Without a big income it is tough to build powerful stats, men = income = power.
Firstly, get all the Unit Production upgrades you can afford. They pay for themselves (men=income) surprisingly quickly.
After UP there is clicking! (I have gathered all the recruiter links at the bottom of this post.)
Building up (and maintaining) a couple of thousand credits on clickwhore is by far the fastest way to grow your army. In order to get this much credit you have to 'multiclick', which means using proxies to get a new click session! (although technically proxy-clicking could be illegal it is rampant and quitely allowed by admins, as each click is a genuine click from a unique ip it works for everyone except maybe advertisers paying by the unique impression...)
Transparent proxies are enough, just set your proxy in IE (all clickers use IE it seems) as you would if you were setting it for surfing. You will get a full session of clicks for each proxy you use.
Remember to use your KoC account using only your genuine IP though, as that is the one thing that they might get upset about.
(For the non-geek inclined you will need to find a proxy-list, then when you are trying a proxy you will need to do an IP test to make sure that your IP has been changed.
www.stayinvisible.com is a good place to find out stuff.)
By doing 1000 credits a day (2 full sessions) on clickwhore you would get 1000 back, if trained down they add 1,024,000 to spy/sentry, and 15,000 a turn extra to your income
Recruiter Links
[u]Phoenix Wildfire (clicKwhORe)</u>
www.phoenixrising.ws/wildfire
[EDIT: PR have a new server!]
http://72.21.44.210/wildfire/
Wildfire is by far the best recruiter, even if those tight fuckers tax you 4% of your clicks.
name of software: clicKwhORe(2o)
speed of clicks: fast, up to 100+(!!!) cpm
available links per session: ~3000
clickback rate: right now: ~3-4000/day if you keep your credit over 4k or so - it will drop down as the age goes on.
## the following are age4 links and they might not work in age5...
[u]Drunken Terroist (Dynamite)</u>
www.drunknterrorist.net
DT is an independent recruiter, it is slowly geting more users (= more clickback).
name of software: Dynamite
speed of clicks: okay, 20 - 30 cpm
available links per session: ~150
clickback rate: ~150/day in normal use, ~250/day if you are >300 in credit.
extras: can transfer credits to other users on the db.
[u]Clan Recruiter (ClickDemon)</u>
www.clanrecruiter.com
Clan Recruiter is the clicker for StrikerClan, apparently it bumps ppl in your own chain to the top of your list - in effect as most users are SC it works best for them...
name of software: ClickDemon
speed of clicks: okay, 20 - 30 cpm
available links per session: ~230
clickback rate: ~230/day in normal use, seems to max out at this return for me whatever my credit.
[u]Rouge Guild (koclicker)</u>
www.rogue-guild.comd
Another independent clicker, when its working is pretty good but seems to be unreliable.
name of software: koclicker
speed of clicks: ~ 30 cpm
available links per session: ~1-200
clickback rate: ~1-200/day in normal use, havent tried more credit.
notes: unreliable, ie. the site seems to be down a lot and then the clicker wont connect to the db.