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beingds2: that is exactly what I do and I have posted about this very same issue. I do several things to keep my casualties low though.

1) Don't do it if the men you're mixing up with have very high attack. I will do it more for instance with heavy infantry taking on spearmen. Any time my unit is superior, especially with a lot of armor.
2) Send 2 or 3 units of yours into theirs at once. Basically sharing the casualties, but also killing off/routing the enemy much quicker.
3) Works especially well in town squares taking out a last-stand remaining infantry/spear force if you surround them, and then move inside of them from all directions, then attack. I'm betting you do this too.
4) Instead of letting them mix 100%, just mix like 30% or so, then repeat after awhile (once the furthest back soldier is 100+ ft. back from the front lines!!! GRRR!!!). I do this with cavalry especially, just mixing a little bit, attack, then again a moment later.......keeps them hacking instead of falling asleep on their steeds. LOL

Another way to speed things up is have archers/crossbowmen in elevated firing positions (on walls?), firing down into the enemy unit. You'll take less friendly fire that way (from the firing angle), and of course the enemy unit will route real quick. Javelins do the same trick. As for field battles, if it's strictly inf. vs. inf., I just let `em duke it out, use time compression. :-)

Also just by having 2 or 3 units of yours stacked in one area (for city battles) you'll theoretically get things done 2-3 times faster.........exception being units like DNK's, DEK's, who need space to swing their weapon.

Peacemaker: I don't think it's realistic for a whole unit to get "exhausted" when only 20 men out of 120 did any fighting. That just personally drives me nuts, to the point that I mod many units to have more endurance. I should point out I play Retro, so they took away the high endurance many units have in vanilla.