Just for you!!!
My first world was world one, I played for a whole 2 months and never got a noble....
second world, world 2, I got a bit better, i mad it to like 3 villages (all of which i had nobled barbs) with a total troop count of 3k between the three!!!!
Third world, world 3, this one was fun, I actually did pretty well because i started late on the rim with a bunch of others newer then me. I made it to about 10k in points, then got into a war and ended up being a farm to the teachu tribe, so i stopped playing that world...
More recent world newbness!!!!!
World 26: I played this world for my friends rather then for myself. So, when my friends left, I joined a tribe based on my new friends (rather then going to pills which had invited me). Needless to say it sucked, It ended up in a war with an ok tribe. Well long story short, the first tribe I joined ended up in a war with the ok tribe and the leadership just left. Then, I made the mistake of following them to the next tribe which was even worse. Needless to say, the ok tribe followed with war, and the second tribe fell (there have been many rumors i was a leader, I was never a leader in world 26). All in all, my decisions where really noobish, but my playing wasn't, I lasted for a whole 2-3 months against the tribe (who claimed that they where not attacking me, but i had 1 million in ODD to prove otherwise) before i got tired and quit for worlds 33/34.
World 30: Joined a newb tribe that got into a war, that was 3-4 months ago when the world started.... I was once again thought to be a leader, because of my past experience, so when the war broke out i was attacked by about 30 players and rimmed by gicusan (who was in my 10X10). I made some really poor decisions....
The turn around:
World 33: Rather then joining a tribe I had friends in, I started, then waited a few weeks, watched tribes and players i knew of. Then joined a tribe and just went with my friends from there. Ended up attacked by reaperised, and got some intel that AI had planned to make me his first noble target. I got another player to start attacking and catting AI, and then sent 1/2 of my axe at him with some LC and I think some siege. Managed nothing more then stunting both players, and probably tribes growth. (To AI: That attack wasn't personal, it was cause of the intel, sorry, just sending a message not to mess with me.)