Scheldt '44 - Realism versus Playability?

[lezgo killemall]

  In reality, Cdrs don't get replays before deciding what to do. 

But of course commanders don't need replays because, unlike in the game, they actually lived through and experienced the events the first time. 

I don't watch replays simply because they take up too much time, but I can't see how watching them could be considered "unfair" or "unrealistic"?

I don't watch replays either but that's only because I hotseat against myself and have already lived thru the horror.  But if I were still pbem i would always watch.