Raiding

When you first start raiding u won't be having very good troops like level 1 barbarians and archers and stuff like that so you should get a lab as soon as you can and start upgrading troops to level 2 then you should also think about base defense and and walls and collectors and storages to keep going . You should also think about upgrading your barracks every once in a while to unlock more advanced troops. When u have a lab and some decent troops u should now start to enter a league to get some loot bonus to help you out , at first it's quite low but higher up it becomes enough to fund an entire army.