Quote Originally Posted by afrit
Good move Yakobu,
The only times I use the Pause nowadays are for "legitimate" reasons (phone calls, pages, food etc). And the occasional absolutely crucial battle where I feel a bit behind, and then only use it once or twice at most. I find that it kills the tempo of the game and actually interrupts the thought process.
I use "esc" for that.

I'm going to go off on a small tangent here and compare pausing in TW with cheating in GTA. I got in the habbit of cheating in GTA 3 and would instinctively enter the cheats without even thinking. It kind of spoiled the fun after a while. So when Vice City came out, I didn't look up the cheats, and enjoyed the game that much more for not having used them. I find pausing to be the same, although I have only started pausing after playing the Rome: Total War demo. I find it really interrupts the battle. In Medieval, I feel better off for not bothering to know the pause key.