Once combat has begun the units will fight tactically as determined by a selection made by the player. Characters can be variously armed with knives, spears, maces, great-swords, axes, clubs and lances, along with units that simply fight with their bare hands; Archers fall into subcategories, including short bow units, longbow units and crossbow units.

During combat large number of characters will be seen engaged in, at times, frenetic fighting. The violence depicted will result in the death of a great many of the characters, however there is no blood nor is there any discernible injuries caused to a character. Cut scenes within the game provide the most realistic looking violence and invariably is caused by swords strikes to the body of another character.