ACOUP - Total War’s Missing Infantry-Type

Jumping to the recent Creative Assembly release, Total War: Warhammer III, Bret uses the Kislev hybrid infantry to discuss real world composite infantry. What were the principles of combining infantry types, what sort of tactics were employed in using them on the battlefield, and, especially regarding Creative Assembly’s output, what are the difficulties in modeling real-world composite infantry in strategy games?

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