I wanted to get more into this, but I had to read several paragraphs of text explaining the controls, and I gave up a few paragraphs in. That's unfortunate because it seems like there could be a fair amount of strategic depth to this game. I just never got to it due to the steep learning curve.
Maybe you could move more of that learning into the game itself through an interactive tutorial so we can learn by playing instead of reading a bunch of text.