The Iron Oath

This is still in development so it is difficult to know what is a work in progress and what is simply poor design... As it stands, 20 rounds is not enough to clear even the tutorial of a dozen squares, let alone something like the second mission which had around thirty. Now I don't like timers to begin with, but a timer which is not even sufficient to encompass the objective forcing you to accrue penalties regardless of how well you perform is a non starter. Each individual party member consuming a potion/spell out of combat hits the counter? Really? When I can use them during combat and lose nothing? What half baked horseshit is this? In a game like this, on maps these, you want to encourage people to explore and immerse themselves in the game not rush through it and miss things. If they want more of a challenge make timers optional and see who elects to use them. Few I bet I prefer not to camp or rely upon consumables but this is the sort of game where you really don't have a choice. Fine. Camping, however, doesn't seem to return any health even when burning incense for a bonus and worse it did not give me any of my abilities back...Why do it then? Its another game game where you can recruit a constraining number of people but never field enough of them to have any sort of advantage. OK, I get it, balancing a game is hard, and if your focus is squad based tactical skirmishes you don't want people bringing a company to overwhelm your challenges. That is fine, but give the other people players recruit things to do. Make it the players choice to determine how many people they can field within their camp and give them competing desires. If they have 12 people, make then choose to split people between, say, scouting the vicinity for reinforcements/patrols/watchmen/ambushes, rearguard over the horses/wagons/valuables/provisions, prepping a field hospital to receive wounded from the expedition. If they want to send in everyone, fine, let there will be consequences Ugh