To not prolong this, because I bet my relationship building with Leonel isn't the most interesting thing for anybody who reads this, I'm just going to say we had a lot of fun. Our original conclusions survived a storm of crazy ideas, which started popping into our heads to change either the arsenal, or the whole build in general, but eventually, each one of them got overthrown, usually by a long argument.
In the end, we made the automaton, and it performed well.
You might be wondering why I put all this boring stuff, here, and only now I'm deciding to go with a time skip - because that's what this is. The answer is quite simple, and you will understand it very soon.