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1. View messages, battles. Resolve anything important related to those messages. I get a lot of the large strokes out of the way here.
2. Press F8. Assign items forged last turn, figure out what I need to forge this turn.
3. Press N. A lot. This is the main army movement/combat phase. Eventually I'm left with just a bunch of hiding scouts, so then...
4. Recruit from all my castles. Any units I wanted to recruit out of castles was handled in step 3, but I recruited them last turn so they were set to defend.
5. Press F5. Set research. I always do this last because otherwise I am 2 research points short or several hundred over like previously pointed out.

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The biggest problem I have is pressing F8, assigning items, and then forgetting where my hammers are or what I need to forge this turn. Still haven't figured out a good way to do that. But I catch 99% of everything else.