You need to watch a couple of their time travel videos. The time travel is flexible and the time steps are tiny. Because you can move forwards, backwards, pause

You need to watch a couple of their time travel videos. The time travel is flexible and the time steps are tiny. Because you can move forwards, backwards, pause and fast forward time you can try several strategies until you find the best one for a given fight. Your objection about spending a lot of time fighting AI is a valid one, it was my main objection too. It seems that it is so easy for the actual player to go back and tweak the battle if they didn't like the results that the AI complaint is moot. Also, you can provide pretty rich standing orders and hierarchies for your troops. If anything, you will fight AI less than in a typical RTS - since a normal (not superhuman) opponent cannot manage all their troops at once, whereas in this game any opponent can slow stuff down until they can manage everything.