Alright, so here's your precious Jhin's guide in action. I didn't give up but started again. Markedly better progress this time. But guess what? NO matter where you choose to spawn on map, you will be placed beside a couple 2,000, 3,000 rank villages. And as soon as I get up to like 1,500 rank, the dude beside me who has like 5 2,000 rank villages just sends 5 consecutive attacks and that's that. The morale of the story: you can send me 100 Jhinn's Extensive Guides and they won't mean jack diddley in the end. When there are 5 players immediately beside you waiting to gang up on you, it has no point. No chance to get enough soldiers, no matter how many (i managed to get both mounted archers and spear horsemen, archers, axemen, all of it) and even if i managed to recruit 3,000 soldiers of each group it still wouldn't be enough because the dude has 5 villages and just gangs up on me. The game is unbalanced in its displacement of players, and whenever your start over you have ZERO chance to progress forward.