What is the Stronghold (SH)?

so it is ok if we do not settle our sec ville in the sh then kait.........as long as we know we are alone until we come to the sh.....i am seriously thinking of waiting till 3rd or fourth ville so i can build the sh ville up fast....and i know that i will be alone until i do settle but i am in control of my area and can handle that i was under the impression the sh is to keep our members safe...i am safe in my area ....i plan on settling the sh at a later time....

mike get into sh pls and quit being difficult again.....like last server......maybe your safe now mike but who knows about the future....also this isnt a option its mandatory you come to sh...

Mike, the SH strategy is a very team based strategy.It is built on teamwork and coordination, if only half the alliance comes, the SH could very well become a disaster.


I may be veering off into the level of ofdtopic here,so please bear with me. The phalanx strategy used by the Spartans and made famous by the movie "300" was built on coordination and teamwork and more or less leadership, If one man was to try to retreat, or lost place in the pahlanx, then the whole army would have crumbled and gotten overrun.

Although, with the stronghold, admittedly if only one person or only one village was built outside the stronghold, it would make no difference, it would make other people decide to build a village outside. And what we cannot afford, is the mentality that people are allowed to build villages outside the stronghold because what that leads to, is a village per member outside the stronghold. And that accumulates to be a big difference.

So Mike, letting you build a vilalge outside the stronghold could very well spark the crumbling of the alliance's strongest aspect- it's stronghold.

thx simmy for the explanation imin a hurry so i couldnt tiype it out...

guys im not trying to be difficult i am looking after the well being of myself i do not feel comftorble with just giving up a ville and do not feel safe allowing people to over run my area i like kaits idea of having more than 1 sh...my area comes equipped with lots of croppers and even lots of farms and i do plan on moving to the sh but after i secure my area and i do not feel good about being forced into building a seccond ville in the sh as that would take way more time to build up rather than waiting for my third ville...it is easier to build a village up with two villages and more merchants rather than one village and trying to build that village along with the one in the sh

Mike, please, I assure you, we, or at least myself personally, do care about your travian well being. First of all, In my opinion, 1 more village out there in the middle of no where would do nothing. However, in your case it's different. It's got a high FUN density and naturally, it would be easy to defend. With 8 or so villages there, so you say, it would be easy to defend. They may not be yours, but they're on your side. In my opinion, 8 villages is all you need. It should be able to survive until perhaps the last quarter of the server. By that time, 1 village or 2 villages or even 5 villages out there wouldn't stop a Meta from eating your villages.

Also, please consider yourself lucky to be in a natural strong point either way. quite a few people are just out there and alone. For them, building another village in their starting position translates to losing another village either way.