This challenge requires too much supervision for an idle game. I dont mind the stand-alone mission, but as part of the weekly challenge, I want something that I dont have to baby sit. Ive reset receiving 20-30x FEWER coins than normal simply because Im not going to nurse the crusaders through the special abilities and properties that are a part of this mission.

I agree that it is much more annoying than almost all the other challenges.

Two things could make it more palatable:

1) Decrease the frequency of changing by only changing every 100 areas.
2) Reduce the number of different formations to match the number of saved formations, so currently 3.

with either or both of these changes, the annoyance factor would go down dramatically.

I just put in a decent formation and i walked out with 111 challenge tokens and 3mil idols the rotating formation wasnt that much of a issue.