Allies are worth about 4% more than you pay for them.... a ROUGH guide to plunder bonus/building: 500k for a L4 guild 200k for T2 military 300k for T3 military add up all your buildings- that is about where your max plunder value will be. Take that # and divide by .002 and that is about how much in allies you should own. Ie. say you have 5 Forges (1mil in plunder) and 6 Guilds (3mil in plunder)- your ally bonus to plunder SHOULD be in the area of 4mil. Given that approximation, get 2B in allies and test for max plunder. the 'start' of 6 T2 military should let you hit TFO- it's the best (in terms of time/$/size) for a start eb. once you upgrade to 6 T3 military- Origins/Ambush/NML. Lot's of cash + items, shouldn't take long to upgrade into Haunts- the king of all $$ ebs.