New strategy I just found with the Japanese.

They have shrines that you build around the map for hunt spots. Well you cant always protect those. Instead, build them like normal. Sometimes youll get the full 4 animals out of each shrine, sometimes you dont.

Have an ally build sheep or cows, send those over to the shrines to finish off the limit. If you feel like you dont want to risk all of those animals or shrines, build the shrines in your base, send your ally the cost of the animals, and move them around as needed. If you build 2x3 shrines and click one of the middle ones, the sheep or cows will go to it then go to the next available one. This helped me generate a ton of coin throughout the game. I could have easily paid the food off. I ended up sending my ally the food cost plus an extra 8000 gold I had sitting around.