One of the big themes of the battles RJ wrote was the meaninglessness of the overall plan to the individuals in the battle.

This is completely absent from sandersons description of battles. The siege of Maradon in tGS has only one POV and it is from the general in command of Rands forces. Although he does at times think out loud that he is isolated and cannot see all his men, there is no feeling of isolation or dread that accompanies most RJ battle scenes.

As for it's resolution, it frankly reads like an A-team script. I may be wrong, but I never felt RJ had a enemies follow the plan as exactly as BS does.

The build up to the trial / battle between Perrin and the whitecloaks is frankly ridiculous. RJ has shown time and time again that ruthless soldiers win, the parlay and the back and forth negotiating and waiting for other armies to line up against you is a massive tangent to anything that has been seen in WoT before.

Perrins later, criminal failure to inform his troops and captains they are about to attack trollocs and not the whitecloaks they appear to be is also cringing to read.

I can see why it was done. Create some artificial tension by having perrin, not tell or never mention to his most trusted captains or any of his troops what the real target is until moments before a battle. Why nit write the scene from a whitecloak pov then???? It's lazy and bad generation of tension.

The battle itself is a mess. There is absolutely no sense of urgency or worry.

The two armies who moments ago were pointed at each other successfully repel the orderly attacks and coherent tactics of the bubbling mass of animal like shadow spawn.