Players of Travian can be divided into two main playing styles: Defenders and Attackers. That determine play strategy and the race you choose at the beginning.
Defenders are someone who attacks very rarely. The main goal of a defender is to maintain and prevail against attackers. Defenders primarily focus on building defensive units and a strong defensive army. Most Defenders are the Gaul type character, because they have best defense units and skills. Although occasionally you may find a Defender who is playing as Roman, but mostly that type of players just don’t want to change the race they’ve begin to play.
Attackers are always raiding nearby players. The primary strategy of an attacker is to build up a strong offensive army for raiding. That is their way to earn resources and improve their own economy. Teuton character types are often attackers.
Players strategies.
Most Travian players start with one strategy and stick with it. The two most common strategies, for both attacking and defending are Booming and Rushing.
Booming is a strategy of building up your economics in advance of building a strong military. You expand your economic might as much as possible and then gradually build your army. This works for both attackers and defenders.
Rushing is a strategy of building up an army to gain power through military might. Economy is ignored in favor of a powerful force for either attacking nearby players or defending your turf. That of course helps to keep resources on high level.
Rushing relies on your ability to steal resources from reasonably defenseless players following a Booming strategy. If you can pull it off, you can build a strong military and still gain resources by acquiring them from others. The potential downside to this strategy is losing. If you lose early on, you don’t have the economic backing to recover and build back up, leaving yourself vulnerable to attack with no way to gain ground. Also their always a risk that nearby players have strong friends which will come and kill you.
Booming might look like the conservative approach. You start by building an economy, which makes you somewhat open to attack from a Rushing strategy. The key thing to remember, is that by building an economy first, you can more quickly recover from losses and replace assets and build an army. Most of the people who eventually dominate their corner of Travian succeed by Booming first and then shifting to an attack strategy after they’ve built a strong economy.
Of course you always find you own strategy by combine this ones in different proportions.
source : http://www.browsergamesdigest.com/travian-player-types-and-strategies/
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