Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius Nero
Honestly, I never understood why people turn off the battle timer, it is there as a failsafe against the AI's invincible idiocy; anyone who has been besieged and attacked in a city with the besieging AI army refusing to move (following the "I can wait longer than you can, I don't have to get married" strategy) will think twice before turning it off again :P

Anyway, I have been playing RTW mods for ages now and so far I have seen maybe 1 or at most 2 battles actually end prematurely due to battle timer, so I don't see why so much animus against this feature really.
Which is why you turn the timer back on before a battle when you are defending a city :D