How to manage My army vs My upkeep

I prefer bowmen because if you use my 3 to 1 prawn ratio mentioned in my strategy how i got 60k rep in 10 days
you will not have any losses. What i mean by that is you wont lose any of your men.

Your bowmen should be able to take all prawn units before they even reach you.

Having no losses is a huge advantage as it allows you to carry home more food and gold
from the monsters you killed.

Bringing home more food and gold is critical so you can keep building more bowmen units and
attack higher numbered grroups of prawns.

basically the more bowmen = the more prawn you can kill = the more rep you get and the more food and gold you carry = more bowmen and repeat.

also the more bowmen = more food brought home = no need to worry about food upkeep !

Currently i have 16000 bowmen leaving me with negative 31,000 food per hour but since i bring home about 70,000 of each food and gold i
have no need to worry about running out of resources!

Edit: if im bringing home 70,000 every hour and only losing thirty technically im gaining 39,000 every hour since you can raid atleast once per hour without ever getting 0 health

Ah very helpful thanks