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There's a couple things you can do hereġ. Notice the white bar under the units green and red bar (health bars) this Feral Manticore has taken so much focus fire that it has lost of it's white bar and has broken so now it will run until it musters enough courage (leadership) to return to the fight with a highly reduced white bar. This is one of the best things you can do in a battle, breaking a units morale to make them flee. When they get close to the enemy pause the game then select your frontline units and double right click them on enemy front line units to charge and get a charge damage bonus. Also sending my melee lord against the enemy melee lord to duel and and tie him up so he doesn't go killing my units. Don't select your whole army, just your front line and double right click the unit you want them to attack so they charge in and get a charge damage bonus. Everything will be super slow giving you time to see where you need to move units where or who to attack) when they were about to get to my army so I can counter charge them with my fresh frontline units. Here I just let them come to me and let them tire themselves out charging me and paused it (top right corner of the screen, slomo that is right next to the pause icon is also a good tool to help new players manage the battlefield. Need pictures of these stunties crushing these Chaos.
TOTAL WAR SHOGUN 2 BEGINNER GUIDE UPDATE
I'll edit this in a second let me play this match real quick and I'll update this with some more basic combat tips. When my ranged are attacked I'll bring another unit in to help them or I'll have other ranged units attack who ever is attacking the other ranged units. I also turn off Skirmish Mode ( Icon on the bottom right) so my ranged units don't run away if they are engaged by enemies in melee. Once I do that I always turn on Guard Mode (that shield icon on the bottom) so my units don't chase and break formation when the enemy I'm fighting runs away. Maybe at most your cavalry units.) Once they are grouped click that lock to lock their formation.
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After you have them set up the way you want press cntrl + A to select your whole army then cntrl + G to group them (You can cntrl + any number if you want to assign different units to different groups, but you really don't need to.