Yeah right? As one of the programmers (and being super bad at strategy games myself) it also took me a while to figure out the best strategy to beat the game. It was funny seeing the designers get 200+ points when I couldn't even reach 80 xD
I think there may also be a bug on the multipliers: the ones that say they only work for small numbers nonetheless seem to work on anything.
Managed to win without taking advantage of that, but still.
Oh! It may be the case yeah, thanks for the feedback