Northern Legends - Game Mechanics

Northern Legends was the 2024 Annual Special of Travian: Legends.


It introduced the Viking tribe and brought new naval warfare, faster growth, and refined alliance systems — while keeping many core features from past annual specials.


Returning Features

Map and Regions

Core Features Kept

  • Victory Points stored in villages.

  • Keep Tribe on Conquest — conquered villages retain their original tribe.

  • Troop Forwarding and Merging, including bulk forwarding.

  • Cities and Watchtowers return.

  • Alliance Attack Notifications show incoming raids and attacks.

  • Naval Warfare and Trading: Build ships from coastal villages to move troops and resources quickly.

  • No confederacies — alliances stand alone.

  • Cancel Deliveries: Merchants and trade ships can be canceled within 60 seconds.
    > Harbor and Deep Water
    Ships and Naval Movement


New Features

Vikings Arrive

The Vikings replace Teutons as the new northern tribe. They specialize in warfare and sea raiding.

  • Berserker (infantry): Consumes double crop but deals extra damage upon death when attacking.

  • Valkyrie’s Blessing (cavalry): Highly efficient in crop use.

  • Viking Hero: Strong in combat and reduces enemy village loyalty by 5%.

> Hero Overview
> Loyalty
> Viking Buildings and Troops
Tribes and Their Advantages


Raid Ships

A new ship type designed for raiding via farmlists.


Gameplay Adjustments

Simplified Pathfinding

Ship movement now follows a direct straight line to the target, whether by land or sea — no more complex route calculations.


Faster Construction

  • Main Building, Granary, Warehouse (and their great versions), and all resource fields build 25% faster.
    ➡️ This means a much quicker early economy.


Invincible Rome ?️

With Teutons gone, Romans were strengthened to balance gameplay:

  • Legionnaire defense vs. cavalry: increased from 50 → 70.

  • Base training time: reduced from 26:40 → 22:40.

  • Movement speed: increased from 6 → 7 fields/hour.
    (Applies only on Northern Legends gameworlds.)


Improved Alliance Bonuses


Choose the Tribe of Your First 3 Settled Villages

  • You can select the tribe for your first three settled villages.

  • This applies only to settled villages (not conquered ones).

  • Losing one of these villages does not allow reusing the option.

  • After three villages are settled this way, the feature becomes unavailable.


Tip: Northern Legends combines the strongest elements of past annual specials — regional strategy, fast development, and diverse tribes. Try mixing tribes strategically to create powerful hybrid empires.