I don't underestimate what it can do at all. I also don't underestimate how poorly it holds defensively against any of the subsequent metas. I actually thought Zaul would make a slight resurgence against the JTR meta due to it's efficacy there, but that didn't come to pass.
I didn't say anybody was catching up to you. That's long since passed. I said they're pulling away from you. It's the nature of power creep. I'd estimate that your shard is probably about a year old. Everything about your roster and mods tells me you're fully FTP, and that's fine, but you can't always expect parity with those who aren't.
To my original point, I did over 25 battles myself the past two days against several permutations of JTR squads, most of them recorded. Much of my payout group did the same. No unusual behavior at all, not even once. When I say not unusual, that means we're already aware of the turn meter issues and they're still functioning in the normal broken way in a mirror match.
