Whats the point of having limited time to buy soldiers and move them into position? That's the only part of this game I dislike, and I dislike it a lot!!
I hate exploding barrels. Almost all my deaths so far have been to exploding barrels. At no point did exploding barrels increase my enjoyment of the game. Many times did exploding barrels reduce my enjoyment of the game. I have an idea. Let's remove exploding barrels.
Suggestions: Press 'O' to autoexplore, Press 'R' to rest until abilities on cooldowns are available, Press skill key a second time to use it (ex: press '1' '1' as wizard to shoot fireball).
Some time ago it was possible to hire units at any time. And that wasn't fun. Hard to balance, hard to control all those units.