| Building a large army sounds like something very easy | | | | · Not Focusing on One Village: If you are an |
| to do. Simply go to your barracks and keep building | | | | offensive player you need to have one big army. In |
| troops until you have roughly 50,000 and you're done. | | | | Travian you cannot build say 10,000 troops in 10 |
| However there seems to be a lot of players who fail | | | | different villages and then combine them to make a |
| miserably when trying to build a big army. Here are | | | | big army. Everything must be built in the same village. |
| some of the mistakes they make and how to avoid | | | | · Forgetting to build a Great Barracks: On the |
| them. | | | | Travian speed servers a great barracks becomes |
| · Doing Upgrades Too Early: It's ok to do the | | | | very useful toward the end of the game. In the first |
| first 5 or 6 upgrades on your troops right away. | | | | few weeks you need to keep in mind that you are |
| However you don't want to have 400 level 20 | | | | going to need one later on. Not using one will impair |
| spearmen, while everyone else around you has | | | | your army later one when losses begin to add up |
| thousands. Make sure you have enough troops to | | | | significantly. |
| justify the upgrade. | | | | These traps are just a fraction of the ways you can |
| · Forgetting to Upgrade (eventually): Once | | | | go wrong when building an army. You must plan how |
| you have about 5000 (and counting) troops it's time | | | | you are going to build your army and how much you |
| to get the upgrades brought up to 20. Many players | | | | want to build. Without a plan you are sure to wind up |
| forget at this point, even once they have already | | | | short on quality troops or crop. |
| brought their blacksmith/armoury up to level 12 or 15. | | | | |