build a palidin if you haven't already, farm the barbarian villages around you whilst building spear , when beginer protection ends farm the people without any OD and below about 80 points , continue farming, build to about 50 spear and a palidin, build your timber and clay to about 10 each, and iron up to like 6/7 make sure that whenever you are offline that when you come back your resources won't be maxed out, if you are pretty inactive high warehouse level is helpful
build your hq to 10, barracks to 5 and smithy to 5, then you can build a stable, build this to level 3, you then need to research light cavalry this requires 2200 timber 2400 clay and 2000 iron (this is quite a lot so it may take quite a while) once you have researched light cavalry you should build lots, and farm everything you can without taking loses (inactives and barbarians) now research axe, your first goal is to make it that you are ALWAYS building light cavalry and you are ALWAYS building axe, once this is accomplished you can continue building your wood, clay and iron up.
whilst you are farming, building axe, building light cavalry (lc) you want to be building your wood, clay and iron up, if you have followed this so far you will have about 10 timber 10 clay 7 iron, i will show this as 10/10/7 (timber/clay/iron) you will want to raise your iron up to about 12 first as light cavalry cost a lot of iron, you then want to increase wood and iron pretty much 1 after the other untill you have about 16/10/18 as clay isn't need very much, now at this point your hq queue should be almost always full, so you will want to be upping hq soon, this costs quite a lot of clay so now in my opinion you should raise your clay to 14 then raise your hq as high as you can without the queue there stoping
note - as you are a beginner don't build barracks or stable above 5 for barracks and 3 for stable for now as i think they would make it so that your queues aren't constantly running.
at this point your troops should be pretty good so you should start to kill everything in your 15x15 and farm them, this should actually be done earlier when you get to about 200 lc and 300 axe.
once you have raised your hq up a bit, your mines should be 16/14/18 build your smithy to 10 build a workshop research rams and start building them. Then you want to raise them to about 22/20/24 (this will take a long time so don't panic) whilst doing this you want to be building up your hq enough so stuff builds faster but your queue still goes consantly. At this point you should build your smithy to 12 and research cats and build some of them as well. at this point if you are doing quite well you now you will want to build up your clay again as you are nearly at nobles and clay is needed for them, build your resources to about 25/25/25 before raising your hq to 20 (if its not already) then your smithy to 20. then build your market to 10 and build an academy, now coins cost quite a lot so whilst you are minting coins and building nobles you should build up your wall as it builds slows and is quite cheap so is easy build coins and nobles at the same time, the closer your noble target is the less nbles you should build at the start, f they are quite far away build a whole train, if they are in your 7x7 1 noble may be enough.
whenever you are online and you have troops at home you should send them out farming
- if you can get any account sitter that knows what they are doing for a bit while you are offline (every little helps) then that will make you do lots better, if you get skype and add gargareth i will probably be happy to whenever i can as you seem a generally nice and quite intelligent person.
- get skype (plus add gargareth and he will help)
-NOTE- very brief not very thought through guide so don't flame me for it.