A step by step guide to creating an attack hammer.

Hi,


I am aiming to play travian as a full fledged attack-hammer being a Gaul gold player with quite some gold. ;)


I would like to know from past hammer players how is it like .


1)What to do during begining protection ? Which buildings to create ? Do I create troops ? Resources ? raiding ?


2)How to divide server lifetime (before artifacts are released of course) into phases of months or weeks and what to do during those phases ? Troops,resources , buildings , defence measures , attacks , additional villages , 15 c ?


3)What to do once artefacts are released ? troops resources etc


4)Finally strategy during endgame ?




Also ,how do I optimally use the gold in the above scenarios ?


Regards
Joy