Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:56 pm by Backburner
Fort farming and pump army, max your training slot, actively farm forts and make sure you have at least 2 groups of units training at the same time. If you don't take resources into consideration then cats and horses are the best to train since they're the fastest to finish.
At the end of the day, if you don't have coins then high level is a highly repetitive and boring experience. The prestige you gain from training troops decrease as your level increase so by level 16+ you will find yourself repeat the same process but with very little gain and even if you're ultra active about this it will still be very difficult to compete for rankings against people with coins.