Start with Paladin, then 2 Paladins, then respec to Warrior+Ranger. That's getting me through the first 20 floors so far. It will still be a grind though. Eventually, you should want a lead Warrior overkilling, while Paladins boost Morale(see Rockydennis above)
A millisecond delayer after a click on TBS would be nice. I don't know if it's just my mouse, but more than once, I've been caught doing a double click(resulting in a miss), even though I only moved my finger once to click.
Would be nice if I could figure out what does or does not trigger palisades to be built. They seem to occur almost at random, or only on specific tiles next to existing ones.
If you didn't start this on Monday, good luck trying to get it for Wednesday's botd without paying. Stupidly long time requirement. Still only on level 6 out of 8 needed.
Sardines are pretty much useless now that Flash is dead, so you can't even unlock Level 100(or Australia, Speed up/Down, etc.) from the Black Market anymore.
Seems to be a bug where after achieving rift 104, crashing into the giant cake wall leads to an endless black plain, and it's a crapshoot whether the game hangs or you get sent backwards.
A couple of alternate endings would have been nice. Eg, after eating brocolli all the time, Joe rejects the cake. Or eating nothing but protein, he turns into a hulk. Etc. 5/5 anyway.
Fastest way to grind is just repeat the first 3 levels a few times, trying to Brilliant each one. Once you have freezing+fear on your crypts, it gets easier to frighten off most enemies and save your mana for the meteor on dodgers/last hero in order to get Brilliant.
All in all, 4/5. For anyone looking for an "easy" way to get the harder badge, grind towards bottom right until you unlock Phantic(Dark Elf General). Evade+Mortar will help you defeat the jobbers everyone is helpfully putting into the arena. If you can, bring along units with Burning, Extra Attack, and you should be able to beat most opponents with a Level 7 general Phantic.
Instructions unclear, like where to get more gold(can you even grind for more?), and the AI is most definitely cheating, winning the coin flip 7/10 times.