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Tribal Wars is a browser based game, in which you’re the leader of a small village. Your goal is to rule the world by expanding your village and joining a “tribe”.

On the forum of the Dutch Tribal Wars community, several times there was a request for a mobile version of the game. Each time the moderator-team answered this wasn’t a bad idea, but because of the minority of persons wanting to play the game on their mobile phone or PDA, there were always other, more urgent changes.

After some testing, I find a way to play the game on your mobile phone. This is how you do it…

First of all you need to minimize the time needed to load your village(s). Therefore it is best you switch to the classic village overview, instead of the graphic interface. Secondly, you need a browser that allows you to view “normal” webpages. (The website of Tribal Wars doesn’t exist in a mobile version).

Therefore, download Opera Mini and install this on your mobile phone. (You can download Opera Mini at http://www.operamini.com/).

Ok, now you’re all set to play Tribal Wars on your mobile phone. Just open Opera Mini, go to the Tribal Wars website (www.tribalwars.net for English, www.tribalwars.nl for Dutch) and log in. You will need to first zoom in on the log-in form, because Opera Mini will show you a resized version of the website.

With some zooming in and out, you will see it is perfectly possible to play Tribal Wars on your mobile phone. Only thing that didn’t work on my mobile phone is the map, but even the forum and tribe pages work perfectly.

When you’ve forgotten to change to Classic Village overview, you also can play tribal wars on your mobile phone. The difference is that the images in the village overview will not be animated, and it will take longer before everything is loaded. To open a certain building, you will need to click on the level standing next to it.

Have fun!

(Tested on a Nokia 6234, with Opera Mini v 4.1.11355, Vodafone Mobile Broadband)