Unit speed in RTW is indeed WAY too fast

[Red Harvest]

I have to wonder if some of you are playing larger battles yet.

I played a large siege last night with many reinforcing armies on both sides and the battle went into the night.

I'm enjoying the single player as much as I hoped for.

??? With the game imposed timer, how do you get a battle to go into the night? How do you get it to go more than 20 minutes? I've never seen the actual fighting last more than 10 minutes (and most of that is chasing routers.) A long battle with two full stacks usually has less than 60 seconds of melee before the cavalry runs everyone down.

[d6veteran]

??? With the game imposed timer, how do you get a battle to go into the night? How do you get it to go more than 20 minutes?

I was refering to a single player battle.

[Red Harvest]

I was refering to a single player battle.

Ahhhh...OK. Some of the descriptions by folks are so contrary to what I've seen that I'm beginning to wonder if CA randomized our installs...

CA Installer (for Customer 1): "OK, he installed in the afternoon on a Thursday, so he gets 20 minute timer, no weather, units rout easily, cav are set to turbo."

CA Installer (for Customer 2): "This person filled out the registration form on a Friday, so they get no timer, lots of weather, and infantry that fight real battles."

[Nigel]

Tweaking the speeds to a 10% reduction works good I find. [...] - all multiplayer battles

Just for my information (dont have the game yet).
You mean to say that you can reduce the overall speed by 10% and go and play MP games with those settings with anyone? Or do both players need the same patch ?

[Morindin]

All my multiplayer games have been prior to tweaking with the config files of course :)