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Campaign mode could be a succession of islands or regions, each one would be the current game, ending with the enemy defeat. After you win, you go to an other island and grow your army from the start again, caused you create a new outpost.

Not all the troops, troop evolutions and technologies would be available upfront, they would be unlocked progressively after your victories on each island or region. This could serve as an in-game tutorial with progressive difficulty and rewards for players, as they unlock new contents leading to new strategies.

You could even maybe make some choices, like do you good to the desert biome or the jungle biome for your next destination? Each one having different focus for the enemies strategies or advantages, and unlock different troops and technologies.

That also would be an opportunity to make different battle backgrounds based on the biome and to see a map you conquest, one after an other island or region.

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Concerning the UI, my use case is that I would benefit for assessing the current board state at a glance.

For instance, knowing clearly with strong visual cues:

• the age of each troop (to asset overall advancement and strength)
• if they are an evolved version or not (which the indication is very subtle currently)
• their type (to know which ones are affected by a technology or power)
• the overall damage type (currently their is multiple numbers in squares of the same colour, like attack, range and armour are all the same, which was hard to grasp during my first plays and my eyes don't distinguish clearly the difference between the piercing colour and the health colour)

Some QoL improvements, I think could help:

• highlighting all the troops benefiting from a technology when hovering on its icons and reading the tooltip
• in the troops tooltip, decomposing base number from improvements by technologies or powers (like Swordsman: Attack melee 5 (3+2))
• having the possibility to see our current army while choosing a troop evolution or a technology
• knowing how much gold we will earn next round if we survive

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On a side note, there's seems to be a bug when a Scythed Chariot inflict is bonus 1 damage to a Maori Warrior, making the Scythed Chariot losing 1 piercing attack, even if Maori Warrior power should only affect melee troop.

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Finally, if you want to discuss more about the UI of the cards, I could develop my thoughts, which are coming from my experience in the boardgaming and cardgaming space.