Great post. You bring up many interesting strategy points, which I think are underappreciated in this game.
While the game is automated, the combination of rules, element avaiability and mana creates so many different scenarios that you rarely play the same match twice. For this reason, having a good understanding of the overarching strategy elements, like you have discussed here, is very valuable.
I look forward to your next posts in this series! Also, you should enter this in the social media challenge, if you care about the hive payouts. I think the splinterlands team appreciates efforts to bring in new players such as you are doing here. There was a new one posted today: https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/splinterlands-weekly-curation-challange-january-19-2022 .