I don't really get it either. I mean, I get the basic structure (which reminds me a lot of Age of Empires, go in and destroy their defenses and then their base kinda thing), but I was never good at AoE. XD

My boyfriend has been playing it a lot (he really wants mini Twintania), but he doesn't have many monster minions and he says not having the options make it really hard, even in the early games.