I tried it before, I it is fun to win the battles if your commander gets the high ground and over look the battle field from a distant were you can command your armies more efficiently(for max zoom games that is). The down side is you can't commit your commanders unless you are sure of victories and in most normal games, having the commander and his body guards doing the flank and rear charges can win you the game more easily. so I got to get another family member to do the job. But when your army gets bigger and you are forced to engage a battle in level ground it is really a pain. you simply don't have time to react fast enough to minimise casualties, which is usually horribly high! I feel that the best way to command your armies on level ground is get your commander into the front and place him on either the extreme left or right end of the army battle line.

But I still do my deployments on normal view mode



This can cause serious shortage of man power when it comes to managing important the cities, you don't want lose your cities and town to some rich Computer diplomat.