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For combat, the instructions say "Each side rolls 1d6 and the highest roll goes first. PC’s roll initiative twice and act in full on both turns. Re-roll matching initiatives". Does this mean you would roll one time for an entire group of enemies? When it says "side", to me that implies the entirety of the opposing force as opposed to rolling for individual enemies. 

Also, the rules say that "Combat is played out in rounds, with each round requiring an initiative roll". To me this means that a round includes all player and enemy turns. The following  section says that "Each combat round happens in a sequence: " and then lists the five steps of the round. Does this then mean that  each step is done one at a time in initiative order before moving on to the next step? For example, Step 1: Player moves, then enemy moves; Step 2 Enemy fires arrow, Step 3 Player uses magic attack etc... OR am I making this too complicated and it simply means that whomever has first initiative does steps 1-5 then whomever has second initiative then does their 1-5 steps? If so, to me its confusing to list ranged, magic, and melee as steps 2-4 as opposed to just saying "Attacks". I hope this all makes sense!

Yes, each side is the collective. You and your allies are one side, your enemies are another side. You do not roll for each individual enemy.

Yes, a round of combat includes all player actions and enemy actions. Everybody gets to do their thing per round. Roll Initiative. Side A acts in full. Side B acts in full. Roll Initiative. etc. Obviously the player character gets to Act twice, so that may be AAB, ABA, BAA

You are making it too complicated. One side does 1-5, then the other side does 1-5. 

The specificity of the attacks is to help you determine the attack order for the enemies, as well as to help guide your own character's actions. Avoiding archer fire while engaged in melee has a very different feel if the Melee acts first vs the Ranged, especially if you take into account the reaction penalties to avoid multiple attacks during combat. 

Awsome! Thank you so much for the answer!