Gray Zone in Travian Version 4

In Travian Version 4 Natars appear from start game .
They are in the center of the Map in Gray Area circle ..
Gray zone is the zone where the World Wonder is located, which means where the natars exist. Or in the simple words, gray zone is equal to natar area.
world Wander is located in this Gray Zone ..tHERE ARE SOME aVANTAGES AND dIS ADVANTAGES OF SETTELING VILLA THERE ....

Advantages to Settling in the Grey Zone:

• All Oases have a +50% bonus, including wood, iron and clay!
• There are a high degree of croppers in this area. Many 9c and 15c croppers can be found here and because of all the +50% bonus there is a very high probability to find croppers with +150% bonus!
• You’ll be close to all WW Villages which in T4 have a fixed position which is known right from the start of the game. Thus you can provide great support to your own WW as well as strike quickly (and unexpectedly) at enemy WWs and their support villages!
• Being close to the center you have a great opportunity for raiding as well!
• Such a position is great for taking artifacts because unique artefact’s tend to spawn close to the center of the map!

Disadvantages to Settling in the Grey Zone:

• Any villages settled in the grey zone give no culture points! Ouch! Be prepared to use a lot of artworks and host constant parties to compensate for that. At any rate you probably won’t want to have more than 2-3 villages in this area. A way to deal with this inconvenience is to find a good cropper right next to where the grey area ends and have other villages settled a few squares away on normal terrain.
• Being in the center means you’ll attract a lot of players so be prepared to take quite a lot of action. A high amount of online time is a must and you should have atleast one dual and some sitters to cover for your account!
• Also, as soon as you settle, the natars will launch catapult attacks at you.

How To survive Natars attack :
As soon as you settel in gray area Natars start attacking u with catas with approx 10k troops from capital village and at same time other natar villages also launches attack with catas on your new village but with less troops then main capital village ..

To survive that attacks you cant defend with your troops one thing u can do is just do not let ur pop down then 1 pop as natars will send attack too make u 0 pop.

It seems most of them are trying to do the cranny technique please don't do it until you have some buildings which have population. Crannies provide target for attacks so it can save population buildings to some extent

Your building list must have...

1. Market Place
2. Ware House
3. Granary
4. Barracks
5. Main building
6. Academy
7. Smithy
8. Embassy
9. Hero's mansion
10. Residence(or Palace)
11. Cranny lvl-10
12. 8x Cranny Lvl 1
13. 18 Resource Fields...