Is there some way for me to influence a general's battle tactics without controlling the whole army myself? Just had a dumb defeat which could have been easily avoided.

I just entered a battle alongside my fellow Sturgians, 700 vs 700 of the Khuzait. We had an overwhelming amount of elite infantry and a decent amount of archers, less cavalry. The enemy had the usual Khuzait mixup with a lot of archers and cavalry, but lacking infantry. I had control of about 1/8th of the army so I F6'd my boys for coherency. ​

I would think the strategy should be to quickly close the distance via shieldwall and leverage our superior infantry while our cavalry attempts to keep their cavalry off our archers who stays close behind the line. But what does my dumbfuck general do? He keeps our men in shieldwall for 10+ minutes while we get shot to bits watching our cavalry get slaughtered. Then when the enemy charges he keeps us in shieldwall so that our already damaged infantry has no offensive power while they get overwhelmed and our archers get trampled. In short we lost by a large margin.

Is there some way for me to motivate our troops to charge as a whole when the general wants to take a defensive position, without controlling the army myself? Having to sacrifice my 100+ band of elite boys because of these kinds of tactics is heartbreaking.

TLDR: My general does not leverage our army's strengths and gets us all slaughtered, taking a defensive position for way to long. How can I motivate him to e.g. charge?

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