After getting some feedback and trying to fix the problems, the battle system will once again be split into 2 parts, one for up to 70 vs 70 unit warfare and one with 6 vs 6 tactical combat.
The main reason being that the auto combat with 6 vs 6 up to 18 vs 18 units couldn't keep up with the complexity of the skill system and I don't want to dumb it down.
So we are kind of back to the good old days with regular battles and conquest/warfare. We have come full circle.
The latter will be auto attack based, the former semi turn based. More on that at a later time.

As for today:

After the editor freezing on me a couple dozen times, I did finish a test map with a player character and multiple height levels.
(I am hopeful that many of the current problems with the Tilemaps will be fixed by version 4.1, right now it helped to stay away from renaming or reordering existing layers to prevent freezes/crashes.)

As you can, or maybe can't see, there are 2 movement, an idle, and a jump state for the player. There is grid based movement and jumps for regular travel and a grid free movement for encounter areas. The transition is smooth.

And thats pretty much it for the last month. Currently a bit more busy irl, I hope to make bigger, more frequent updates again starting at the end of july.