Here's the thing.

I'm not exactly loaded, so my equipment don't have a lot of initiative (like, only 1st level refinement for all 20 pieces of equipment). In order to try and make up for that, I tend to push my guys all the way to the front (position 1 to 3) so that hopefully, I can knock out one of their guys before they knock out one of mine.

But many a times, my mysteries and standard attacks gets outsped by people from position 4 to 9 anyway even though my mysteries are prompt mysteries, and then my guys quickly get knocked out after that. Am I missing out something in the initiative stat or some other stat that allows them to overwrite positional movement orders?