Thanks for your comments and compliments. To address your points: Formations: These will be getting a big overhaul in the future. Right now, they're just cosmetic. Number of civs: I don't think it will be so hard to balance them. Will just take a lot of playtesting. And of course, we'll listen to the experiences of the fanbase and take their balance suggestions into account. A lot of the civs are very similar, with just a few unique things about them. Battle Micro: Right now I think micro is a big help to the player because effectiveness of a unit comes almost exclusively from its attack bonuses (what it counters and what its countered by). Make sure to check out the tooltips to see what each type of unit is best at.