Will stop here. At this point, I was thinking, "This is an autobattler, I should be able to do this while I do analysis work." The first ranked loss (not shown) triggered a rage that had me analyzing my line up and choices. Snagged the W making sure I had mostly magic ranged attack. Everything is about getting non melee in that first position and that strat worked.
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