When you start the game the game in a hard level, the enemy might attack pretty quickly
and destroy your village before you have a chance to build your resources. Just enter 
all the food,wood,stone and gold cheats and advance to the imperial age. Then send a 
couple of your villagers (and units to guard the villagers) to a blank corner of the 
map and build a wall around one of the villagers. If your village gets destroyed just 
destroy the stone wall and get the villager in there to build a new and secret base. 
This will confuse your enemys in to tyhinking you are destroyed.