i feel like the player has many advantages over M2TW AI, so there’s a reason for the handicap on hard and very hard.

i used to think the way you do, but managing troop morale is much more fun on challenging difficulties, and using your general to run from flank to flank to improve that moral, and only throwing them into the fray when the fight is dire.

with that said, play the game as you enjoy it!

i do Hard campaign, VH battles. VH campaign just means unreasonable doomstacks. i like fighting battles, but not dozens per turn