You start with 150.000 gold which you can spend on anything you like. You do get a day’s grace before anyone is allowed to attack you but it is still a good idea to enter the game with am idea of strategy of how you will most wisely spend that money
The page you see after logging in is called your [Command centre]. At the left of your screen you can see a little board, with links to every page in your account.
The first page that you will see after you have logged in is the Command Centre. THis contains a list of all statistics of your account, including Turn Based Gold, your army size, your stats, your rank, your username, your email, your race, your commander, your officers, the IP address's of your logins, your gold, your unit production, your Spy level, your unique ID, your attack turns, your siege technology and your fortification.
You can click on your [unique ID], [Commander] and [Officers] to get the following
{unique ID}
You will be shown the same page you got when you chose your commander. If you click the right number, you get another soldier.
{Commander}
You will go to the stats page of your commander.
{Officers}
You will go to the stats page of your officer, or if you clicked the eight letters/numbers, you will go to their recruit page, to give them a soldier.