One more suggestion

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Originally Posted by Mobhack

Auto rally does a rally attempt for all units at end turn. Why one would turn that preference to off eludes me, unless the user wants everyone to rout off the map??

I often play with it off so that some units that are in retreat mode will do so vs possibly rally and stay in place (which might be a bad place to stay in)

Its not as critical in WinSP as it was in WAW due to the former's far more durable portrayal of soft units. Doing so, I just accept the fact that I have to manually rally all forces though. Big battles, I'd agree that the easiest solution is to just turn the feature back on. Micromanagement has its price.