Gauls are known by most travian players as the best defending tribe. This comes down to the fact of three things. The trapper, phalanxes and haenduans.
Trapper:
The trapper when fully upgraded can save your troops from suprise attacks. It will capture any enemy troops without you needing to do anything. The only thing you have to make [...]

I was on the Romanian Travian forums this morning (since it’s been a 1 week for me on their server too) and I was shocked to see a “strategy” for escaping the gaul traps: “it’s easy, you kill your units”, this was the answer someone gave a new player when he asked what to do [...]

The first moment we feel like we’re surely growing nicely is when we make those 3 settlers and are ready to establish yet another base. Even if you’re using it as a “feeder” village for the future 12 (or 9) cropper, or it’s the cropper right now, make sure that village will be able to [...]

I have seen so many Travian players, start their alliance even if they have a very low army/resource count. They think just having an alliance will prevent others from farming them or it would make them better. My time in Travian is pretty extensive. In order to still keep a high position in the top [...]

This is an outline of how I was able to research catapults and have a second city in a non-gold server in 1 months time.
I started playing Travian on the s2 server on December 8, 2006. I wrote the article in January 8, 2007 .. only 1 month passed and I had all these. How [...]