Just a tip, when your barracks is done, click on it, hire 1-2 soldiers then build a wall. Then from there upgrade all of your resource production to 7-9 then upgrade your HQ to lvl 5. Build a smithy and a market. Then upgrade your Resources to max then upgrade your market smithy and HQ to max then build an academy then upgrade all buildings to max but the academy then fully upgrade the academy. Then start taking over new villages.