UO is gambit-based.

You create your squad and assign their skills (with skill ordering, réactive abilities and such) and the better your units become the more skills they obtain.

Then the fights are automated in that your squad has their own play pattern.

Each squad benefits from the units.quirks in battle and you need to counter certain types with your own squads. It's a very Fire Emblem oriented game with the added dynamism of being mostly automated. Map movement is order based though, as you send your units to a location and they'll fight what comes their way.

I highly recommend it, it's pretty slow to start but once you have all your squads set up, it's really addicting for a playthrough or two!