Ah, I’d still like to know the answers to the questions I asked but just a heads up your mid game soft lock is related to this issue another player posted about here:
We’ve been looking into this and thought it had something to do with a bug that was already fixed. I’ve updated the bug report for the programmers the info from the thread linked above, but if you could add any additional info you have about your frozen battle in that other thread that would be great.