Did you read the description of Skirmish? I think over complicated is a bit downplaying it - why can they make its SIMPLE like Assaults and Meeble Burrows. I have to agree with Ilax though, this is kind of Campaign V2.0, and a very bad one at that - the reasons being they do have at least 3 experiences under their belts when it comes to "whackaton fest - everyone welcome" : Besieged, Campaign and Walk of Echoes. The fact that there are so many missing components (like auto reraise) and the rest of the mechanics are just rather stupid (5 seconds warning lol) - this just points to a beta SoA, and we are paying $30-40 for it.

At the end - it's like chicken and egg dilemma. SE wants all players to participate - but the obvious events are not fully well explained, and the rather popular activities are far from fun and not very intuitive other than whack da roots for more logs and misc crap. So most players are abandoning the said events in droves, and no progress made - and it is not fun for everyone at the end. Unless they are basically buying time - stretch it as long as they can possibly can and milk us dry one more time lol.

I am taking Ilax's advice - taking a few months to maybe a year (gasp - not sure if this is possible hah hah hah) break from this game. It is not going anywhere - and looking at SE's history, things do get much better after 3-5 big updates. You either play their game or you can decide for yourself, nope not gonna fall for the same BS again every expansion lol.