I can honestly say that i only ever used pause once in a battle.It was when i was blitzing through France with and Egyptian army and i accidentally left them sitting in a province for one turn.I was invaded by the French..............with a little help from large German,Italian and English armies.I didn't notice it on the pre-battle screen and i had to pause to get over the shock of the enemy having 4 times my number on the field ALL AT ONCE.I had to keep pausing in that battle just to make sure i could give orders to prevent flanking.I'll never forget that one battle.