The base game, I absolutely adore. The freedom of placing your units wherever gives rise to a lot of strategies That feel free form. I’m currently ranked around 2400 which I assume is decently high since every enemy I find has units sometimes leveled up twice the level of mine. I was able to get pretty high decently fast despite this, but I feel like I’m at a point where it’s just ridiculous. I feel as thought there isn’t as many ways for a Free to play like me to really compete at this point, unless you want to watch 3 ads every 12 or so hours. And this doesn’t event guarantee making your armies stronger. The variety of units is amazing but the fact you have to level them up so high to even be viable really just discourages or makes it impossible to try some strategies. The fact that there are so many units to choose from also becomes a bit of a hassle at higher ranks since the pool of units is higher, it means you’ll have less chances getting the units you want. TL;DR: the base game is amazing until a certain point. Now I feel like I can’t progress despite having better overall strategies.