Hey, I played after Update#1.
The grace period is really nice and lets you get set up to not lose instantly. Perhaps the player could start with a set amount of wood and then have less grace period. It would help remove having to do the initial tree clear before building every game.
I know this is probably frustrating to hear but I found that it's now way too easy. If you survive the beginning it becomes incredibly easy. I'm at the point where I have gone AFK and left the game running for about 40 minutes and I'm still alive (currently at 45k gold :D), going to keep it running and see where I get to, if I can even die at this point. It seems that enemy scaling might not be working properly or needs to be tweaked to be a bit stronger as the game goes on.
There are some performance issues. Once I spammed down a few knights and had a decent amount of archers on the board, the game slowed down significantly, making it very hard to navigate and place objects. Also once the game was lagging, I could somehow place things on top of each other (like having a wall, dummy and archer all on the same tile).
Some tips for those struggling:
-The main thing making me lose was not blocking the first few bombers with a wall further away from my king.
If they got close it would take out all my first archers and then all was lost.
-BLOCK THE BOMBERS, seriously always keep a little wood to place a wall down and block these guys from ruining everything, once you're set-up its not as important, but in the early game its 100% necessary.
-Let your king take a few hits early if you have to. Don't block the path to the king with your units. Instead let the king take a few hits while you finish getting a good defense up. If you make the units protect the king they'll keep dying and you'll never get enough units out to survive.
Overall I really enjoyed this game and I'm looking forward to see where you take it!
Thanks for sharing this with us :)