As you know the game at the start is quite slow but despair not the game gets quite much faster as you get assimilations.

Since I see no guides on here I decided to make one. It's a very basic guide that will cover a "strategy" when you unlock Nomads. Since you need 5 Elf to unlock the world map the build assumes you have 5E/1D/1N/0W/0C.

First of all you need 100k+ on T1 ( Farm/Tree of Fairies/Wagon )
Since you need to be able to afford workshop with 100 Wanderers Max.
Can easilly be done running Magic of the Fairies (5E) + The Power of the Staff (1D) + Spirit of Freedom (1N).
Just get setup a bit use food spell and try to rush masters for staves then use food spell again when you have 2-3 food staff use all 3 of them spend everything into T1 and you should be close.
You can use the food from trading to help you and drag out the staves for more impact later on.

Once that's done, Start a wagon run. Your points will be
+3 Forest Monsters(2E) + 1 to Hapiness Effect (2E) + 1 Reward (1E)
Gift of the Forest (1D)
Raid (1N) ( You need a werehouse run if your too lazy to click can prob get 200-300 on run for T1 hapiness. )

So Buildings now, You go :
T1 : Wagon
T2 : Workshop ( Horses Here )
T3 : Stable
T4 : Master's house
T5 : Town Hall
T6 : Shooting Range
T7 : Castle
T8 : City Walls
T9 : Gold Mine
T10 : Throne Room ( + Discontent Decree )
T11 : Fountain
T12 : Altar of Fire
T13 : 1B Food / Sheep ( if your overall food is below 1b grab the 1b if not the sheep )

Don't kill the enemies too fast make sure to level you wagon to at least 8 before killing too many.
After that just go ham rush 100k+ on Masters ( so you can switch out Gift of the Forest (1D) and Raid (1N) ) ( Take Power of the Staff (1D) and They're Made Out of Meat(1N) )
Do a quick run to get like 5k Perserverance on Swordsman.
Note : If your at getting nomad 2-3 maybe even 4 you can just go for final run here, with 10k perserverance I can do Nomad 3 within roughly 10 mins from the start of the run, You'd have to wait for 4 and I'd recommend doing long for 5 +
If you struggle to reach Miners even with elves then just do Commanders their quite a lot worst cuz you can't put horses into them and you can't put horses into the mine either for the huge bonus.
From there you can do either a long run and get 100k+ on miners or 2 faster runs to do 100k on elves then 100k on miners.

Once you have 100k wanderers 100k masters and 100k miners ( optinal 100k elves )
You most likely will need perseverance ( maybe you don't ) you just do another run put all horses into the Gold Mine. If you struggle with the run put some into workshop. ( yes not workshop but gold mine because since miners are your main gold source each building is x20 while a workshop is x10 granting higher gold. ) Don't forget to get Altar of Calmness instead of Altar of Fire. You will also get Monster Reward Decree instead of discontent you'il see a significant food income bonus. You only need like 10k+ to be able to assimilate early on ( even then prob overkill )

Just make sure to abuse the lower enemies first before going up to get the Monster Rewards up before killing higher enemies since [4]+ have a good base bonus. I can acctually get to 1T food with [10] monsters

There's not much to the final run except you take the BP mine instead of the gold one you only need to invest 4-8 horses into it since it's still same gold bonus and you get x2 battle power which is what matters but you still need the extra gold from Workshop to speed up the run. On the final run you don't really need gold so you can freely put all of your Elf points to get
+ 10 monsters in forest (6E)

Now you should be able to easilly reach Sx BP which is enough to get the [10] down and you can do elf or nomad easy, I don't recommend it for D4+ or W3+ takes too long to build up just farm more Nomad points and do a butcher build to push food to 10+Qi in like half an hour instead of getting 10T or so per run, easy e6 BP bonus from having e6 more soldiers and butcher run allows you to get 10T Hapiness runs easilly which means you can get like 200k+ perseverance. If you do unlock cyclops eventually, do switch out stables for Cyclops Camp it's crazy good for this "strategy" also put all your horses into it ( If you have Cavarans (4N) ) It gets you from 1T → 1Qa and to 10Qi if you buy Forest Camp (5C).

This build is able to push out about 15E/3D/12N/2W/1C in about 3 hours per assimilations after that you will start slowing down again, If you use cyclops camp you can easilly get around 25E/4D/22N/3W/2C ( If you have 5 cyclops can most likely be pushed much further but this build is far from able to reach enough BP for Cyclops 5, you will need a purely food based build )