Order Automatica Guide: Synergies, Grid Positioning, and Unit Merging

To clear runs in Order Automatica, commit early to matching unit traits, save your gold through the first three waves instead of rerolling, and check whether merging units will accidentally disable beneficial grid auras.

Prioritizing Trait Synergies Over Raw Unit Tier

Drafting individual high-tier units without shared tags weakens your board overall. Units perform best when their passive traits interact across adjacent grid spaces.

Match Trait Tags: Select units sharing operational tags like "Mechanical" or "Aggressive." Stacking matching tags creates feedback loops, such as a kill on one unit triggering stat buffs for neighboring allies.
Avoid Diluting the Pool: Purchasing every high-rarity card in the shop fills your board with strong individual stats that lack tactical synergy. Stick to a primary synergy theme once identified.

Managing the Shop Economy and Rerolls

Gold is your core resource for board scaling and unit upgrades. Poor spending during early waves leaves you unable to react to later difficulty spikes.

Establish an Early Board: Spend your starting gold on basic unit presence during waves 1 through 3. Do not spend gold on shop rerolls during this initial phase.
Target Unit Duplicates: Once a basic board is active, spend gold to search for identical unit duplicates required for evolutions.
Bank Reserve Gold: If the shop does not offer units matching your core synergy, save your remaining gold for the next wave instead of forcing multiple rerolls.

Tactical Grid Positioning and Formation

Enemy targeting AI focuses on the nearest available target. The small grid format requires deliberate placement to protect damage dealers and maximize support effects.

Unit Type	Recommended Placement	Primary Function
Tanks	Front Line	Draw enemy aggro and absorb incoming single-target damage
Support / Buffers	Center or Rear Line	Stay alive to project aura effects to adjacent units
Fragile DPS	Back Line / Behind Tanks	Deal uninterrupted damage from a safe distance

Before starting a round, check the enemy formation. If long-range enemies are present, widen your unit spacing to prevent splash damage from hitting multiple units simultaneously.

Balancing the Trade-Offs of Unit Merging

Combining identical units into a higher tier improves base stats and frees up grid space, but it also reduces the total count of active units on your board.

Combine When Space Is Limited: Merge units when you need extra grid slots to deploy new support pieces or high-tier additions.
Hold Separate Units for Auras: If your strategy relies on multiple simultaneous triggers or overlapping aura effects, keep two separate units on the field rather than combining them into one.

Adapting to Counter Waves

If a build begins failing against specific wave types, check the shop for counter-utility options. Adding a single low-tier unit with a crowd-control trait can alter target behavior and disrupt enemy attack chains more effectively than adding raw stat upgrades to an existing piece.