Pausing during battles.

**Celtic_Punk** · 11-09-2008, 20:47

I'd like to use it less often to be honest. I've never ever played online though.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 11-09-2008, 20:52

I use it too. Depends how big that battle is and how important. If I could loose some FM's or important army then I pause a lot. I remeber that once I fought a battle 2 hours(It was in vanilla though and I was noob)!

**Celtic_Punk** · 11-09-2008, 21:01

I fought an hour long battle. but thats because there was around 10000 troops involved, and i didnt pause once. cept maybe to grab another white russian

**Pontius Pilate** · 11-09-2008, 21:17

Originally Posted by Celtic_Punk

I fought an hour long battle. but thats because there was around 10000 troops involved, and i didnt pause once. cept maybe to grab another white russian

10000 troops?? Must have been a custom battle with multiple factions right?

**SwissBarbar** · 11-09-2008, 21:23

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

**Celtic_Punk** · 11-09-2008, 21:28

Yep. I only play custom battles sometimes, but every so often I wanna have a massive battle you just cant get in campaign mode. The closest ive gotten to 10000 troops in Campaign mode was 7000 or so between me n Makedonia.