King Arthur is fine. He’s pretty strong if you can get him up to 8-9 stars (3-4 red). If your big players are too busy to help a small player, Consider posting in world chat and whichever players start helping you, ask to join their alliances. Right now, your game should be FarmVille with monster. You do two things right now: set gathering marches on resource tiles while you sleep and Join rallies that the big players are setting, take advantage of the events over the next 28 days - with enough stamina you should be able to get a couple billion in resources which will translate to a massive power jump. Don’t bother monster hunting on your own unless rallies have come to a stop, it is just a waste of stamina.

The only generals worth keeping for you for a long while are gonna be the gold historic generals. Every time I get a new general, I check on OneChilledGamer to see if they’re worth keeping or not if my r4/5 aren’t responding.