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Aggh, Max, you have forced me to be serious!

It depends on the nation and forces I am using, but sometimes for critical battles I actually will look at afflictions, and if I need bodyguards on mages then limpers can do that instead of being accidentally in some "attack rear" squad. Or limpers with shields can be in the front as arrow decoys, on "hold & attack" or "guard commander" or "attack closest" depending on where I'd prefer the opposing army to shoot, assuming at least some of their archers are on "fire closest". It's only diseased units (and militia etc) that will get orders like "attack cavalry."

I'll make sure that if the first archer in a row lights up that he's not diseased and still has all his important appendages. If I see my enemy has been shooting my archers then I'll use the 'W' key to make some groups of damaged archer archer-decoys.

Or if I have healing available, I'll pull out the units with non-trivial afflictions and send them to the hospital.

For critical battles I will also use the 'E' key to make elite squads.

There's not much point in doing any of this if my army is so afflicted that they'd be better off just begging in the streets, or I have overwhelming forces, or the opposing army has overwhelming forces.