I think this game is super fun, but it needs a lot of improvements.
The amount of troops is fine, but I would not complain if we could make more and have bigger battles.
The maps are huge for the running speed and the time limit. You spend way too much time running from one objective to another which takes away from battling. Especially if you are trying to get gold in the mission.
The AI seems to have a preference to attacking you. Normally, I would not care, but with such little time and huge maps, this ends up making it worse the having to run around. You lose flags so quickly that you end up going in circles just recapturing. The AI is also stronger than you so you have to actively avoid fighting if you want to get income and be able to capture faster. Most of the time when I try to go for gold I simply can't because I run out of time because I spend so much time running around. Emphasis on running and not fighting. I have missed the gold while capturing the last flag. I know the AI has preference for you because I will be on opposite sides of the map of an AI with their last flag and it will cross the entire map, lose its troops, and lose its flag to try to attack me. To deal with this issue you end up running between AI to make them fight each other to give you some breathing time to go capture their flags.