I think a little bit more than a thousand? 

Samurai guy is the easiest Legendary commander to max his skill (by paying more).
Also, don't ever upgrade Legendary commander to 2 Stars before maxing their first skill.

Lucky for you, he's also the easiest to fix if you upgrade him wrongly. But of course, by paying more to buy the VIP chest. 

If you're a very active player, go join a big alliance with P2W players. Will get a lot of VIP points from the alliance chest.

chii think anyone who have spare time ought to make a 2nd account to support the main.
later when u reach CH 22, all the buildings need 10m food, 20m wood like that.
CH 25, 50m food, 50m wood. something like that

your 2nd account should be france, for joan of arc, as she is a gathering commander.
or japan for the +5% gathering speed buff. either these 2 will do.

in your farm account, you should only focus on the gathering commanders. no need any other commanders.

let's say it this way. if your moneymoto is going to have more purchases, then u can use him as a commander, because he only can be upgraded via money.

attacking players and barbarians are different.
recommended barbarian commanders are lohar, belisaurus, boudica. highly recommend boudica for her mixed army capabilities
for players, which u will engage in open fields, will be scipio, boudica, and specialize cavalry later, pelagius + belisaurus.
lancelot is just for beginning few weeks, after that using him will be suicidal for pvp.

for gaythering, u need 5 commanders. constance, joan, sarka, gaius marius, centurion AND cleopatra (optional because hard to skill up)
focus on constance first, since her max skill unlocks +10% free resources for any amount gathered by her.

Need to correct something here. Lohar is not that good for Barbarian Fort but good for Barbarians. Especially good for leveling up other Commanders because of his bonus XP skill. If you have a Richard with maxed 1st skill, this pair is gonna last very long at fighting barbarians continuously without returning to the city.

Anyway, any Epic/Legendary Peacekeeper hero is better for Barbarian Fort compare to commander like Scipio. I    everytime I see my member use a Scipio as primary commander for rallying Barb Fort.

There's no XP gained from rallying Fort, just XP tomes. I think he just used the only maxed commander he has. He can win the battle but its going to have more Severely Wounded troop compared when you use Peacekeeper commander who has bonus damage to Barb and active skill which helps to end the battle much quicker. Btw, I mean he's the rally starter.

About Minamoto, spending RM5/month is going to be nearly impossible to max him out. It cost like USD220 to buy all the VIP chests that contains his Sculpture. Welcome to the Rise of Visa MasterCard. 

You can use him if you're joining somebody else's rally. It lets you bring more troop if you have his Troop Capacity skill upgraded.

I suggest that you ignore Minamoto if you don't plan to max his skills and focus on Epic commanders instead. If you really want Legendary commanders, focus on those obtainable from Tavern and their skill upgradable with Gold Sculpture.

For commander pairing, go for Archer + Archer, Infantry + Infantry or Cavalry + Cavalry pairs for their specialization bonus. You can search youtube for RoK videos on these (Legend Rhony, Dragothien etc....).

Ultimately, you need to bring Gathering commander like Joan of Arc, Gaius, Constance, Sarka, Centurion to Lv 37 to unlock the final talent on the Gathering tree.

Focus on maxing the level of one PvP commander first (the Primary Commander) first. You can pair Lohar and that commander to fight barbarians whenever you have Action Points. Having a high level Lohar is good for PvE content too.

to be specific, Lohar is good for killing barbarians, NOT barb forts. Moneymoto when max skilled is good at everything and exceptionally good when rallying barb forts.
Lohar is meant to be used as a commander to assist the 2nd commander to level up.
so u will see a lot of people attacking with Lohar with various other commanders.
Never take Lohar for pvp, its bad and will make your troops freekill.

from your list, concentrate on your scipio, joan, sun tzu. get these 3 to higher levels.

scipio + joan = open field combat
sun tzu =  city garrison

chii deduced that Boudica is the best waifu to rally barb forts at the epic tier. Boudica + Belisaurus = Ok for killing forts
no need level up blue commanders except the gathering ones. Lancelot maybe, if u want him for pvp in the 1st / 2nd week
btw, never spend gems on anything for now. all stockpile up

basically herman is average, his first skill just is not effective for pvp or pve. it is only used for the capture of certain barbarian structures.

osman is ok to lead main commander and pair up with hermann, since u only got these 2 for now.

focus on belisaurus + pelagius = cavalry
kusonoki = archers
sun tzu + eulji = infantry
boudica + scipio = mixed army

these are actually what chii use.
normally u will not be engaging in open combat alot. so, try to get your barbarian commander to higher levels first, so you can do pve content more.
btw, make sure u max joan first skillwise. her expertise brings a lot of advantage to your battles in pve and pvp.
any battle with joan inside increases your army strength by alot.

your goal is always to use scipio to tank and let joan come in from the side to support as the 2nd / 3rd army to buff others.

not to kill your excitement, but u should really stop with moneymoto......better invest to caocao, as least u can skill him up normally.
moneymoto.....only can buy packs to unlock his skills. cannot even use universal sculptures to skill him up.

kusonoki is an epic commander, he lead archers.

good luck bro. all the best. my kingdom....ughhh. 5 T5 players went away.

Just started playing yesterday.

Anyone can guild can intro which is active ?
I'm still very new and lots to learn, but I'm an active player tho.

ign: mingie93

I joined a random alliance, but so far there is no territory for the alliance yet.

Don't plan to help to upgrade the alliance research cause I don't think the alliance will last long.. lol

So planning to join a more matured alliance as I would like to stick around for some time.