If you don't know the basics of the game, then you don't need to see this.

1. Build as many woodchucks as possible at the start
2. Build as many stone mines and iron mines.
3. Also the best option to get food is building a lot of bakeries, but you need a few mills and wheat farms for it.
4. Build your own archers, don't recruit Arabian ones if it's possible, there is a big price difference of 12/75 ( 1arabian is for the same price as 6 normal archers)
5.At the start its also very useful to build 1-2 towers, to defend your citizens from enemies possible push.¨
6. If you know you will need a lot of soldiers do this trick: 1. Build lot of water pots (20+) then destroy them and these guys will be back citizens (24 + 3 for every water pot)
That means you can recruit like 100+ soldiers just in few seconds.
7. Bowmen are better against armoured units
8. Build pubs and hop farms, it makes your popularity very high.
9. Go win!

I believe this guide helped you, I started playing SC after many years and finally bought it on steam. Please every like and +rep will make me very happy :).