While I love engaging in the tactical combat, I find it to be frustratingly slow after I have gone through a couple of fights.  I would love to see some option to disable the combat animations (and/or all tactical animations), with the intent of being able to issues commands faster, and combat to execute faster.  This could also reduce the performance requirements of low powered systems.

This could also be applied to the world map with army movement/city animations.  I find much more often than not that I play with the cloth map to try and recreate this.  This means unfortunately, that I miss the nice models that have been created for everything.