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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Techtree

I find a picture on the Hungarian tribal wars' help-page. I found it quite useful - especially for new players - to see the requirements of all buildings on one picture, so I decided to translate it. Do not mix it up with the Tech system, of what you can read more here.

Your Empire of Villages - concept

By the end of the previous stage you trained your first nobles. The last stage provide information, which - I hope - will help you to manage the mass of your villages.

Ideally, you want all of your villages to have the same amount of points, which includes defensive villages, offensive villages etc. Having similar building structures will help you achieve this and will also allow you to easily change an offensive village to a defensive one if needed in the future.

Obviously, your various types of villages will require different structure levels to be efficient. So you will have to tweak the structure levels slightly based on what type of village it is. The less points in your villages the better. This is to leave the most farm space possible per village for troops. The more troops you have in your offensive village, the more damage you will deal and the less losses you will take when attacking. People usually say "a few hundreds extra troops do not matter", but when you have hundreds of villages, it does count. Another important factor to remember here is production time. The higher your barracks/stables/workshop in these villages, the faster you can produce full nukes, and the faster you will be able to clear players around you, expanding your map control. So for this purpose, all of the villages discussed here will achieve a total of 9714 points (of course, it is differs from words where churches are available, . 

Your first village should be an offensive village with minimal defensive troops in it. How many really depends on how active you are and what quality of players are around you. Ideally you want no more defense than you build pre-LC`s. Actually you can disarm your spears if you control your 15x15 area.

All of your villages should be offensive until you need to produce defensive units to defend against a neighbor that is producing nobles. If you noble quickly enough and produce enough offensive troops, controlling your area, you will be able to eliminate those players by taking their village before they become a threat to you. This is why you should really only be nobling villages that have academies. Another factor in how many offensive villages you should build prior to building defensive ones is the remaining quality of your first village`s nuke.

These offensive villages should all be outside of your current farming area. This way the units you produce to farm (LC`s and axes) will not be farming the same farms that you are currently farming. A good way to search for a direction to noble is to scout various villages in different directions and see where most often the warehouses are fullest. That is where you should noble because less people are farming there. If you do it well, you will double your farming area as well. Now you can see, the activity is the key point of the game. Now you will able to farm two times more.

You can really get away with making 4 or 5 offensive villages before dedicating a defensive one. But again, this depends on how active you are. You also need to put in calculation you tribe mates' and enemies' location. If you end up nobling a village for some reason inside your farming radius, might as well make that one your first defensive village.

First things first, you will need to choose your target that you want to occupy.

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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Game concept

First things first: If you do not understand any point, please feel free to ask!

Before we start the guide, there are a few points, which are too crucial to skip them. It is important to understand and keep in mind these statements during you are reading the guide.

• First of all, you need to understand the fact, there are several strategies to play the game, this guide is only one approach (a pretty good one :P) out of the hundreds
• If you are just getting familiar with the game, or do not have that much free time, do not register at opening of the world. Wait a at least a week, and start your game at the edge of the map. The most professional players are always in the middle of the map.
• You need to be active. The more you farm (attack and get resources from other villages), the faster you grow. Quite simple. You may want to use premium points (Farm Assistant) to make farmin simpler.
• Sometimes the situation calls for something different. For example, resource balancing. You can not predict exactly what the resource ratios your hauls will come, so therefore it is impossible to say which exact resource upgrades you need to upgrade first. However, the values stated in this guide should give you a general idea for most cases
• When the Beginner Protection(BP) ends in your area, you must be the first person to empty the warehouses of the inactive villages. For this reason, rushing LC's is not good because you will not have enough units to empty these warehouses in time. For this, you will need several groups of a few axes + spears for each village. Keep in mind: in one inactive, 26 points-village there are 3000 resources (1000 wood, 1000 clay, 1000 iron)
• For the reason stated above:
• -The purpose of spears = to afford to buy axes pre-BP (read more here)
• -The purpose of axes = to escort your spears so they don't die while farming
• -an ideal target is about 5-10 axes and 5-10 spears per farm, depending on how active the farming area is. If your army come back without full haul, you need to spend less units to more villages. IMPORTANT: use the simulator, you need to protect all the troops. Check the number of axes and spears without wall, with lvl 1 wall etc. Find the perfect combination!
• Light Cavalries (LC) are the most time and cost efficient unit for farming and because of this:
• -The money you make post-BP from the inactive villages will more than pay for your LC tech (more information about tech system: link)
• -Once you have LC's, produce NOTHING but LC's. If you cannot afford to produce LC's 24/7 with stables level 3, then you are not advised to produce anything else
• -The purpose Post-BP Spear + Axe Farming is to maximize your capacity to produce LC's as early as possible. Rushing LC's does not account this economic principle. Once you can afford to produce LC's non-stop, then you can produce axes. Farming with Spear + Axes prior to LC tech will enable you to produce LC's + Axes earlier than just rushing LC's without Axe+Spear Farming
• Again, once you have the capacity to produce LC's, build NOTHING but LC's, except farm/warehouse as needed
• Once you can afford to produce LC's non-stop, then produce axes along with your LC's and nothing else, except farm/warehouse as needed
• IMPORTANT: most of the players start to construct buildings to promote their place on the rank list. Trust me, after 2-3 weeks, you will get in the top 50 with this method
• Once you can afford to produce LC's + Axes non-stop, then you can upgrade structures and continue with the build order (see later). Troop production is the most important concept of this game
• Active farming troops will out produce any resource structure upgrade. Of course, this system consumes a lot of energy and free time. I suggest to use the application of the game: it is simpler and easier to send your troops to other villages
• And the most important things: there are several quests in the game (but not in all servers), which are created to help your progress. This guide is not built on the quests. I suggest the following: follow the guideline you find on this page. Sooner or later you will fulfil all requirements of the quests to get their rewards.

This list gives an impression, how your construction order will look like:

Statue

Build Paladin

Farm + Upgrade Resources

Headquarters 3

Barracks 1

Build Spears

Farm + Upgrade Resources

Headquarters 5

Smithy 2

Tech Axes

Build Axes

Farm with spears and axes (5-10 troops in groups) + Upgrade Resources + Construct Market 1-2

Barracks 5

Headquarters 10

Smithy 5

Stables 3

Tech Light Cavalry

Constantly Build Light Cavalry Only

Farm, Queue Troops

Tech Scouts

Get a a few scouts from a quest + build a few if there are active players around

Constantly Build Light Cavalry and Axes Only

Farm, Queue Troops

Market 1 - 5(It highly depends on your resource balancing needs)

Upgrade Resources Until HQ is working 24/7

Smithy 10

Workshop 1

Tech Rams

Constantly Build Light Cavalry + Axes (start to build rams, but not constantly)

Farm, Queue Troops

Workshop 2

Smithy 12

Tech Catapults

Constantly Build Light Cavalry + Axes (continue to build rams and cats)

Farm, Queue Troops

HQ23-30

Stables 10

Barracks 10

Stables 15

Barracks 20

Market 10

Warehouse 23/24

Construct your farm 30

Smithy 20

Academy

Constantly Build Light Cavalry + Axes + Rams/Cats

Farm, Queue Troops

Stables 20

Barracks 25

Wall 20

Build Nobles

Choose a Noble Target

Conquer the Target

Of course, it looks weird, but everything will be detailed and explained later :)

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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From Light Cavalry to Nobles

Through the second stage you improve your farm radius, which allows you to produce Nobles. This stage is going to give a guideline how and what to do until you make your first Noble. Occupying new villages will lead to the forth and last stage. It is going to help you how to manage a whole Empire of villages.

First things first, we go through the buildings and activities you should do.

The Stable - Level 3
Produce LC's all the time. The best units to farm and increase your income.

The Barracks - Level 5
Once you have units queued inside your stables, begin to queue your barracks. Never stop producing units, ever. You will need plenty of them to attack other players and make farms of them or to occupy them.

The Farm
This is the only structure that you should be queuing inside your level-10-Headquarters (HQ). The only time you want to upgrade this structure is when either your troop queue is full & you have no more farm space, or you have troop queues long enough to outlast the construction time of your farm. Take note: if you see the end of the space your farm provides at the current level, give it priority and upgrade it before you run out of space!

The Warehouse
Only build this structure as you need it. i.e. - If the next structure that you will queue is too large. Only have it the exact size that you need to queue your next structure use the market to hold extra resources if one of them gets oversized (e.g. give an offer with a 1:3 ratio).

The Market - Level 5
A market level 5 is good to have in case you need to balance your resources (e.g. too much wood in comparison with iron of what you should have 2,5 times more than wood to produce LC's), but its size depends on your haul ratio as well. Anyway, try not to upgrade this past level 10 until you have nobles. Probably it should not exceed level 5 until you have Smithy level 15.

Resource Structures
Do not construct anything other than resources at this stage in the game. The only exception to this would be to upgrade your farm and warehouse accordingly which will be described below in greater detail.

Continue upgrading your resources until you can keep your HQ level 10 upgrading resources 24/7. This time you will probably need premium to list more than 2 buildings in your HQ. At this point of the game you will need less clay (for your army), so it would be a good composition of resource upgrades: 14-11-17.

Again, you necessary resource levels are highly determined by your farming activity and the resource ratio in your hauls. Here is a helpful table, in the format described above, detailing the increase in production to resource cost ratio. This does not mean build these resources, it is only to be used as a tool to help you decide which ones are the most cost effective. What resources you actually build should depend only on your resources coming in via your farms.


Building order:

000.00 000.00 Wood 0
000.00 000.00 Clay 0
000.00 000.00 Iron 0
002.00 006.00 Wood 1
002.00 006.20 Clay 1
002.80 008.40 Iron 1
012.60 038.00 Wood 2
012.60 039.20 Clay 2
013.00 039.67 Wood 3
013.33 041.17 Clay 3
015.25 047.13 Wood 5
016.00 049.00 Clay 5
016.33 049.83 Wood 4
016.83 051.67 Clay 4
017.00 052.78 Wood 6
017.40 052.80 Iron 2
018.00 054.89 Clay 6
018.00 055.33 Iron 3
019.10 059.80 Wood 7
019.83 062.67 Wood 8
020.50 062.30 Clay 7
020.63 065.13 Iron 5
021.29 067.71 Wood 9
021.58 065.42 Clay 8
021.94 070.24 Wood 10
022.17 069.17 Iron 4
022.78 072.78 Iron 6
023.43 070.86 Clay 9
024.41 070.65 Clay 10
024.53 079.21 Wood 11
025.40 082.20 Iron 7
026.33 086.17 Iron 8
026.45 077.91 Wood 12
027.63 083.05 Clay 11
027.93 092.71 Iron 9
028.00 091.92 Wood 13
028.53 095.94 Iron 10
030.18 090.50 Clay 12
030.30 100.40 Wood 14
031.68 107.89 Iron 11
032.31 096.65 Clay 13
032.49 108.49 Wood 15
033.91 117.09 Iron 12
035.40 105.67 Clay 14
035.53 119.68 Wood 16
035.58 086.08 Iron 13
037.00 125.73 Wood 17
038.23 135.63 Iron 14
038.37 114.34 Clay 15
040.63 146.17 Iron 15
041.11 140.93 Wood 18
042.50 126.30 Clay 16
043.38 149.98 Wood 19
044.10 160.83 Iron 16
044.79 132.85 Clay 17
045.56 168.56 Iron 17
046.25 161.41 Wood 20
050.22 188.44 Iron 18
050.37 149.09 Clay 18
050.43 177.58 Wood 21
052.55 200.02 Iron 19
053.67 190.77 Wood 22
053.75 158.81 Clay 19
055.60 214.75 Iron 20
058.03 171.11 Clay 20
058.41 209.57 Wood 23
060.12 235.64 Iron 21
062.28 225.57 Wood 24
063.48 252.49 Iron 22
064.01 188.42 Clay 21
067.01 245.05 Wood 25
068.53 276.70 Iron 23
068.95 202.60 Clay 22
071.93 265.59 Wood 26
072.49 297.08 Iron 24
075.95 222.79 Clay 23
077.31 288.27 Wood 27
077.37 321.94 Iron 25
081.94 240.00 Clay 24
082.38 348.08 Iron 26
083.05 312.79 Wood 28
087.83 376.89 Iron 27
089.23 260.95 Clay 25
089.44 340.27 Wood 29
093.60 407.96 Iron 28
095.88 368.49 Wood 30
096.92 283.05 Clay 26
100.00 442.75 Iron 29
105.42 307.45 Clay 27
106.34 478.34 Iron 30
114.61 333.83 Clay 28
124.91 363.41 Clay 29
135.51 393.78 Clay 30

This is when you should queue a resource structure:
-Your Farm Space is sufficient to last the build time of your resource structure
-Your warehouse space is sufficient
-You have troops queued in your Barracks 5 & Stables 3 (axes and LC's)

NOTE - it is a very good idea to not go past this point until you can sustain a stables & barracks queue while you are offline or sleeping, working etc. i.e - Your stables & barracks queue must be longer than the longest period that you will be offline for.

The Smithy - Level 10
Upgrading this structure past level 5 once you can sustain LC, Axe queues non-stop & your resources are high enough such that your HQ queue is non-stop. Once you start upgrading this building, you should only build two structures along side the smithy:
-The Farm
-The Warehouse
Do not queue anything else in your HQ beside those 3 structures. Again, this is all meanwhile having constant stables & barracks queue.

The Workshop - Level 2
Once your Smithy has reached level 10, construct your workshop to level 2. Tech rams and start your ram production. Build them constantly until you can produce catapults. This should be about 25-50 rams or so. It must be enough to start off with and will be good until you start to encounter players that have not yet stopped playing, in which case you will not be clearing anyway until you have all of the other villages inside your 20x20 on farm. Once you have catapults, you will then need to resume your ram production at that point.

The Smithy - Level 12
You will need a few cats to submit a few players around you into quitting the game or restarting elsewhere then this is the time to get a few cats into the farm space. Tech Catapults and make around 20-50, or a 75-100 if you feel you will need more deterrence to force your neighbors to abandon their villages or stop logging on. You can check their activity here:link.

Head Quarters - Level 23
By now you should have enough LC's and Axes farming such that you will be able to upgrade your HQ continually. Remember, only upgrade this structure when you begin to experience periods when you have both your Stables 3 and Barracks 5 queued 24/7 without running out of farm space and you have sufficient warehouse space as well. That way you can continue to upgrade your resources more quickly. If you start experiencing periods where your HQ queue becomes empty because you do not have the resources to keep your stables & barracks queued, then it is because you upgraded this structure too far, and should have upgraded a resource structure instead. Continue with this strategy until you have AT LEAST HQ23. The higher it gets, the more time you will save and the faster you will build nobles. However, the higher you go, the most costly it will become. So how high you need to raise this structure will depend greatly on how active in farming you are. Kamalot, who wrote this guide typically raises it to about 23-25. 26 to 25 only saves an extra 5-10 hours or so. Just remember, it is important to keep the queue going 24/7 or the time you save in production turns into extra time spent on production.

If you want to get deeper and learn more about the construction time, click here.

The Stable - Level 10
Since the stables is your main farming tool, you need to upgrade this structure to 10 as soon as possible. Of course, only you are done with the steps above.

The Barracks - Level 10
Now you will need to plan ahead for when you start to clear villages. Upgrade your Barracks to level 10 to increase your Axe:LC ratio. Axes are cheaper, if you want to use your army to knock up your neighbors' door (instead of farming), you will need much more axe than LC.

The Market - Level 10
This structure is cheap and quick to build. The real optimal level of the market will depend on the resource ratios you are collecting from farming. You can sometimes get away with upgrading this post-barracks and post-stables. On the other hand, you might need market to reallocate resources when you upgrade your smithy or wall.

The Stable - Level 15
This is your pre-noble Stable goal. Get this structure to 15. The bigger army you need, the higher levels of stable (and barracks) are necessary.

The Barracks - Level 20
Once you have completed your stables pre-noble quality, you will want to upgrade your barracks to at least level 20, Level 23 is even better and more ideal but this will depend on your activeness, whether you can afford it or not. Maximizing your production capabilities is important because once you're producing nobles you will have wasted some units killing off a player while you noble (attack with noble) him or her, thus you will need to be capable of quickly re-producing your units for your next target.

The Warehouse - Level 24/25
Since your production is so good you will need at least a Farm 29 or a Farm 30 Pre-Academy, depending on how quick you were at this build order. Farm 29 requires Warehouse 24, and the Farm 30 requires the Warehouse 25. Get them up respectively before proceeding. There is no benefit from Smithy 13-20 Pre-Noble so you should get your warehouse up first.

The Farm - Level 29/30
As stated just before here, you will need Farm 29-30 pre-noble with this build order to house your units. Build this before proceeding to finish your smithy. If you are on a so-called "teching world", you may want to juggle your smithy in here but it is not really possible because of the unit production levels and queue lengths.

The Smithy - Level 20
Now that you have your stables 15 and barracks 20-23, now it is time to make the push to your Smithy 20. Remember, you must still continue your 24/7 queue's of your stables and barracks.

The Academy 
Finally, we arrived to the building, in which you are going to produce noblemen to conquer new villages. Once you achieved Smithy Level 20, construct your academy and start your noble production and find a nice big juicy player target. If you followed this strategy closely you will be able to noble anyone of your choosing. At this stage in the game you should have around 200 farms. I suggest to occupy a player, who is not your farm, but it really depends on you. 

The Wall 20
Once you are nobling villages you will need to upgrade your wall, because you are going to draw others' attention. This guide is about complete map dominance in your 20x20. Following it will cause you to both out-grow and starve your enemies and clearing the ones that will not become noble targets. Walls are a defensive structure and since this guide is about all Offense & map control, they are not needed. Walls are used to boost your defensive capabilities and you do not need walls until you need to defend -since you have no defense, your tribe is going to protect you. With that said I will also point out that you only need to defend against nobles. When such is the case, again as a consequence of following this guide, you will be the largest player inside your 20x20 and most of the time your 45x45. As you can see here, you will not be needing to fear anyone in your area. You will be the first one in your 45x45 with a complete noble train*. And you will also be nobling the largest village in your 45x45 which in turn should be offensive. As stated below in the village ratios and noble targets, you should be running about 3 offensive villages before making a defensive one. If you are really new then you should go to a 2:1 ratio, but I assure you, a 3:1 ratio is quite safe if you have a strong enough lead on your opponents. 

Wood/Clay/Iron - Level 30
Now is the time to start spending money on upgrading your resources each to level 30. It is important not let any form of unit production or structure upgrade to be slowed down by the production of packets or coins to produce nobles. It will greatly benefit you to only produce packets & coins second to increa your forms of income: troop production & resource structures. The faster you max out your resource structures, the faster you will achieve maximum coin and packet production from your village.

Coins & Packet Production
Again, as stated above, coin and packet production comes last. You need one more of them to produce a nobleman and occupy a new village - e.g. if you have 10 villages, you will need 11 coins to produce the next nobleman.

Smithy Research
This section is strictly in regards to the 10-level tech system. Here you will see the minimum number of troops required to make upgrading the research on your units more cost-beneficial than queuing another unit. Obviously as your queues become longer and longer, you will be upgrading your tech levels much sooner than the thresholds stated below, however it is good to note that they do exist. Upgrading your research is prioritized before upgrading structures, and after adding troops to the queue. Following the above build order should yield Axe 10, LC 10, Rams 8 or 9 Pre-Noble where you will have about 5000 axes and 3000 LC's and 220-240 rams.

Axes:
0001 < Level 01 = 0225
0225 < Level 02 = 0367
0367 < Level 03 = 0617
0617 < Level 04 = 1028
1028 < Level 05 = 1715
1715 < Level 06 = 2859
2859 < Level 07 = 3069
3069 < Level 08 = 8081
8081 < Level 09 = 8662
8662 < Level 10

LC's:
0001 < Level 01 = 0095
0095 < Level 02 = 0157
0157 < Level 03 = 0222
0222 < Level 04 = 0371
0371 < Level 05 = 0620
0620 < Level 06 = 1038
1038 < Level 07 = 1502
1502 < Level 08 = 2524
2524 < Level 09 = 3721
3721 < Level 10

From Pre-Noble to Post-Noble

Anything prior to this section of this guide, I believe Karmalot's strategy is the best way to play the game. By the end of this stage you will have had nobles. In the next and the last stage you are going to learn how to manage your Empire of Villages.

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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From Axes to Light Cavalry

The first stage has made the production of Light Cavalry (LC) possible. This stage put special emphasis on LC's to improve your farming area. The extra resources will contribute to a bigger army and will be the base of the production of nobles (stage 3).

Let's start the second stage:

If you save up enough resources, you should upgrade some resources.

Building order:

16.00 49.00 Clay 5
18.00 55.33 Iron 3
19.83 62.67 Wood 8
22.17 69.17 Iron 4

Here you may have noticed that Clay 5 should have come before Wood 7 according to its Production increase per cost, however at this stage in the game wood is just more important because of spear production. Again, this is subject to your haul ratio's and may vary slightly.

At this stage, you will probably want to construct a market to take advantage of the great deals there. Try to get at least a 1.5 ratio on your resources. The level of the market should reflect your haul ratio. Do not waste too much resources on constructing it, a 2-3 as a maximum level of the market should be enough.

Building order:

Market 1

Market 2

At this stage in the game, again, taking into account your haul-ratio from your farms and adjusting accordingly, but keep in mind, you need to go for LCs.


Building order:

18.00 54.89 Clay 6
20.63 65.13 Iron 5
21.29 67.71 Wood 9
20.50 62.30 Clay 7
21.94 70.24 Wood 10
22.78 72.78 Iron 6
24.53 79.21 Wood 11

After this point, upgrade your warehouse only until you reach level 6. Keep in mind: your village is producing resources during you are away from your computer. You need to make sure your warehouse will not be full when you (e.g.) get up in the morning.

HQ 10, Barracks 5, Smithy 5, Stable 3

Building order:
Headquarters 10
Barracks 5
Smithy 5
Stables 3

Construct the HQ first, then the barracks and then the smithy. This is because you may still be in the axe/spear production stages during this time, depending on how active in farming you have been and how many farms there are in your location. Then the stables and research LC`s and resource scouts only if quests are available on your world (it is going to give you 10 scouts and 10 LC's).

Queue up some LC`s, then send them out farming to your current farms and/or new inactive village farms, where applicable. As always, use your simulator to make sure your LC's will not die. Send as few of them, to as many villages as possible. You only really need scouts to scout the villages that you're not quite sure if they built troops in or not and would like to farm. Another fun thing to do at this stage is to scout every village inside your 15x15. This will let them all know that you are far beyond them and some of them might even restart right away because of it (important: do not send scouts to villages, which have 170+ points if you started with 26 points). Do not produce anything but LC's if you do not have enough LC's in your queue to last until whatever else you want to build is complete - e.g. do not queue your 45 minutes of axes if you do not have at least 45 minutes of LC queued up, and do not queue 45 minutes of structure upgrades if you do not have both 45 minutes of LC's and 45 of axes queued. Farm with your LC`s. Never stop producing LC`s.

If you are lack of inhabitants or storage capacity, just upgrade your Farm and Warehouse!

Farming The Inactive Players
Monitor players on Tribal Wars Map to see whether surrounding players are active (so their point is growing) or not. You cannot afford to draw attention to yourself here by taunting other players to attack you. Do not attack any active players that are growing or may be building troops. The whole idea of LC farming is to out-farm your opponents and starve them, allowing yourself to grow more quickly than them. Losing troops at this stage in the game hurts only yourself and slows your own growth. Only farm barbarians or villages that have the base-set of points, that is their points are the same as when their village was created, or villages, which are surely inactive and have no troops.

Continue to do this until all of the farmable villages (non-active players) are being farmed. In which case, you must do one of two things: start farming farther away in the same manner, or attack another player that has grown their village. The best case here is to expand your farming borders without attacking another player. This will depend on how active you are and will determine how fast you can grow because if you are not losing troops, then you are growing faster than if you were. But if you are limited by your activity in this manner then you must attack another player to stop him from growing and farming your targets.

Creating More Farms

If you determine that you must attack another player to continue growing, you should start from the lowest point players in your farming radius and move up from there.

These are the only conditions you should use to determine if you will attack a player.
- All of the farmable villages inside your 15x15 are currently being farmed by two groups(one returning and one attacking). And upon clearing the player or new farm you will still have enough troops to continue farming all of these farms in this manner AND the farm you just created.
- Your farms are starting to run dry because someone else is farming them (to find the player who farms you out: Ranking->In a day->Resources plundered)
- You will suffer the least amount of losses if you attack this player because he will either be a good farm or is farming your farms and slowing you down.

Remember, the key here is to do what you need to do to grow the fastest way possible at all the times. Losing troops at this stage in the game will slow you down so avoid attacking players at all costs, especially those rivalling your points. Players that above you or that have the same points as you will be potential farms later on or future noble targets. Once you have your LC production line 24/7 you will grow faster than them. It is just slow at first because you are producing only units and not buildings, while they are producing buildings. The growth for both is exponential but for you the curve will have a much much higher slope.

If you follow this strategy, you will quickly achieve the first Nobles.

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].

Back to The Guide

Welcome Paladin!

The aim of this guide is to make your game much easier and entertaining by making you one of the best players in the famous real.time strategy game, in the Tribal Wars. It will provide information how to build your villages and armies, how to rule continents and how to plan your strategy wisely.

The  goal of this  game is to develop your village and expand your Kingdom in a PvP (player versus player) environment. Manage your village by upgrading your buildings and assembling an army for offensive and defensive military maneuvers. Attacking other players and looting their resources will fuel your progress. Although military strength is a vital component, forging political alliances and pacts to fight side by side with other players is also important in TW.

You can play the free online strategy game directly in your browser in a real-time PvP environment. Additionally, the application of the game expands the playing experience of TW to smartphones and tablets.

To join the game, you simply need to register on the website (EN, DE, PL, FR) or with the help of mobile application. Once in the game a tutorial will explain the medieval war game basics, features and mechanics. To be more than an ordinary player, or a "noob", you will need to follow all the guidelines you find on this page.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2013, Tribal Wars has reached over 50 million registered users - resulting in a very large, dynamic and active community. I am going to write this guide in English in order to reach a huge crowd, but you can choose from a wide range of servers to play on (such as English, German, Polish and French servers just to mention the biggest ones).

Let's start it!