I have long wondered at the relative lack of speeches in BI.
Initially it looked great with the speeches feeling new and more varied than before, if somewhat short.

Then at some point it dawned upon me that in fact there was only the intro and ending. All the fillers, those which inculded little tactical clues or political clues and various interesting flavours. The parts that made the speeches interesting.
Now every speech is the same, that includes the captains' speeches. Before captains had the intro and end only now it is the same for all. That is sad as the speeches was somethign that I actually looked forward to if I had an interesting general, they could be highly amusing and at times quite long. Now I just click past them.

So I wonder is this a deliberate feature or did something go wrong?
I can understand that certain aspects would not be easily carried over, such as mentioning the factions by name, but a lot certain could.