Pausing during battles.

[Legosoldier]

I don't always pause during battles, unless it's a forrest battle or I'm trying to get used to playing a battle again because I rarely get to play EB.

[gamerdude873]

I pause generally because the AI can micromanage and command all of its soldiers simultaneously, so i find it fair to pause, but generally i pause a heck of alot more when in a forest, when the battle is humongous, or when my soldiers are far apart and are difficult to manage. If i played against a human player, I think it would be much easier for me because i'd be playing against someone who doesn't think 1000's of times faster and is limited by the camera in viewing the battlefield.

[Terraforce]

You do know that you can disable the restrict camera option to view the entire battlefield right?

[The_Brittunculi]

I pause mainly to perform lots of commands at once which wouldn't be as effective if I had to do them one at a time, since my computer is slow and battles can sometimes be laggy for me. I also pause to see exactly what's going on.

[hoom]

I used to pause all the time in Shogun, less often but still fairly frequently in MTW but hardly at all in RTW and its mods.

I always pause right at the start of a Bridge Defence battle because you don't get to deploy properly before the battle starts & if you don't pause, the enemy is likely to get a bridgehead before your guys get a chance to form up.

Otherwise I only really use it if I made some monumental blunder like immediately starting battle on a Siege Defence without deploying or if I'm in the middle of a battle & accidentally click wrong, sending my army all out of formation.
Sometimes I just play on though with the assumption that my blunder represents a surprise attack or a dunderhead General.

[Chris1959]

Call of nature, phone call (not always, turn sound down though), beeper requires me in the kitchen.

Anyway why would you want to pause in battle!

[Dutchhoplite]

Never do it

[Grriffon]

I pause A LOT. I want my troops to be doing EXACTLY what I want them to do EXACTLY when I want them to do it. Sometimes this means manually moving troops to an exact location instead of right click attacking a unit, or charging through a unit in order to make sure all soldiers are attacking and not slowly advancing with swords drawn while 3 soldiers fight, or running in a totally different direction because you had more than 1 unit selected at a time.

Since my troops generally behave like retards unless I monitor their every move and tell them what to do individually and sometimes multiple times the pause button is absolutely essential for me.

Also, I LOVE the artwork in this game. Pausing does give me a chance to zoom in and enjoy the action. Pausing before an elephant rush hits home ensures front row seats for the ensuing carnage.

[theoldbelgian]

I pause A LOT. Also, I LOVE the artwork in this game. Pausing does give me a chance to zoom in and enjoy the action. Pausing before an elephant rush hits home ensures front row seats for the ensuing carnage.

my point exactly