A mod made with the help of zeltop. Faster combat multiplies animation delays by a float. This float is 0 by default and will make combat animations almost instant, greatly speeding up combat. It is found in settings.gd. You can even lengthen the animations if you want to waste more time.

To install just move into the game folder in %appdata%. .ini and .gd files from the mod should be in %appdata%/Strive for Power 2/mods/fasterCombat. Then just enable it through the ingame mod manager and restart the game.

Feel free to copy/improve it into your own mod, I'm unlikely to maintain it in the future.

Download

mod_config.ini
update the two lines at the end to the following for compatability with 6.6

combat_animation="removeDelay.gd"
core_animations="removeGFX.gd"

I still don't know why this hasn't been added to the game as a standard option. This is the one mod I would say the game is outright unplayable without.