Just what does the computer think about during battles?

[JonBrave]

Originally Posted by JonBrave

Now, my understanding is, when the computer does an end turn sequence, it must actually "play out" the battles, saving all the choices/dice rolls/outcomes as it goes, and the battles are "visual replays" of what happened.

I wonder whether I've just figured my own question? I had assumed that during end-turn the battle moves were saved, and later just replayed. I guess instead Dom3 must rely on re-resolving the battles but with visuals during View Battle, and dice-rolls repeated as they were. With a sufficently robust deterministic algorithm. And hence the occasional glitch where people report different visual behaviour from result, where it doesn't quite get it "right"?

[EDIT]
OK, even if this is so, 10 seconds per move per mage is way longer than it's taking during end-turn-resolve phase?