To take over another village is a process called 'ennobling' or nobling, in short. This is done by successfully attacking another village with a noble until the loyalty of the other village decrease to 0 or below. You can check the current loyalty of the other village by checking your attack reports in your reports link.
You will need a smithy. to get a smithy, then you have to get you village headquarters to level 5.
You need a level 3 Village HQ and a level 2 Warehouse. Welcome.
if you are going to noble a barbarian village, then all you have to do is send the nobleman with some of axemen just to make sure that your nobleman doesn't die.
Research axemen in Smithy. Recruit in Barracks.
either make a new account or just live with it :P
you just go to there website and start typing in your user name and stuff
you get swordsmen by getting a smithy, but to get a smithy, you first have to get barracks so you can make troops, and then level up your village headquarters to 5. by the time, you do, then you would have spearfighters and swordsmen. Have fun killing people with them!
it gives you more population so you can make more troops and upgrade more buldings
To recruit spear fighters, you must have barracks. You must research other units in the smithy.
There are many different stratagys to tribal wars. It depends on your situation. Have you joined late? Are you in the core? What players are near you? How many barbs are near you? There are a million factors to take into account when thinking of the best stratagy. There are many guides on this. maybe find a good one. or ask the good people at the tribal wars questions fourm (http://forum.tribalwars.net/forumdisplay.php?f=4) Or better yet join a good helpful tribe! Activity is very immportant on tribal wars. Make sure your account is run 25/7 (becase 24/7 is too little). Get reliable and trustable co players. Also the last seggestion of 24k swords. unless you have a 0 pop village (immposible!) then it will not work. it is also not a good idea anyway.
Make a recruiter invite the members from the tribe merging. At the end make the last person disband the tribe then, invite them too.
It is when a player posts in the noble planner or forum which village they are going to noble. Now this is an inbuilt feature in all tribes but has no in game effect but when another person who can see the noble planner goes to attack a village it will say something along the lines of 'Some one in your tribe has a claim on this village'. Most tribes will include a threat such as loss of rights or dismissal. They do this usually by saying I claim (Village in bb codes). Most tribes will have a limit as to how many claims you can make.