crappy battle speeches

[Doug-Thompson]

Why do the non-roman factions always only have like 2 lines in their battle speeches? I loved the roman speeches before the battles....some of my generals would go on for like 5 minutes....but the other factions seem to just have 2 or 3 lines.

any explanation?

"To brave men, a few words are as good as many" -- a RTW quote.

Seriously, I don't know. I was really worried about the Parthians though. It seemed like every speech was a fatalistic warning of doom.

Then I realized: The speeches are tied to combat odds. If you're heavily outnumbered, you're more likely to get a speech telling the soldiers to do their duty before dying.

Never mind that you're a few horse archers who are just about to massacre several hundred peasants.