut down on the cost of gold and amount of time I would suggest finding 3 other quality players to dual with you on your account. The only problem with dualing is that you have to keep communication between all of you and make sure you all are working towards the same goals on the accounts. Having more people makes it easier for you to succeed, but it also is much more of a challenge to make sure everything on the account goes right.
Starting off:
So you know when the server starts? You've got everything lined up and ready to roll come the first day? Don't start on the first day!...or even the first 3 or 4 days for that matter. The further from the center you are the better the farming will be. There is a possibility of you starting after the 3rd day and replacing a deleted account closer to the center. In that case, look around your map and see if there are any competitive farmers. If not that means you have a perfect spot, instead of starting further out and having several hours travel time for troops until Beginners Protection (BP) expires on the farms near you, you will have quick travel times for a faster start.
Generally I start an account on the first day and set it to delete as soon as I activate it, this allows me to search all over the quads for the best quad for my serious account. What I look for in a quad is: croppers - I want to see several 125% 15c's and a couple 150% 15c's in the quad, this way I have better chances of settling a good cropper. Player density, the more players in a quad, the more farms as well as more competition - this makes for a fun round. These first three days when nobody can attack are ideal for searching for the right cropper and quad, as once you can start to attack you will not have any free time to search for croppers (you shouldn't at least).
Once I have found the best quad and written down the coords of the best croppers I wait until day 3, after my first account is deleted, to start my real account.
Day 1:
So you have picked your favorite quad, your duals are all lined up, and you have some gold to start off with. Get to building macemen as soon as possible. This means build the following in this order:
Mainbuilding to level 3
Rally Point level 1
Barracks level 1
2 Macemen
While these are building search around for the nearest 8 pop or under to attack as soon as the second maceman is done. The travel time for this may be several hours one way, but by the time your troops come back you will have farms closer off of BP. The reason I say look for someone 8 pop or under is because by 9 pop players can have a rat or troops. This early you do not want to be losing any macemen.
By the time your troops come back you should have 3-5 macemen, maybe more depending on how many resources you took on your first attack and how long the travel time for the attack was. Again, look for the closest 8 pop or under and send all of your macemen out to that player. When your troops come back keep doing this until BP comes off in your 7x7. Once you get to 10 troops and BP hasn't come off in your 7x7 split up the troops and continue attacking the nearest 8 pop's or under.
Once BP has reached you 7x7 you should have at least 10 troops. Start raiding the small pop players in your 7x7. Send about 5 troops in your first attack to the farms in your 7x7, don't be afraid of population size. Generally, high pops this early means they are simming and have no troops. Watch out for those around 9-15 population that aren't growing as they are probably building only troops just like you.
After you have hit a farm with your 5 troops determine if the raid came back full. If so send another 3-5 troops. If the raid comes back full again send another 5-7 troops. Keep doing so until the raid does not come back full. Also, keep track of the BP times in your 7x7, if there is a small guy who hasn't grown coming out of BP send 10-15 troops to him. He will have around 800 of each resource and you want all of those.
Continue farming in this method and keep resources down in the farms in your 7x7. As farms in your 7x7 are emptied start venturing into your 13x13 and 21x21 using the same technique. Do not be afraid to send large raiding parties to people you know have resources and do not be afraid to attack anyone. You need to let them know you are dominating this 21x21 (you will be farming further out in a few days of course) and everyone in it are farms. After about 24 hours of this you should have 30-40 maces and still only be at 9 population. Once you reach a negative wheat of 40-50 I suggest you build wheat fields to maintain that number. It may look great to have -300 wheat per hour, but if you are attacked and you need to spend down chances are troops will starve with that high of a negative wheat.
Day 2:
Continue the same methods as Day 1. Farm further and further out, keep your negative wheat manageable, and keep macemen building at all times! Once you get macemen trained for about an hour work towards getting a market place, this market place will allow you to NPC resources to build even more macemen. So on Day 2 (with maces training for an hour or more) build:
Warehouse level 1
Granary level 1
Market Place level 1
NPC resources to build more troops. Build wheat fields as needed. As troop training times become greater upgrade your barracks, if you are doing everything right you will need to have your barracks at level 3-5 by the end of today to cut down on macmen training times.
Day 3:
You should have over 100 macemen by now and no more than 30 pop and you should be using the same farming methods while farming further and further out. Your negative wheat should be around 50 and your macemen should be training at all times. This is what you will need to do today:
Do all of the quests - choose the Military route (You get ~4000 resources for doing them and many you have already done)
Mainbuilding to level 10 once quests are done
(Upgrade granary and warehouse to meet each mainbuilding levels requirements)
Make sure macemen are constantly training! They are the priority! Do not upgrade a mainbuilding level if the training time is less than 30 minutes.
Day 4:
Today you should have over 150 macemen and 50-70 population depending on your wheat field levels and how far you got on the mainbuilding yesterday. Continue farming with the same method of resending the appropriate number of troops to farms who give you full raids while leaving farms that are empty be for a few hours before returning back to them. Continue focusing on building macemen and keeping your wheat fields at an appropriate level. Today your goals will be as follows:
Academy to level 10
Town Hall to level 1
Warehouse to level 7
Granary to level 5
Upgrade barracks if needed
Do this while keeping maces in training. Once that is done start saving for a party while keeping maces in training.
Day 5:
You should be ready to throw your first party sometime this morning. Throw it as soon as possible. You should also have attacked everybody in your 21x21, now you will change your farming habits some.
Send out raids to everyone in your 21x21, when you read the reports send back at least 2 troops if the raid is not full. Even if you get zero's or other small numbers resend at least 2 troops! If you get full raids resend the appropriate number of troops. You should not need to look at your map to farm anymore, you should be raiding from your reports. Do not read new reports unless you have troops home to resend to that farm. If all of your reports are read and you still have troops home go make farms further out.
Once your party is going you will need to do the following today:
Get residence as high as possible while keeping macemen in training. You should get it to at least level 5. Start saving for your second party based on how much you are raiding. If you are raiding 20k resource per hour, start saving 1 1/2 hours before the party is done. 10k resources per hour, begin saving 2 1/2 hours before party is done, and so on. More than likely you will need to start saving 4 hours before your party is done.
Day 6:
Today continue the same raiding habits. You should be at around 100 pop or more with 200-300 or more troops. Throw your 2nd party as soon as your first one is done.
Today work on:
Finish residence
Get granary to level 8
Get warehouse to level 8
You should be farming everyone in your 21x21 and be pushing on farming people 3 hours out now. Troops should constantly be in training.
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