Hired Swords

Draft mercenaries, hunt for synergies. Good bones. The clever bit is fighting other people's saved teams instead of live opponents, because that quietly kills the waiting problem. What youre here for is clocking that two units you took as filler are talking to each other.

Auto-battlers are cheap to copy and murder to balance. This one wears its influence openly, and fine, that's an honest lineage. My reservation is the one I bring to all of them: is the unit pool deep enough that two runs feel like different games? Cheap to try, quick to lose, and I kept going anyway. Worth it.

Kindest strategy genre there is. You put a team together, you press go, and after that its out of your hands entirely. Losing costs you nothing.