Sorry. I was really hoping for Cyrus to move so I could use my javelin without retaliation, let him take care of the archer with his superior damage output, and stick to the hills to help with evasion against my low HP until the next turn came around, but if need be, I'll take the open terrain.
Nobody is the 'planner' for FEF5 from what we've seen and nobody wants to take up the mantle (for good reason), so we're trying to go back to how we did things in (parts of) FEF1.
So we have to have a heavier focus on communication and idea spinning instead of how we got used to doing things and push it off to being "the planner's problem." If you had a better or different idea than the really brief (honestly just an excuse as to why we haven't posted our actions yet and a basic thought of what we might do) one we had, we would have loved to hear it instead of having it being a drive-by comment that was too late to act on.
We hoped Lizbeth would move too, but we said so openly, said why and presented a possible scenario, and didn't commit on the actions on the case that we or someone else might have thought of something better since it involved other people's characters. In this scenario it doesn't really matter because besides the two bosses or unfortunate circumstance we aren't really in any sort of honest danger, but that makes it a good test bed to get the process straightened out.
TL;DR
Don't apologize, converse.
And
Communication is key and all that.
On the note of communication, and to not double post, FOE and I are debating some Galen-Football (read: trade shenanigans mixed with rescue shenanigans) to retain defensive terrain and to move our heavy artillery that is Galen away from the soon-to-be sea of red frontline. Since having six or so enemies who can punch out our squishy but powerful mage is worrisome.