Guidelines to winning CM battles

[ATCS]

mainly because of the timer......there's just never enough time....

I've often wondered about this aspect of my favorite game. The majority of battles (in my experience) in CM are of the 20-35 minute variety. I've often wondered how this compares to an actual meeting engagement type clash between say, an inf company combined with a platoon or two of tanks (~ 1000-1500 pt QB, right?). Instead of less than an hour, wouldn't it seem appropriate for a battle of this nature to last an hour or more? Is this just part of the abstraction of CM?