Pausing during battles.

[SwissBarbar]

i use it too, because in battle the soldiers are not only lead by ONE general but by his officers.They all have to make decisions for their men, related to the events happening in front of their eyes, not 4 miles away on the other flank of the battlefield. And these desicions happen probably by the same time. The centurion of the left flank does not wait to react on the enemys movement, till the centurion on the right flank has finished giving orders.

The AI reacts anyway extremly faster than you, because its a computer and not a human player. In my opinion its more realistic to use the pause button in campaign.

The multiplayer game of course is a completely different case, because its human vs human