Fantasy Town Regional Manager

I can't get past winter despite pretty much all my relationships being "strong green". I don't understand why the quests don't decrease the enemies’ overall threat level seeing how I'm supposedly clearing areas of enemies. There's an error in the logic there, I think, if you amend it would make the game challenge less insurmountable. Right now, I think I am doing everything right, trying to use the new, more powerful cards whenever I can, I've played both strategies of spending lots of money on quests, or very little money on quests, (whenever I have the manpower and can spare a few adventurers, which is seldom). The maths behind the game make it impossible to keep up with the enemy, too much is hingent upon whether there are defence boosts in the newspaper, upon luck. New defense building technology is not sufficiently boosted. Even if I put down several buildings that would attract the factions, the result is that at the end of the turn- if I only end up attracting a very few (probably, via a covert dice roll?), the game doesn't appear to make up for my loss in the coming turns. It would be better if one building would guarantee to attract at least X adventurers, spread out over the next coming turns or so, rather than having a % chance of immediately attracting some, which has a high chance of failing. If you don't let the gamer in a little bit more on what we are doing when we are placing the buildings, we can't actually strategise. Outside of all this it's a lovely game idea, with a good base and lots of humour. I love digital strategy cardgames and want to see more of them. You can look at Spellcaster University for inspiration regarding how to balance the game and the hand you're dealt. I really do want to see this game succeed.