Mykan
Oh Wise One
Notice in your screenshot that the enemy only has 4 stacks. So the fight is in your favour, if they had 5 squads then you would see their squad size is about 85. When they have less then 5 they scale it up and when they have more than 5 they scale it down. Otherwise the difficulty would change because 8 squads of size 100 is harder then 4 squads of size 100.
The highlight cells can be misleading as they show you units that are neutral and advantage against. In the case of your photo 5 golems or 5 orc strategists should have won with minimal issue, barring map issues. If 5 golems lost that fight on auto you are left with manual fighting or catering, once in a while a bad map layout can cause you to lose when you shouldn't. 5 sworddancers will show as decent, but may not be ideal, as they are close combat instead of ranged units and the counter unit specialises against light melee.
Something else you need to be mindful of at your stage of the game is the star rating of each troop type. In that photos all of your troops and the enemy are 2 star, so fairly even, in later rounds though you can find yourself up against 3 star enemies so they end up better in both quantity and quality. This difference also comes into play when choosing between your barracks troops and your specialty troops (orc strategist)
The highlight cells can be misleading as they show you units that are neutral and advantage against. In the case of your photo 5 golems or 5 orc strategists should have won with minimal issue, barring map issues. If 5 golems lost that fight on auto you are left with manual fighting or catering, once in a while a bad map layout can cause you to lose when you shouldn't. 5 sworddancers will show as decent, but may not be ideal, as they are close combat instead of ranged units and the counter unit specialises against light melee.
Something else you need to be mindful of at your stage of the game is the star rating of each troop type. In that photos all of your troops and the enemy are 2 star, so fairly even, in later rounds though you can find yourself up against 3 star enemies so they end up better in both quantity and quality. This difference also comes into play when choosing between your barracks troops and your specialty troops (orc strategist)