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    Default Non-Catholics get no or fewer General`s speeches

    What do u think about the general`s speeches?
    I find them very good except maybe for the fact that they r a bit lengthy

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    Haven't heard any yet... I was wondering if they were in game at all...

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    me too, they aren't in my game i think :S
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    You have to wait during the battle setup. When the cam is panning sideways it the zooms down to the general and delivers the speech. Some factions, though, doesn´t have speeches. I´, currently playing the Turks and no speeches for well over 200 turns and many more battles.

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    Text is good, but the intonation and energy they put in them is quite underwhelming.
    Half of the time, they sound like they are talking to the guy beside them, not to a whole battlefield army.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Akka
    Text is good, but the intonation and energy they put in them is quite underwhelming.
    Half of the time, they sound like they are talking to the guy beside them, not to a whole battlefield army.

    Yeah, this is true.

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    FYI, the length of a general's speech is tied into the size of the battle being fought: a small engagement, and he won't say much beyond a one-liner quip to motivate his men.

    I also have the suspicion - and it's no more than this - that not all the accents have a full set of speech elements in the published game. They were written, but not necessarily recorded thanks to time constraints and the need to get everything to fit on a single disk. You should find that the major western European factions' generals will say more than anyone else's leaders.

    BTW, most of the speeches attributed to mad generals are actually the result of too much drinking on his part. You'll recognise the mad generals and the potty-mouthed generals when you hear them, oh yes.
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    I have to say - I'm loving the speeched so far! I've been rolling around in laughter at the speeches from heavily dreaded generals who are good speakers and like a drink
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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Fishpants
    FYI, the length of a general's speech is tied into the size of the battle being fought: a small engagement, and he won't say much beyond a one-liner quip to motivate his men.

    I :
    So is that true for non-English versions of the game too? Or is it like SirRethcir says, that only the Germans in the German version have longer und funner speeches? Good job btw. Captain.....
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    Since smoking hashish was very popular in the middle-east during the Middle-ages it would be a little amusing if you could get stoners as generals rather than drunkards.
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    I've seen a lot of short ones, many mid sized ones, and a few long ones from the Byzantine generals. However, nothing so far has compared to the morose general from RTW who "didn't want to be here myself, but my mother said I'd better make a reasonable showing of it all, so here we go."
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    I have had one instance of my English general (before attaking Antioch as part of a crusade) announced that the attack should be "lead by the green pixies and pink fairies"...

    I am going to have to keep a closer eye on him...

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    Are there speeches? I have the German version, maybe they weren't translated... haven't heard any speech yet. (Played Scots, Russians and English.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob the Insane
    I have had one instance of my English general (before attaking Antioch as part of a crusade) announced that the attack should be "lead by the green pixies and pink fairies"...

    I am going to have to keep a closer eye on him...
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