Training Soldiers

As you upgrade your castle, you can train higher level soldiers. Always train the highest level ones (except sometimes to satisfy a quest that asks for lower). There is no need to train lower level guys. As they are killed off, you'll be left with only the top level or two, and that's OK. Always train as many as you can in all the training buildings (unless they are upgrading).

There is a billboard down near the farms that you can click to see how much income you get of each resource type (farms, mills, mines). In the case of farms, it also tells how much your soldiers eat. Don't be misled if the eating/hour is less that the farm output/hour. You still don't have enough food. For one thing, most people aren't online enough to keep resources collected. (Once at capacity, farms don't produce anymore until collected... but soldiers eat.) More significantly, you use a lot of food building/researching/etc.)

Bottom line: you will get a lot of food as awards and giveaways (at the harbor, from Novia, Daily Awards, etc.), but you will eventually find that you need to gather food, as well.

As your troops get higher level and our marches allow more troops, you'll find that you can succeed in fights against higher level monsters, obviously. There are also research areas, equipment, etc., that can help. With all that, I found that I plateaued at monster level 13. I just couldn't beat 14, even through much power growth. I was asking other people, and they said the same thing. I couldn't figure it out. Finally, it turned out, the trick is to send the dragon on the march. I don't remember exactly when you get your dragon, but the key is to upgrade it to level 10. Then it can go on marches.

At Civilization/Popularity level "Neutrality + 3," you get your second dragon.

Happy Clashing,
Lisa Kay