Your choice as I don’t have any preferences on this. As for tribes, you can choose either of these – Romans, Gauls or Teutons. I am playing as Gauls.

Starting on a new Travian server
If you starts on a new server, you are lucky as everyone else is like you. The best thing to do, is to start increasing your clay, wood, wheat and iron. Concentrate by that order and at the same time, build you your barracks and create about 20-30 of your basic units. At this stage, you should begin farming those around you immediately or you will get farmed. Yes, increase your resources level to get more resources and at the same time, farm other village to get more resources.

Starting on a not so new Travian server
If the server has just started about a month it is still ok. It will not be a big problem for a newbie, but never starts on a speed server if this is the first time you play Travian, even though it started yesterday. Unless you can be online everyday for more than 3 hours.

Anyway, if you are starting on a not so new Travian server, start with at least two crannies and upgrade both to level 10 while increasing you resources as the order above and building your barracks. Take note that if you are attack, ignore the barracks, but concentrate on the crannies. Crannies will protect your resources from being farmed. Gauls hold twice as much as other tribes.

If you are not being attack, then build barracks and then troops and then attack.

Your should upgrade all resources to level 5. On a normal server, you should also consider to upgrade you main building first. This upgrade will speed up the building of all other buildings.

Build residence first. Go for level 10 so that you can build your settles and open a new village. How to manage all these, that is for you to think about.

Currently, I’m on the Malaysian Server 3. The 4th Malaysian server just started on May 4th, 2009. It’s still early for you to join.

Travian is a browser game featuring a world with thousands of other real players. One begins the game acting as a chief of a tiny village.  It is an award-winning German massively multiplayer online browser-based strategy game developed by Travian Games GmbH.

Not as complex as ‘Civilization’ and you don’t have to concentrate too much like ‘Command and Conquer’, but you will find that once you start playing Travian, a few hours of you life will be gone just like that It is also one of those free online games that does not require a very powerful PC, in terms of processor and graphic card. You don’t even need to install anything (or pay anything) to play the Travian game .

Interested? Join me, I am on the Malaysian Speed Server

p/s town name is hidden for my own safety. I don’t want to be attack so soon

In Travian, you have the option to start out as either the Romans, Teutons or Gauls. I chose the Gauls.

The main reason is because the Gauls are the most peaceful of all three tribes and it is very easy to defend.  Gauls cranny is twice as big as the other tribes and troops are the fastest in the game.

Why Bigger Cranny Is A Factor?
To hide all of my resources. When there’s an attack, the more item I can stack into the cranny, the more I save.

I will be providing more tips later, especially playing in the speed server where my village is right in the middle of other established villages. If you don’t build your defense, you get farmed easily.

I’m  on the  Malaysian Speed Server. See whether you can beat me or not Currently I am not in any alliance.