Play Here: Strategy Defense 3

There have been quite a few defense games lately where you sit back and pump out troops to swarm your opponents base. I don’t know if this has all been inspired by Bowmaster, WC3 tower wars or something else entirely. I see a lot of promise in this genre but most of these games, as is, completely lack strategy.

What I don’t like about current swarm defense games:

1. Excessive mouse mashing. I don’t see any reason a game should require more than 1 click per 2 seconds. I would really prefer if I could toggle creature swarms on and off in order to deal with other strategic elements.
2. Auto upgrading… Choosing your upgrade path has long been one of the funnest phases of any game. Why put this on autopilot while while forcing you to manually build each troop?
3. Why not add an RPG element? It would be nice if you could build heroes.
4. Enemy bases always seem to have unlimited resources.
5. Each side only has 1 base and 1 path connecting the bases. Casual Collective has a game called Desktop Armada with multiple paths. It adds a new whole new dimension to the game.