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Well, there's a Roman guide on the Travian forum, but no guide for Teutons.
So, you Teuton players, give some advice (not just for me, but others) who are starting out.
I've re-started on S5, and might do it again if I think it's worth it in a coupel of days.
Anyways, obviously with Teuton you need clubs early, as you need to start raiding and be aggressive. But, is it best to skip leveling fields and just go straight for a rax, or is it better to get some L2 fields, then go for rax?
Kaz, Psyren, and TLFighta have already given me their opinions on it. They all agree that going straight for clubs is the way to go, as a club costs as much as a field, and within four hours you can already be raiding as upping your main, getting a rally and a rax leaves you enough resources to get 2 clubs. This seems like a better build for just after the server has started, as otherwise you can't raid anyone yet.
My argument that it's better to start with fields first is that it results in exponential growth. Raiding isn't consistent, as you don't always find people with no army and no crannies. What if you meet an army? Now you've lost clubs, which must be rebuilt, costing you more resources. What if they have crannies? Now your raid isn't as efficient. Contrast this to fields where you at least have a consistent income. So, my point is, getting fields for 5-6 days, then a rax on day 7 could be more beneficial in the long run, as for a while you could raid with a stronger army, being able to produce clubs constantly given your field's income, and so if you lose a club, you can remake it using your income from fields rather than the already low-econ raiders.
Basically, to me, this is like 4pool vs. 12 pool.
What do the rest of you think? I'm about to make my first raid on S5. If it doesn't work well, I'm going to delete my account, and restart going for a stronger economy.
I admit I've always been a fan of strong economies. I can't play Rise of Nations because I basically enjoy trying to macro and get as high of an economy as I can. It's also a slight problem I had when I still played Brood War.
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raiding owns the fuck out of upping fields
-322 crop produciton right now and dropping
excel raidlist owns, make one from the start so you dont have to take an hour to do it like i just did
i just deployed 33 attacks in 2 minutes woot
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Yeah, I'm gonna take that advice along with Psyren's and all of them. I'll restart in about a week or so, and start raiding all the people that can actually be attacked. :D
Edit: Oh, and I'm using Haji's idea of Firefox + bookmarked villages + tabs :D Ask him about it, I was impressed
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Of course, for both server 4 and 5 you have allies who can send you resources. If you were playing this game alone and didn't have a safety net, then it seems that a few fields are much much safer. But if you have bigger established allies who can easily send you the resources to make 2 (or 20) more clubbers, why do anything else?
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Restart on s5 in the NE. Emulate what psyren is doing...150 clubs in under40 village, that's criminal....
Raiding also gives you exponential growth, with a bigger base in fact. if you have the plus trial, look at your trooop graph, it is exponential if you raid constantly.
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United States37500 Posts
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Explain this fire fox tabs way of raiding.
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
250 already? thank me for upgrading your rax, thank me!
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So what does "open in tabs" do?
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Oh My God
I love FF + haji
I think i just came.
Edit: Thanks to your tip, i probably just had the most efficient minute on travian EVER. Even with the server being laggy.
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open in tabs opens all the bookmarks in that folder in their own tabs
still, i spent so much time doing my two excel spreadsheets that im not quite ready to give them up yet :O
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someone tell me what tabs are
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god dammit no
i just spent 1 hour yesterday making my spreadsheet 
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Tabs = multiple windows in one window. so you just click on the tab to go to the window. its a firefox feature.
and it owns the shit out of spreadsheet.
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Spreadsheets are still good for when you're just starting a new account, and you're surrounded by a bunch of newbies who are about to lose thier protection. I must have made at least five 800 800 800 800 newbie raids when i still had newbie protection because i would send attacks the moment their protection was up.
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EPT
