Yeah, keyboard and mouse works just fine for me. I have no idea why you'd use a controller at all. The warband management screen has so many dense menus, if I had to use a controller I'd throw the damn thing through the wall.
After several fairly crushing defeats in a row due to unbelievably crappy luck and poor tactics on my part, my Skaven warband a) had a bunch of people injured beyond what I consider recoverable and b) was out of money. So, I click 'disband warband' only to find out that that button just fires everyone, rather than ending the "campaign". Still, I was determined to get rid of this... uh... stain upon uh... Skaven... uh... pride... so I found the option within the 'Load Warband' menu to delete the warband. I don't think I've ever been so satisfied to get rid of a persistent squad that I've run in any game.
The next squad is called something along the lines of "Useless Twats", and so far they haven't failed too badly. I keep waiting though. I'm still having trouble figuring out what skills are good for what type of guy. Apparently, the number of available action and strategy points gets higher as a character levels up. Although I have trouble believing any of these pricks are going to survive to get to level ten given their tendency to whiff multiple times in a row on 80% odds attacks.
Some tips I've worked out:
- Concentrate your force, don't spread out. Your guys suck to begin with (as do the opponents, in reality), the missions scale to your warband's strength and you're almost never going to have have a superior force, so your only real chance to win a map is to put the bad guys down quick and force morale checks. The AI tends to spread out, which means that you have time to engage them piecemeal and wipe them out. This does have the downside that you don't get as much wyrdstone and loot off the map, but I find it's better to not die.
- The one exception is that I've found it pretty effective to run a guy up to the enemy cart and steal their idol (and their other stuff while you're at it) to drop their morale (and thus force them to make a retreat roll)
- Don't be shy about disengaging/retreating. If your little dude is outnumbered and outclassed, disengage and sprint back to your main force. Unfortunately, there is no option to beat a retreat from a battle entirely without everyone having a chance at a permanent injury and loss of equipment. So, you're going to have to stick it out.
- Don't bother with shields on your scrubs until you can level them up. I've got two scrubs with halberds and while they're not very good, they hurt when they hit. A scrub with a weapon and shield has a lower dodge chance, lower initiative so they act later in the round and the benefits are very minor (small amount of damage reduction and increase in parry chance - which is no good until you can level them up).
- You don't really need to use 'perception'. It took me some learning the hard way, but I think I've figured out what most of the traps look like so it's pretty easy to avoid them.
- Be somewhat wary of picking up wyrdstone, as it generally tends to zap you with "unwanted side effects" or straight up damage. Some guys have pretty good resistance against it, try to use those. Of course, some guys derive a benefit from it...
I'll see if I can post some writeups about my squad or some of the scavenging trips they've gone on.
I had a close battle against a chaos warband and, despite taking out one of their heroes and 3 of their henchmen, their leader and a really tough hero managed to bring down my assassin and force my warband to rout. I lost my level 3 night runner in the rout and my leader got 3 nasty injuries... nasty enough that I probably need to replace him, but I don't have the money for that unless I sell some of my warpstone on the black market instead of saving it to send back to complete my next shipment.
Guilty. 
