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Point two is important. When your force is so small that a single pitched battle is pretty much it for either side, you don't really want to roll those dice unless you really like your odds
Contrary to what movies generally show, there's a time after battle, and most of the time there were more than two factions at play in a given region.
If you go all-in on one battle, and both factions battle to the last man then (a) you won't have anyone to do the next harvest and (b) you won't have anyone who could defend against any random third party to swoop in and easily take both factions' land.