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Examples of melee combat are given in the pdf document Ancient Warfare Rules "AW Manual V5" . I have copied one example here -

Example #1
A force of 40 HC charge downhill into the rear of a disrupted Light Cavalry unit.
The Melee Effectiveness Chart tells us that HC armed with light spears attacking LC creates an initial Losses Factor of 6. We next apply modifiers to that number to reflect the particular circumstances of this melee. Attacking Downhill provides a +1 modifier, so we now have 6+1= a modified Losses factor of 7. We add 2 more points for charging in to the rear of a unit and 2 more for "HC charging in". Note that the enemy's disrupted status does not give the attacker an extra point, it only impacts the enemy unit's ability to strike back. Our final Losses factor is 7+4 = 11.
We want to cross reference that row to the column corresponding to the number of troops we are attacking with. That number is 16. Although there are 40 HC in the hex only the front rank of 16 men are eligible for combat. Thus we come up with an actual casualty score of 10.