If a player play in cloth map only mode and skip all tactical battles, there are probably a lot of things loaded in memory which are not used by the game. For example, building models, terrain texture, some unit model and texture (still need something for the pawns).

I was thinking why could there not be a mode, activated in command line parameter for example, that would force the game to play in cloth map mode only and auto-battle the combat. You would not be allowed to switch back in 3d mode during the game.

The difference is that during the loading, the game will skip loading all the stuff that you actually don't need to play the game since you skip battles and play on the cloth map. This would speed up loading time, use less memory and make the game run faster (less file swapping).

What do you think?

Could it be done?