How to play? Might growth and protecting yourself.

Go ahead and farm and attack, but just be smart about it. You don't want to waste your precious might. AND DO NOT UNHIDE your troops unless you know you can win. (a mistake made by myself, but a lesson well learnt) Don't take on enemies bigger than you without help. And most important, keep your resources below protection limits......if you lose resources in an attack, you are giving the enemy resources to further build their army. We need to take it away from them, not give them more freely. Also this will motivate them to attack you more... You can ask for reinforcements by using the + in the alliance chat.