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Pausable Battles on Legendary Difficulty

TWW2 is no longer getting patches or DLC, so my mods are also considered final and will not receive any more updates. Therefore I disabled comments on all of them to avoid constantly getting notifications for the same dumb questions that have been answered a thousand times already. Any comments or announcements I might make in the future will be posted under my collection here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1766089433

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Allows to - almost - pause battles on Legendary difficulty so that you can enjoy the other special features of Legendary difficulty without being forced to become a full RTS player. Well, technically it only slows down the battle by 90%, but that means you still have 10x the normal time to make decisions.

I've always loved Ironman mode in turn-based games but unfortunately Total War developers have this misguided idea that absolutely everyone who loves Ironman must also be an avid real-time-strategy player. Since those two things actually have no connection whatsoever, I tried to somehow make Legendary battles pausable. That isn't quite possible, but 90% slower speed might be close enough.

Note that sm0kin's Adjustable Battlespeed mod already enabled this, basically as a side effect, but I found it too cumbersome to move the mouse and click the speed buttons and enter a number on the keyboard every time I wanted to pause/unpause. So instead, this mod creates two new keyboard shortcuts so you can pause/unpause with a single keystroke.

IMPORTANT: SIMPLY SUBSCRIBING TO THE MOD IS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE IT WORK. You also have to follow these simple steps after subscribing:
Download this custom keyboard shortcuts file that contains the definitions for the new shortcuts I created:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dfmb4n1pyk47auz/jadawin_keys.keys.xml?dl=1
You have to save/copy it into the appropriate folder. Open any explorer window and click on the location bar, then paste this location into it and hit enter to open the folder:
%appdata%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer2\custom_keys
By default this location will be at:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer2\custom_keys
When the file is at that correct location, start the game and go to Options->Controls->Load Keys. You will now see the "jadawin_keys", load it. Now in the "Battle" section you will see two new shortcuts right at the top, "LegendaryPause" and "LegendaryUnpause". By default they will be mapped to I and U, but you can also map them to any other key you want. (Unfortunately it has to be two different keys, not just one key that acts as a toggle like the normal Pause button.)

Doing this does not create any incompatibilities with other mods and does not affect the vanilla game if you later disable this mod. The only thing that happens is that if you had previously made changes to the default keyboard mappings, you have to re-apply your personal changes.

Notes:
-while "paused", the UI becomes sluggish because it basically also operates at only 10% speed. However in my tests it was possible to rapidly select units and issue commands even if they are not immediately acknowledged in the UI
-the game does not tell you that combat is "paused" except that everything moves very slowly
-if you need to actually pause the game (without ability to issue orders/move camera) you can of course still use the normal pause button or ESC

Should be compatible with everything and savegame-compatible.