Quote Originally Posted by MrWhipple
To be fair to CA 20 min may be a bit short in some cases, but in real war, (and I speak from experience) Time limits are very real. Fatigue, rations, water, weather, health, all play a part. To say nothing about how truly freaked out you get just knowing that there is someone out there in the bush with an AK with a round with your name on it. Also there is the bigger picture to think about. If my troopers don't take objective X by time T then unit Z gets the s**t blown out of it because I screwed up by lolly gagging around having a short arm drill with the guys.
But those are time limits and deadlines produced by the actions and decisions of the respective command groups we have to deal with those as part of any battle anyway. If the enemy is bearing down on your archers with a bunch of light cavalry you know you only have a limited time to get your own cavalry over there and save their arses.

The CA 20 min rule is a totally artificial time limit which basically says 'We don't give a f*ck what your strategic plan is, you do it in 20 minutes or we are going to switch the world off.' As such its rubbish and shouldn't have been made mandatory in the first place, especailly as its another of those features which was already optional in the previous games.