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I agree. The new combat dynamics are terrible. You can not do one sigle thing. Before, you could make a lot of moves in your turn with the combos, but now... You can not form those combos anymore, because before you start the enemy are already beating the crap out of you and when you see you are dead and losed. I do not like to complain, but what was the intention of changing it? To modernize or make better? Because it is being strange how it is for now, and it is not working well, I guess too.

Well, he can survive this encounter, because I made him remain alive in the end of this battle.  And the gist of it is that I guess that it is based on lucky, mostly. The Warlord would attack anyone in the party aleatorielly, and everyone of them have a limit of attacks that they can receive before dying. So you would need to finish the battle the faster that you can to avoid those deaths. But there are some tips that maybe can help you. 

1- Use Skru'vaks to defend your party instead of attacking the Warlod. He will have a few shields that would make your party members alive for some more time thus getting more hits.

2- If you rise the lust level of the Warlord to max with lust attacks he will focus at least one attack on you but, since it will be a lust attack you would recover health at the end of it, so in the end he would just lose life and his turn.

3-  Some party members would not die after the battle. They would just leave the battle. So they are prefereably the best to take some damage first.

4- You could aways save/load your game separetedly after every action to choose whose the person to take the damage.

If I'm not wrong that was the things I've done to made Bradley stay alive through the end. Hope that I helped.