Game Secrets: The Path of the Warrior ~ What is the best hammer for my tribe?

Originally Posted on April 17, 2024by Ameno

Travian: Legends is more than just a game; it’s a crucible of strategy, where each choice shapes your destiny. Choosing your tribe is the first crucial decision, setting the foundation for your future conquests. But it doesn’t end there. Developing an offensive account requires foresight, planning, and a keen understanding of your own, as well as your chosen tribe’s strengths and weaknesses.

Welcome to the Game Secrets series! Today we will keep looking into Operational hammers and will talk about most popular combinations for each tribe.

In our previous blog post we talked about balancing economy and military on offensive account, calculated average costs for one fully developed (cheapest) Teuton village.

When players make a choice about which offensive army to train, they normally pick between those options:

• The cheapest and fastest army in terms of training (for that option we recommend to pick based on the Combined attack + Costs per Hour columns)
• Most crop efficient army which is easier to keep (pay attention to Crop consumption column)
• An army that has some additional advantages. (Farming, additional defence, cheapest training etc).

The last option is the most diverse. Sometimes players pick some other options rather than most powerful or most crop efficient. For example, some want to use army not only for offense, but also as defence. In this case they can pick to train Mercenary-Marksmen hammer, Khopesh Warrior + Recheph Chariots or Swordsmen + Haeduean  due to their quite strong defensive characteristics.  In other cases players use cavalry part of their hammer to fight nature units in oases, and therefore want to have cheapest and fastest cavalry for that due to inevitable losses. Then Swordsmen-Theutates Thunder, Imperians + Equites Imperatoris and Hun armies with the Steppe Riders might be the choice.

Anyway, the final decision is normally based on real gameworld situation, how often do you plan to use your army and recover costs, how well is developed your capital,  whether you plan to use it in defence and in general crop and resource production.

In the table below you will find most used combinations which you can compare between each other and make your choice. All parameters are given based on the definition of Operational (Working) hammer  from our previous blog post:

Army trained for 1 month on x1 gameworld (~1/8th of length for the other speed versions) on 20 level barracks, stables, workshop, without great barracks and great stables, and calculated without any additional upgrades and bonuses. Rams and Catapults are trained in 55%/45% ratio to support sufficient number of both. Used as support army for alliance operations and day-to-day army to clear-conquer surrounding.

Operational hammers combinations for each tribe

(All calculations are made on a  Kirilloid web-site. For Roman tribe Horse Drinking Trough lvl 20 is added to the calculations)

Tribe	Infantry	Cavalry	Rams and Catapults	Infantry attack	Cavalry Attack	Combined attack	Costs per hour	Crop consumption
Teutons	27,093 Clubswingers	6,570 Teutonic Knights	1683 rams,1377 catapults	1,708,335	1,258,669	2,967,004	32,173	60,116
	16,222 Axemen	6,570 Teutonic Knights	1683 rams,1377 catapults	1,512,146	1,258,669	2,770,814	33,783	49,246
Gauls	13,477 Swordsmen	7,845 Theutates Thunders	1574 rams,1288 catapults	1,366,474	1,001,925	2,368,399	31,229	41,619
	13,477 Swordsmen	6,242 Haedueans	1574 rams,1288 catapults	1,366,474	1,124,116	2,490,590	36,318	44,657
Romans	10,147 Imperians	6,916 Equites Caesaris	1626 rams,1331 catapults	1,190,191	1,607,529	2,797,720	38,425	43,763
	10,147 Imperians	9,221 Equites Imperatoris	1626 rams,1331 catapults	1,190,191	1,448,506	2,638,697	35,677	41,458
	12,167 Legionnaires	9,221 Equites Imperatoris	1626 rams,1331 catapults	945,986	1,448,506	2,394,491	34,004	43,478
Huns	24,110 Mercenaries	8,111 Steppe Riders	1654 rams,1353 catapults	1,400,854	1,222,450	2,623,304	29,040	53,420
	24,110 Mercenaries	7,844 Marksmen	1654 rams,1353 catapults	1,400,854	1,092,010	2,492,841	30,378	52,884
	24,110 Mercenaries	6,505 Marauders	1654 rams,1353 catapults	1,400,854	1,470,571	2,871,425	34,779	56,712
	17,404 Bowmen	8,111 Steppe Riders	1654 rams,1353 catapults	1,388,401	1,222,450	2,610,851	28,284	46,714
	17,404 Bowmen	6,505 Marauders	1654 rams,1353 catapults	1,388,401	1,470,571	2,858,972	34,022	50,006
Egyptians	13,477 Khopesh Warriors	6,000 Resheph Chariots	1600 rams,1309 catapults	1,372,639	873,538	2,246,177	36,982	44,134
	36,500 Slave militia	6,000 Resheph Chariots	1600 rams,1309 catapults	931,879	873,538	1,805,417	32,482	67,157
Spartans	9,221 Twinsteel Therions	5,664 Corinthian Crushers	1530 rams,1252 catapults	1,276,302	1,378,087	2,654,389	36,291	38,317
	11,426 Hoplites	5,664 Corinthian Crushers	1530 rams,1252 catapults	993,052	1,378,087	2,371,139	33,136	40,523
Vikings	23,867 Thralls	6,363 Valkyrie’s Blessing	1683 rams,1377 catapults	1,693,001	1,251,651	2,944,652	32,167	48,691
	12,574 Berserkers*	6,363 Valkyrie’s Blessing	1683 rams,1377 catapults	1,451,228	1,251,651	2,702,878	35,822	49,506

For Berserker’s army consider additional Damage on Death effect* that only works if there are survived defenders after the battle.