Do you want to slow it down to manage things easier or just to watch battles play out slower? For managements, you can just reduce resource rate, research, etc to prevent being overwhelmed and then just speed it up when you have a handle on things.
For viewing stuff like combat slower, I don't think you can within the constraints of the game (unless some modder has a way to slow down animations and whatnot).
i want to slow down the entire game - including movement resources weapons fire everything - id like to be able to slow down to - 8
i don't think it would require much in the way of game programming just a change in the options so you can go negative as well as increasing it to positive
Supreme commander 2 is even worse .
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Its a terrible game - i hated it so much i dont even want to bother going on a rant
Supreme commander 2 is even worse .
What the OP probably wants is more time to micro his units, Like with the 1/2 speed button in Anno. No idea if that is possible with just modding a few gamefiles, though. You could double the hull/shield related stats of all ships to make combat slower, but that wouldn't quite be the same I guess.
No no 
- i just want more time to enjoy the battles
Except you can't slow the game slower than 1x speed, which I think is what the OP is requesting.
Yup
I spend allot of the game paused as well - I like to "take care of things" - all comands and such when the game is paused and the rest if the i spend zoomed in
