forts
1) u can take them and get money every hour. ($20 every hour per lvl) so if u have a lvl 5 fort u get $100 an hour.
ok so taking a fort u need to attack it 3 times. I recamend taking 250 catipults for a lvl 1. lvls 2-10 take the number of infentry and davide by 10 so if theres 58,000 infentry then u need 5,800 catipults. Now make shure u bring some infentry so u can take the resources that r in the fort.
2) u can farm them to get resources.
ok so farming is easy. alll u do is attack it like i sayed up top but only attack it 2 times. Make shure u bring infentry and make shure u comaned. What i do is attack a fort in the morning and then attack it again at night. So u can get lots of resoureces. Now some times if u have enough infentry u only have to attack it 1s look at ur war reports if u attack it a second time and only get a few k resources than u know that u only have to attack it 1s. Always bring catipults forts do get more troops even if u just killed it. Some high lvls have farmed forts with just horses or infentry but if u r a low lvl then I recamend bringing catipults. thx for reading. I hope this helps u.
PS: if u need help comanding search attacking101.