Targeting

Most of the players occupy barbaric or bonus villages. This is the worst way to spend your nobles. If you do so, you just slow down your progress by a new, small village. Basically, you would need to do the whole guide on the new village. Fortunately, Kamalot has an amazing prioritize-scheme. He ordered numbers to the buildings:

This is how you should prioritize your noble targets:
-Average level of resources [(sum of the resource structures' levels)/3]
-Count academy as 30
-Level of smithy*3/2
-(Level of barracks + stable)*3/4;

Whichever is higher out of the four, you should noble that target first. As I have already mentioned in this guide: you should noble these villages at or near the edge of your farming area from your main village.

Your first noble target should be at least 10 tiles away from your main. The farther outside of your farming radius the better. Nobling inside your farming radius does not increase your income. That is why it is important to noble far away from your main so that you can effectively double (or almost double) your farming radius. The same should be for your 3rd and maybe your 4th village.

After that simply just noble the most threatening players within 10-20 tiles of any of your villages. If there are more than 2 villages within 10 times of yours that are a threat, you should be cat(apul)ting down their smithy so you can keep expanding elsewhere, unless they are the best target in the nearest 20.

Continue with that strategy until you have a large area, and simply cat down players within your region that you do not want to be growing or you do not want to noble yet. Only when you control a massive area, something like 20% of the entire that is covered by your villages should you be starting to fill in the gaps.

A good way to decide which direction you want to expand first would be to send out a few scouts. Look for villages that are clearly farmable by your standards, and if the warehouses are full it means you hit the jackpot. The players in that area are not farming, so when you noble in that area you will have free reign of the resources there.

If the village is being farmed, and you are left with no alternative direction to noble then you should figure out which player in that area is doing the most farming and noble him instead (to find the player use: Ranking->In a day->Resources plundered).

You need to decide on the type of every new village. If you need help, click here.

Source:

Karmalot, 2008. Tribal Wars Forum. [Online] 

Available at: https://forum.tribalwars.net/index.php?threads/guide-from-hq1-500-villages.137637/

[Accessed 04 01 2017].

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