Occupying Territory

We can only start building and occupying territory starting right away from alliance center 1.Later we can also start from alliance 2 and so on .

Now suppose the green tile is the nearest available tile from your alliance center

And now you want to occupy the next empty plot . You can directly go and capture it .

And now there is another empty plot that you want to occupy . A shown in image below.

You have to cover each and every tile that comes in the way to reach that specific tile you want.

After completing the track as shown above , we reach the required tile .

The yellow tile are the extra tiles that we have occupy in order to reach the next plot.

You can always abandon the extra tiles that were required . Empty plots provides the lowest resource  too. Go for abandoned farm for more resources.

Now your new target is acquired and you have a lot of distance to cover.

You cannot occupy the tiles around it, currently marked in red color.

You have to again make the shortest possible way in order to reach your destination .
The green path is the shortest distance (number of tiles covered) in order to reach.

And finally the destination / required tiles are reached and now you are ready for action.

At last --> Do not forget to abandon the yellow tiles and occupy new tiles