Even at low level, the easiest way to defeat the enemies is the same cheesy method because the AIs were still horrible.
For example, I had an enemy ran across the map just to use recovery on my Fane because somehow he knows that guy is an undead.
Or if you set up an oil field on them and apply the slow (which goes through cc immune), they either
1) try to run through it and never get to act if they don't have a way to just jump right on you with a warfare skill
or
2) Try to run around it and run out of AP before doing anything.
The +5 ini is really ridiculous though and it forces me to recalculate how much Wit I need just to always go first. It's best you just start saving up level up points to use on demand after a quick reload.
