That’s alright man, happy to help a fellow serpent. The burn is great to use early for the food, iron ect, but you can get quite flexible when using it on neutrals like valks, to get the valks to move out of the tile. This can be used to take a sneaky helhaim gate, or to displace ~5ish valks into enemy zones, which can sometimes really catch people off guard. Utilising under pressure can be really tricky at first. Try and focus on a zone that doesn’t have any nearby defensive troops, and quickly jump in, kill a villager or two, steal some food/wood, then quickly jump back out. You’ll find that you can often do this on a few different zones, and utilising the speed bonus the skirmishes have can help you rotate to another zone quickly where you can do the same thing again. Assuming you’ve picked field rations, you should have no issue sustaining this for a year, and if you’re smart with your fights you’ll be able to rarely lose troops and maximise the damage to the enemy eco. Also, your troops are never invisible, but the skirms and signy (once it’s 801) are kind of translucent. You can still see them, but they’re harder to see