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I have replied to NeXus.

I'm not sure we want to attempt to annex them just yet. I want to see what the reply is.

In other news, the Great Wall of Arcadian's Trebuchets has begun construction.

I've been pining to see Isengarde again, but you all know I'm a sap for such things.

So the message must have been sent to everyone in our alliance. I was wondering why someone in that sector was asking me for protection. You realise if we take up those gauls we have to go to war with integra... which means we are also at war with all their allied alliances... sweatdrop Not that we couldn't take them pirate

Does anyone know if there is a reason they are asking us for help? Or have they sent the same message to the members of every large alliance with members in their area?

My personal approach has been to level up offspring cities. If you try to do too much in any one city, you'll end up not doing it well, as you'll quickly run into a lack of building space. (Or at least, I have). I think raising up the offspring, and having each city choose a specialization is an overall better tactic. One city for pure across-the-board resource production (capital - should be either 6345, or 6444 in my opinion, decent oases if you can get them), one for cavalry offense (probably a 15 wheat to enable massive armies), one for infantry offense + siege (siege needs at least some offensive escort, and pairing it with cavalry seems a silly waste of cavalry's speed—which is their primary benefit over infantry, probably better off with a nine wheat here as siege engines are the most resource intensive basic units), one for defense (any colony will work, as you'll be shipping these units to all your other bases), etc.

I'm not entirely sure how well that will work either, but that's the path I've been heading towards. I figure once you've got an empire established then networking between it via reinforcements and merchants shouldn't be too painful. I don't think.

Also, been seeing a lot of status updates lately, reminds me I should work on one of my own again. Look for it closer to the end of the week.

If anybody sees any major flaws in my ramblings (and that's all this is, without actual experience to back it up, ramblings) do point them out. The only major downside to this approach, that I can see, is its speed as a military machine, as you need to get a lot of infrastructure beneath you. But once you get going, and into a late-game scenario, I think that's when the specialist strategy will really shine.

Alternately, you could probably begin as a generalist if you want fast military might, and then make liberal use of the demolition squad to nix buildings you no longer need when you decide to refit yourself for specialization later. This seems somewhat wasteful to me, though.

I've been doing a little of both. My capital is out of build slots, but I'm still leveling up the support infrastructure (Bakery, Stonemason, Blacksmith, Marketplace, etc.). Twice a day or so I load down 6 merchants (1000/1250/1250/1000) and ship it to my satellite village. In time it'll become my infantry/seige factory, while my capital grinds out the top level cavalry. The satellite village is at 5's and 6's for resources. Once I hit 10's and have the four bonus structures, it becomes a pell mell dash towards siege weapons.

Do the Academy research programs count for ALL of the villages, or just the one it's in?

Sadly only the one it is in, and I believe armoury and blacksmith bonuses also apply only to units created in that village.

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But once if demolish the Academy or AR/BS everything stays researched. So find the units you use the most for whatever. Research their stuff then sack em.

You also only need an embassy in one town so that saves on space. I've got 4spaces left in Hatar, but I need to build myself a residence and trade office, then eventually a bakery. That still leaves me at +1 field which will probably end up going to a city hall.

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People are talking on the travian forums about Staging Grounds. Basically people of a guild/alliance/whatever send all their units there then send them to a target en-mass. It'd probably see coding if a mod ever looked at the boards, but that's probably the closest thing you'll see to what you want Teri. Even then it's unlikely.

For now just a few nice plots of land with good oases around them and build up.


Edit- All signs point to me having a new village by 5pm today yayzors