NorthEast
Italians, italians and everywhere italians, both ingame and on the forum – which is quite fun since they are not allowed to play Tournament officially. And to be honest our forum probably should be quite boring without them 😀 As long they keep their internal banting on their home server 😛
That don’t stop them though, it’s too enticing to play against the supposed best players in the world. I’m writing supposed because due to the problems in the latest Finals and due to the new detection system we have lost many of the most skilled players. The latter because the system seems to have problems to separate skilled highly active players from players abusing the system.
Of course it’s probably possible that those high ranked players that have quit have done that because they can’t play without the support from bots and multies or tech 😛 In opposition other skilled players have quit because they in their turn have tired on the too common cheating in Finals.
So we have less players than before but those that still play are committed and still have fun. Most of them at least. There are those that have moved far out and don’t have much impact on the game.
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Together the 3 groups in Uollas meta has a little more than 900 players.
On the first map we have the Italians. They have 2 strongholds, one close to center and one (SPQR) in the NW area, a strategy that gave them extra artefacts since no alliance from Exodus challenged them there.
Wallace, Uollas and a couple of players from NØA are very active at the NW border and seems to enjoy the fighting with the Exodus alliances.
I made a table based on ingame ranks and gettertools. They was from before artefacts so I’ve spent the last days to update them. When it comes to Chiefed/Lost villages you have to check details to see if it’s real ones or not. I’ve checked the top2 to 3 cases.
Uollas have taken most from Thai and lost most to Exodus.
Wallace have taken from Luzeri, Hunor, Thai and lost to Exodus, Hunor, Magor.
NØA Have taken most from unknown (players without alliance) and Thai. Lost to Thai and themselves.
HCK has taken from Templars (former Knights) and unknown, lost to TG, themselves and Smurfs.
SPQR (all three) have lost start villages, mostly to Exodus and taken some from HUN.
Vodka lost to Uollas and Templars.
STOP ROSIK! from UollasL
Q. Tell us about yourself and your alliance. Male/female, age, profession. What to you do when you’re not playing Travian? Do you have duals?
How long have you/your alliance played in the Tournament? Where does your alliance come from? Have you played together before ?*
A. Hello, I’m Ros, 23yo boy from south Italy, and I’m medical student so when I don’t play travian I study and do all things young people do 😀
Yes I have two duals, Ludo and Betta, no way to play finals alone and as one of the main leaders. I played almost all tournament servers with my alliance, just missed some. We are an old-made alliance and we play travian from many many years back. Uollas alliance was born in Italian server but from some server we have a lot of foreign player in our ally from all over the world 😀
Q. What do you know about other quads and what is happening there? Which meta do you think is your greatest opponent for the victory and why?
A. About the other quad:
-/+ is populated by Dacia/Exodus meta, turks seems already dead thanks to smurfs/rush alliances. There are also SPQR that was able to take some good artifact from their quad. Anyway having NAP with all -/- they are focusing only on us, doing war on borders.
-/- is populated by russian meta and some german alliances, but I think for russian is a quiet server this year, for this reason they are for sure our great opponents (talking about WW race ofc), also thanks to unique diet and trainers that spawned there.
+/- is populated by chinese meta, ML meta and the other italian meta that we are used to call “pattanza”. If im not wrong MC (chinese) are doing war mainly against poland, while between ML and the other ita meta there was war until some day ago while now they made a NAP, was for sure an interesting quad. Forgot to say that we have war also in this border, mainly against Hunor/Infiniti and Warning that settled in our quad.
Q. Your opinion about Thai/Knights/TR in your own quad?
A. Seems they are not so organized. Thai just wanted the WW on border and we are fighting against them everyday, knights already died. TR are fighting in the outback with arabs but are not our main problem.
Q. Who are your favorite enemy/alliance and why?
A. As greatest opponents I’ll say russian alliances. As enemy Exodus are doing very good against us, they have really good players.
Q. What are your alliance’s main goal? In which way will you support your victory (due to the confed limit)?
A. Ofc our main goal is try to win the server, as every meta in finals. We’ll try to do our best, didn’t decide yet how to manage alliances during WW race.
Q. Why do you think Huns is the least popular tribe?
A. I don’t like Huns and as off player I will always choose Teutons, I think they are the best (also thanks to brewery). Huns are maybe good for shortwar or to do horse hammer for killing others hammer, but as I said imho for offensive account teutons are better.
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Next group of alliances in this meta belongs to the Arabs. They are holding the primary WW, and most of them is in the centre of the Quad. Compared to the Italian table they don’t have much to do.
Classic have lost to !!CS!!, internal and Turks.
Classic™(Former Turk War) have lost to TR and !!CS!!
Rebels (all three) has taken from ВЛАДЫКИ and lost to internal, Lowlands (former Concordia), !!CS!! and TG.
M..G..M from Rebels
Q. Tell us about yourself and your alliance. Male/female, age, profession. What to you do when you’re not playing Travian? Do you have duals?
How long have you/your alliance played in the Tournament? Where does your alliance come from? Have you played together before?
A. My name is Abujyad, male, age 39, my profession is unknown. My account name is M..G..M. Our ally is Rebels and I am proud of them. We have a selection of the best Arab players. When I don’t play Travian I travel using a car from city to city and from country to country. I never use the plane.
My account is not dual. I myself played the tournament for 10 years but this game for at least 14 years. All my players are Arabs from all Arabs country and some of them are living abroad in Europe or USA. The majority of us played for more than 5 years together as one group with me being the overall leader.
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Q. What do you know about other quads and what is happening there? Which meta do you think is your greatest opponent for the victory and why
A. As always there are battles at every possible fronts with occasional ceasefire and renegotiations. It’s almost so complicated. There is many conflicting interests and divisions within big metas as well as between quads.
I think it’s hard to say which meta would be my greatest rivals, there are many unconventional metas and many new players for countries with small participation in such tournaments. This makes this final very challenging and unpredictable.
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Q. Your opinion about Thai/Knights/TR in your own quad
A. Its a good Quad but we didn’t have intensive engagements with them. So I can’t tell much about them except that they are holding their ground.
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Q. Who are your favorite enemy/alliance and why
A. I don’t have any favorite enemy, but I know for sure that we have many enemies that would try to make us lose intentionally if we were in the top tier. I’m not going to say more about this subject.
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Q. What are your alliance’s main goal? In which way will you support your victory (due to the confed limit.
A. The WW of course.
Honesty, perseverance and patience are what we need.
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Q. Why do you think Huns is the least popular tribe?
A. It´s a good question.. The huns have good cavalry units, but lots of disadvantages regarding their defense as well as their offense. Their city wall is very weak against rams and gives very little defensive points. It’s simply the worst city wall between all tribes.
They have also the weakest catapults, which render them useless against WW. The infantry is almost inefficient; their hammer´s unit are the bowmen.
Don’t cost a lot but they take relatively lot of time to produce and they raid very very little only 30 res.. Any Pro player would never choose them. I have already played the qualifications with this tribe. It was a nightmare! You can’t train solid defense or offense.
The only servers where I would play with them is maybe in PTP servers but not in the classical version of Travian with WW.
Until this day there is no other tribe better than the teutons to play offensive with, and they even had a very solid defensive units especially against cavalry and strong city wall against rams. So it’s really unfair to make the huns an offensive tribe with many disadvantages in their offense regarding catas strength and infantry time. Let say that they are defensively the worst tribe.
Whenever you want to register in a server, you can always choose Teutons it’s the safest option for the best attack and a very solid defense. The Teutons have the brewery which gives 20% on your attack. It’s insanely the most powerful offensive tribe in travian without any defensive disadvantages.
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Last part of the Uollas/Arab meta are, a mix of nationalities. Concordia that now have split in two parts Lowlands (Netherlands) and $G0D$ (France), G&V (Greeks), NKRI (Indonesians) and CS. Their strongholds are concentrated to the borders. Lowlands has been most active in this group.
Lowlands has taken from Thai, unknown, internal and arabs. Lost to Exodus.
G0D has taken from Magor and INfiniti. Lost to Thai and internal.
G&V (both) not much have happen here, probably most exchanges of spawns.
NKRI (both). Lost to Infiniti, Newface, Hunor, Templars and Lowlands.
CS (both) Taken from Thai and lost to Thai
Draugr from $G0D$
Q. Tell us about yourself and your alliance. Male/female, age, profession. What do you do when you’re not playing Travian? Do you have duals?
How long have you/your alliance played in the Tournament? Where does your alliance come from? Have you played together before?
A. I’m most commonly called Sky’ in the game. I’m a (almost) 25 years-old guy, from France, and actually working as PhD student. When not playing travian, I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend, my cat and my dog. As a team, it happens sometimes that we play in other games, which, I think, can truly enhance teamwork ! 😊
Talking about this, my team is a French group who was named COQ, that renamed into Poilus last year and played inside NewOrder during qualifications. We are playing all together since several years now, it’s more like a little family.
Q. Your alliance Concordia has splitted. Why?
A. Because Travian changed the way of playing with confederation system, we tried for this finals round, to unify our forces with T.F.D (who were also part of Uollas meta last year), in a new project called Concordia (referring to the peace treaty between France and the Netherlands).
Unfortunately, it didn’t go as good as expected. Cultural differences in the way of managing an alliance, and cultural differences in term of travian strategies were too much different to work properly, especially in a tense zone where we are. In the end, splitting was the only way we found for the both group to play the way they’re used to.
Q. What do you know about other quads and what is happening there? Which meta do you think is your greatest opponent for the victory and why?
A. Exodus have shown a great improvement in comparison of last couple of years. They managed to improve their teamplay and strategic moves. Being in direct border with us makes them, for sure, our greatest opponent yet for this round.
Q. Your opinion about Thai/Knights/TR in your own quad?
A. Well, they tried to settle our area, overflowing with several alliances. I suppose they jumped on the opportunity to install a late-game play thanks to the many enemies we have in that area. Still we’re having fun making war with them, some are showing a nice fairplay even if it’s annoying to have them here 😀
Q. Who are your favorite enemy/alliance and why?
A. I guess all former Concordian will agree to say Knights are (were? :D) our favorite enemy. They always sent out a message with a GG when they failed somewhere, or kindly taunted when we failed. It was a good enemy relationship. Unfortunately, and that’s why I’m talking in the past, we wiped out 90% of their players in our area now. ^^
Q. What are your alliance’s main goal? In which way will you support your victory (due to the confed limit)?
A. Concordia had to hold as most as possible the NW border. As said earlier, many alliances (Thai/Knights/TR) tried to overflow some spots behind our lines, while Exodus tried to enter deeply in frontline. Even if we had some internal issues as I said earlier, we still managed to erase a lot of guys behind our lines. So it is actually going very good so far, for a small group against so much enemies. And will be even better for us now that we’re split up 😊
Q. Why do you think Huns is the least popular tribe?
A. No idea… It offers great advantages in offensive ways and that is why I play with this tribe. Maybe their main weakness, which is the inability to have good enough defensive troops, causes this tribe to be the least popular.
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The biggest opponent is Thailand with a smaller stronghold around the WW 0/100. For being such a small meta their off and def ranks is better than I expected.
TH-90s has taken from CS, ВЛАДЫКИ, NO and NØA. Lost to Uollas, NØA and Wallace.
TH-TT has taken from Ottomans, Lowland and $G0D$. Lost to CS, Lowlands and Uollas.
TH-FF has lost to ND and Uollas.
DisCo_ZoHaN from TH-TT
Questions
1. Tell us about yourself and your alliance. Male/female, age, profession. What to you do when you’re not playing Travian? Do you have duals?
How long have you/your alliance played in the Tournament? Where does your alliance come from? Have you played together before?
2. What do you know about other quads and what is happening there? Which meta do you think is the favorite for the victory and why?
3. Your opinion about Uollas meta in your own quad?
4. Who are your favourite enemy/alliance and why?
5. What are your alliance’s main goal?
6. Why do you think Huns is the least popular tribe?
Answers
1 I am the player who has lead a group of Thai player here for many years.
2 I have a lot of friends in Tournament and some of my fu…. brother(just missing him) hehe
3 Nothing.
4 Nothing.
5 Our goal is to hold our WW to the end because my ally are not the ally who will build WW for win hehe.
6 Not a good balance like other tribes I think. Huns are good at offs but why is the defensive is so bad?
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Turks in NE reorganized in the middle of December. The alliance TR disappeared and instead two new was formed, Ottomans and GF. Keeping tight together and partly sharing area with Arabs.
TR.. has taken from Classic and lost to !!CS!!, HCK and NØA
Ottoman, lost villages are probably spawns and the same for GF.
SÜVARİ 21 from TR..
Questions
1. Tell us about yourself and your alliance. Male/female, age, profession. What to you do when you’re not playing Travian? Do you have duals?
How long have you/your alliance played in the Tournament? Where does your alliance come from? Have you played together before?
2. What do you know about other quads and what is happening there? Which meta do you think is the favorite for the victory and why?
3. Your opinion about Uollas meta in your own quad?
4. Who are your favourite enemy/alliance and why?
5. What are your alliance’s main goal?
6. Why do you think Huns is the least popular tribe?
Answers
1. I’m Murat and 36 years old. I’m a machine operator. I started in 2008 and generally prefer play in final server. 90% of my team left. This server will be our last in Tournament.
We have come with friends who have played together for a long time from group a.
2. There are habitual and succeed countries. Generating metas against them.
I didn’t take a look so much to metas’ situation because we won’t be in the process of WW. I guess will take between Russian and Arabic metas again.
3. As far as I am concerned, Uollas go forward planned and strongly. But can be surprise ending when WW time. Everything depends on continuity of confederacies.
4. The Classic is the union of Turkish players who have adopted the service of the Arabs as a sense of play. We don’t like them. They tried to offer gold to each of our player and draw them to their side. They tried to create spy accounts. They do everything unethical.
5. Our goal is to have fun.
6. Teutonic players prefer not to abandon their habits. I think it’s the strongest choice for an attacker. It will be more popular in the future.
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The last group of alliances in NE. Templar, !!CS!! (Croatia), TG and Luzeri has stayed in the center. ВЛАДЫКИ has spread out. Slovakia went as far as possible. Newface and Božički have small strongholds not so far out.
Templars was active the first month but seems to have lost their energy now. !!CS!! has been quite successful for such a small alliance.
Templars has taken from unknown, Vodka and NKRI, lost to HCK, Uollas and NB.
!!CS!! has taken from ВЛАДЫКИ, ND, TR.. and Classic. Lost to Uollas and HCK.
TG has taken from HCK, Rebels and ND. Lost to Uollas, NØA and HCK.
Luzeri had half of the members deleted the 9 January. Taken from CS and lost to Uollas, Wallace and Exodus.
Slovakia, probably spawns lost.
ВЛАДЫКИ, villages taken is internal. Lost is to !!CS!!, ND, Rebels, Thai and COT (in SW).
Božički lost to NØA, NKRI and Lowlands.
Newface has taken from NKRI and lost to !!CS!! and Uollas.
I began before Christmas with this and puh, finally manage to finish it. I hope to do NW in a couple of weeks or three. At least before endgame starts – lol.