Thank you very much for the comprehensive explanation Chuck, it greatly helps and I just won my second geame

Ah, that clears out my confusions, thank you

Thanks for the answers guys, I appreciate them :)
But I think my thick skull still don't really get the spoils part

Now, this is the display of the spoils:
My Spoils ([bracketed] if owned): g:Blackcat Mews g:Frogstomp b:Wicked The Witch g:Allfellows Church

So from my understanding so far, if I ...

Could someone help me to clear out some of my confusions regarding spoils? I have done a few games (managed to win 1), but I still don't understand about the spoils (except the one from controlling all of the regions from a single group).

As the image below shows, I have no idea about the lines ...

I would like to join too.