European Barbarorum: A point of critique

[stalin]

In real life battles lasted longer than 5 minutes.
Actually it is way easier for you to roleplay the command delays in your game in same way some of us have house rules and so on. There is a game like you described here:
http://www.legionarena.com/
with demo here:
http://www.vgpro.com/file/4353_legionarenademo.exe.html
so you can test the gameplay