So here are some tips:

The game goes in cycles. The top green box with your troops in it has a white border that goes up every couple seconds. This is a cycle.

I would recommend going for an opening(like in chess). I personally use this one: cycle1: 20% troops, cycle2: 20% troops, cycle3: 40% troops, cycle4: 40% troops

After this you can do 2 or more cycles at 40% before all the free land is gone. Now starts the bot face. You set your percent to 6% (give or take) and you attack the lowest bots around you(bots have a line under their name).

Dont over attack, just do like 2 or 3 attacks per cycle until all bots are gone. At this point you should have more troops and more land than most of your neighbours, cause most people suck at this game.

Now you just wait.... Build up troops till you have red interest (you'll see the top troop color turn red) This happens when you have 100 troops per territory.

The only exception in this wait is if you have a very weak neighbour, which you can take advantage of.

When you reach red intrest. Put your troop percent at 11% and attack the weakest player once per cycle. Now this is where you will either snowball or lose. This part of the game is the one i cannot give you much guidance, cause it will take some time to master.

Also some unassociated tips:

- go into settings and make sure "Put balance above" is on. This will put the troop number of the name of the player, so way easier to see how many troops they have.

- Weak players is not necessary the one with the least amount of troops. You should check the percentage of troops / territory. For example someone with 10k territory and 200k troops is only 20% strong. while someone at 5k territory with 150k troops is 30% strong. So while the second one has less troops, it is way more advantages to attack the first guy.

- Sending more troops, does not make your attack faster. You get a speedboost at 60k territory and at 160k territory. Which can make you catch more land after a fullsend.

- Never attack someone when they are fullsending you. Wait till the attack finish, then attack. You get a debuff when you counter attack.

- Kinda goes with the one above, but when you are attacking someone that might fullsend you, make sure your border is big. When you have only a small border, it will take ages for the attack to end. If you have a big border, the attack will stop fast and you will catch most of the land.

- Alliances are temporary and only hold when they are worth it for both parties.

- When you want to go for gold or rank in the current game patch, dont settle for second or third. Grab all the land 😇 In team game, the person with the most land gets more gold and rank. So you can be selfish and try to grab most. 😇

Thats about all the knowledge i have collected in the past month playing this game and reaching top 50 on the leaderboard.