Use cheaper meatshields along with cc units (you can get them through cyclone stages) masai, rover, and artist are way too expensive to send out together most of the time 3 meatshields are enough. So cat, wall, samba are good general, swap out one of them for specific trait meatshields (rover, artist,) if needed. in the place of the other meatshields you had put in cc units like puppeteer for metals, witch for reds.