In protection:
First, build these things on the first day (if you don't have 10 plazas, don't build banks, but plazas). 15 homes --> 20 Armouries --> 20 guilds --> 5 shipyards --> 20 towers --> 20 mines

This will take all 100,000gc away, so don't log in for 20 hours, so you get a bonus. In the second day build: 20 Strongholds --> 10 hospitals

This building ratio should give you about 2500-3000 peasents, and about 7,000gc income every day. After you gave the building orders the second day, you should have about 20,000gc left, now draft as money peasents as you can, and the 250 soldiers that you already have into as much Beast Masters as you can. After that log in every 1 hour for 10 hours, and draft as many soldiers as you can, but do not train. When the 10 hours are finished, don't log in for another 20 hours.

When you get 250 soldiers train all of them into Beast Masters plus the soldiers you had when you started (what is left), and draft a mazimum of peasents, then log off for another 20 hours. When you get back, you got the bonus plus most of the soldiers trained.this should give you at least 500 B masters. when you have 400 B masters start to train 100 thieves each time plus the rest into B masters, this should give you a nice 1.5/1 thieves/land ratio. If everything goes well, you should have at least 500 B masters (which is 4000 defence points) and 250 thieves which is very good too.

If you got more time in protection, train more B masters and thieves. If you want to take a chance, train a little more thieves and offensive units also, this seems more recommended, cause then you dont have to wait another few months till you attack, but try to have at least 250 thieves, it is very possible to do it).

Out of Protection:
You have no offensive units, cause you invested in defence and thieves (this is only if you didn't take my advice in the section above). Now you pick a really good human, and send your thieves at him, if he is ripe with money (do cyrstal ball first), you will get enough money to build your offensive units. Train them at first only offensive, and when you have at least 500 offensive units, train them at a 1:2:1 offensive/elite/thieves.

The First Attack:
Now you start to attack, you do a spell on an orc that explored at least 283 acres, see how much defence he has and sends 10-50 more units than that. You should try to be able to get at least 50 acres, so you need it.

Buildings:
You have a little more free land now, and you don't know what to build, these is what you build: First, always keep your armouries at 10% and guilds at a minimum of 4%. Now, until you hit 4000 peasents, don't build plazas. In the first acres, get barracks to 10% also, and always keep it that way. Then you build some homes from the land that is left, universities & temples.

The Learning:
When you get the learning point at a maximum of 75gc a point, and you have money to divide it between all the sciences, learn as much sciences as you can. Sciences come in last priorty after military and land.

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