At first glance I thought I had installed some sort of retro Wii type game... Characters are moved like chess pieces and battle has very little graphical special effects... and people turn out to be very delicate, fragile things when metal objects are driven into them. Mortality is high when you manage your troops poorly and when they are ill equipped and inexperienced. If you want to start a game with 12 characters and end up with the same 12 characters all polished and levelled this is not the game for you... people die. People get maimed. Brain damaged. Damn it my archer has a permanently broken elbow. Its like its medieval warfare or something. My advice, until you develop your own tactics... make a front rank of alternating spearmen and pikemen, use spearwall, hold your lines and attack with polearms while (hopefully) holding them back with spears until fatigued, the enemy thins down for mopping up or forced into closing. Especially with Orcs. Keep them at a safe distance. A few archers in the second rank is nice when they improve a bit too. But watch the overflow if they come around the ends of your lines... and force archers into melee. Keep a light weapon in the sack just in case.
