This is an excellent beginners guide. All new players should read this to increase their chances of success!!! Awesome job!!!!!! STICKY PLEASE!!!!!!!
Nice, but personally Id say go with one beastery and war caths till your next land is at least 900mill and you have max ally plunder. Then switch to hansel (Make sure you still have max plunder)until your next land is more then a t4 cost. Then switch to t4.
That works too. I have tried both and the growth rate is very similar. However, with Hansel you are relatively immune to people attacking you so you don't have random attack losses nearly as bad during the early LC process. Up to 900m land lots of random attacks happen across the Battle Board and this can cost you if you have money out. That is why I prefer the method Sexy has outlined here.
You need allies WAY before the 14th land, and I love how you just randomly said, "Time to upgrade to T4". Like 27b is suddenly easy to attain?