Quote Originally Posted by isellj0epnuts
If you suffered for long in a vanilla M2TW campaign, you may have noticed that auto-resolved battles tended to give your generals the 'battle scarred' trait. Apparently when given control of your forces, the computer calculates that your generals will act like Alexandros Reborn and charge into the thick of the action. Generals who excessively lose hitpoints in battle will gain traits like 'battle scarred' in vanilla, and the 'injuries' in AD.

My suggestion is to leave rebel battles in the hands of your captains...
And in the next versions rebel armies won't be so much cloned so to make the autoresolve option a less desirable opportunity.