Can someone please explain autobattles and archers?

[Principes]

I attacked an Iron Barony orc army that had 4melee units and 8 archers with a cloudfell giant army with 6 goblins, 4ogres, 1 orc, 2 eagles, 2 harpies, and a stone and cloud giant. I lost 14 units and managed to kill 1 of his. The archers just kept shooting and my guys just sat there. Are they really that overpowered or is this a bug.
Update: Okay I have rerun this battle with different combinations of units and the archers are definitely firing many more times than my guys get to attack. The best I have managed is 1 kill on the enemy. In the second phase of the battle his archers appear to fire twice and just completely eradicate my army. I don't see how this can be balanced under any scheme.

[Rvlion]

Maybe it is an idea not to autobattle?

During my playing days I remember a melee fase/archer fase and all at the same time fase.

This does not happen during a manual battle, you should easily have won that battle on manual.
Cloudfell is very cool to play with, but always with manual battles to take advantage of their melee strength.

[Principes]

I won it on tactical, but was surprised that autobattle yielded such radically different outcomes. I could live with a poor autobattle system if you weren't forced to fight autobattles in larger scenarios because you don't have enough heroes.

[Jekky]

Does this refer to 1.9 or 2.0?

The autobattles have changed quite a lot in 2.0, so it's important to know if this is an issue relating to an older version, or if it is a current issue which we need to resolve still.

[Principes]

Appears to be 1.9. Ill update to 2.0 and check if issue continue

[friendlysnail]

Thanks for your valuble information and please provide me any tips and tricks..