Make sure you keep making lots of settlers throughout the game so that you have lots of resources and remember to keep building houses. If you want to build troops faster, you can always build another barracks so you can build troops twice as fast.
Noob: HAHAHAA! FEEL THE WRATH OF MY MUD-MAN ARMY!
Good Player: Time to launch the Ice Block.
(Mud-Man Army is completely destroyed by giant Ice Block)
Noob:.......
(Noob quits game)
Good Player: