If you want to get a sense of the genre, Guardians of Middle Earth is actually a very good, streamlined intro, but a few hours being delightfully bewildered by DOTA 2 might give a good sense of whether the form is the right one for you.
Let me begin by stating I have never read any of your other work and am solely going by your statements above, as well as your intro and website on the right of this article.