Hmm, this one looks interesting. I quite liked Fallen Enchantress (with it's expansion, specifically). The combat in it actually seemed fine to me.... IF the enemy was actually strong enough to be a real threat. If that was not the case, it got a bit dull. With a non symmetrical design to the game as a whole, tougher fights theoretically could come much more often than they did in that game.
So, hm, I might pick this up myself for the heck of it, not sure.
As for the AI War thing, if you look at the Steam forums, one of the first things you see is a topic asking if it's similar to AI War, heh. I think you guys definitely had quite the influence here overall, congrats on that.