Galactic Conquest Difficulty

I've noticed a change in Galactic Conquest - Normal difficulty. It used to be a well balanced challenge to make it to box 7. Now It seems that an R7 Padme at 321 speed or R7 Darth Revan 315 speed are struggling to get turns in, and I'll be lucky to make it to box 6 Are you preloading turn-meter on all nodes now?