Quote Originally Posted by Morindin
What gives you the idea that RTW isnt simulating 'hours long battles' ? Have you played the campaign long enough yet to get that are the size of the real life ones that HAD hours long battles?

I seriously doubt anyone has played the game enough to get 10,000's of armies or even 45,000 yet but I have no doubt that they will last just as long, if not longer, than MTW.

I can't imagine a battle of a few hundred men forming one line of battle, which is common in this stage of RTW to last for "hours". Not only would it be highly unrealistic it would be EXTREMELY boring.

I think many peoples judgements are way premature. One thing ive noticed about RTW that will give it potential for longer battles with bigger armies is the fact that routing units dont seem to set off a chain rout through your entire army.
Read my post. I put 'simulating' in quotation marks, not hour-long battles. I feel the game right now is quite unrealistic and more importantly not fun to play.

Besides which my post was not aimed at you, but rather at a previous comment which said adrenaline would provide the speed boost we see in the game.

Anyway, what you seem to be suggesting is that RTW is a 1:1 scale of regular roman combat. I may have missed this somewhere, but please provide me with a link explaining how the Romans conquered Sicily with a couple hundred men.

Obviously the game is on more of a 10:1 or even a 100:1 (that's probably a bit too high) scale. So I expect battles to last a bit longer than 20 seconds when I fight with around 1000 "game men".