Although I have a soft spot for turn-based games going back to the X-COM games from the 90's, et al, this is the single single biggest argument for real-time-with-pause there is in my opinion. You basically CAN'T have large battles in turn-based, it just doesn't work.
You can. It's a matter of implementation (encounter / campaign design, plus speed of animations, etc.).
Though naturally, a TB game FULL of large scale battles is another matter. I wouldn't want to play through Wrath Of The Righteous TB exclusively (there's way too much combat for TB anyway), though individually, playing the tavern siege in the early game felt kind of "epic" in TB, in PARTS because it wasn't over then in a blink of the eye (to exaggerate). Speaking about which, Wrath allows you to speed up combat/movement animations by pressing a key.
