Getting Started: How to grow your army quickly
Every player desires to march a big army. Besides the obvious, growing your farms to the maximum levels and researching farm boosts in the toolsmith building, there is a method to use to reach that goal quickly.
Depending on your player level and the number of hero slots you have available, as well as the number of castles you have, you should always seek to obtain half of your hero slots as farm governors, half generals. A farm boost governor is by far the quickest way to increase your army size. You should make getting a farm governor in each castle your very first priority. Then leveling the farm governor to ten should come next. Make that your priority, then move on to obtaining the next farm governor.
There is no need to have more farm governors than you have generals to march your troops with. It will do you no good to have 5000 troops in a castle with no general to march them. As you obtain more hero slots, add farm govs and generals accordingly.
If you have level 18 farms with all research done in toolsmith for farm boosts, and add a level ten, three star farm boost governor, your farm space will be over 21,000 food. You take that farm governor out, it drops nearly 10,000 food. That’s roughly half. Below is a screenshot of one of my castles with my governor in office, followed by a screenshot of what my farm space does when I take him out