Lots of CTD's

[king of thracia]

When the matchup screen comes up, before you click 'Assault'
press ~ to bring up the console and type
auto_win attacker
if you are the attacker
auto_win defender
if you are the defender

I do this to skip past battles once I've played them out to an annoying crash.

The good part is a CTD can save me from a battle going poorly and let me reset :)
But I do keep playing when my armies get crushed. Which is never :) since I always win, losses keep things interesting