Quote Originally Posted by Tiberius Nero
I agree completely, time limits are there for countering AI stupidity in such cases; at any rate in the hundreds of battles I have played over dozens of campaigns there has been perhaps one or two instances where a battle ended due to time limit and I would have prefered it to continue; most big battles should be over in ~20 minutes at most anyway.
That's one of the reasons for me too, additionally there is the problem of horse archers running around infinitely if you do not have some very fast cavalry units too.