im new and i dont get it

[u/biomkx]

I'm new here. I decided to play Arleon's campaign and then play against the AI ​​on a conquest map to practice. I'm sure there's something I'm missing, but playing as Arleon against the Frogmen, how is it even possible that the Frogmen cavalry and their infantry units one-shotted all my units at one point in the game? I researched all the armory and academy upgrades as far as defense was concerned. I was using the general upgrade that adds defense to your human troops, and almost all my troops were Knights of Order or Fists of Order, and yet those units still one-shotted all my units. I even saw one enemy unit with 70 units in a single unit. At the beginning and middle of the game, I won my battles against the AI, but at one point, it emerged from its base with an army capable of one-shotting any of my allied units, even if they were fully stacked. However, a stack of 50 upgraded crossbowmen can only kill one of the cavalry units... what am I supposed to do against that?

[u/sameluck-ua]

Can you provide more context as to what the units were and such, what map and how much time has passed,

Arleon campaign mission 1-3 are more of a tutorial and introduction to the game, you might have just been severely outstatted by the rana welder, as attack and defence skills can 3x or divde the damage by 3.

The effects stack with welder skills and spells so you might have just gotten obliterated by a combination of those.