'Deranged' general Pre battle speeches.

[Zoltan]

This calls for a question: are speeches moddable??

By speeches I mean both the voices, and the triggers that make them possible. ie, can I record a speech and link it to a trait/faction?

That bit was hilarious, but there's still more fun to be had along those lines.

[Captain Fishpants]

This calls for a question: are speeches moddable??

By speeches I mean both the voices, and the triggers that make them possible. ie, can I record a speech and link it to a trait/faction?

That bit was hilarious, but there's still more fun to be had along those lines.

Moddable? It depends, but I doubt you can change all of it. Other than designing the original RTW system and providing the text, I have no idea how the coder actually implemented the detail - I'm quite a trusting soul, really.

The speeches are actually built on the fly before each battle by selecting from a range of elements - this needed quite careful "construction work" in the text to make sure that there was a flow to what the general was saying and not too many jarring discontinuities.

The speech element triggers are tied to the state of both armies, the size of the battle (unit count), the terrain, the strategic situation, the general's traits and so forth. As far as I know the triggers and selection routine isn't driven by a "public" data file. The system is much the same as the one done for RTW, but with quite significant functional tweaks.

However, you should be able to record new speeches and give them the same names as the existing .mp3s. Of course, you'd end up with a slightly comedic effect as the voice changes between speech chunks, so you'd have to do the whole thing to make the mod seamless. Lots of work, that. Lots. And besides, I think the actors did a rather good job on M2TW.

[sapi]

Now we just need a few cynical, self-aware generals talking about how they're going to get stuck on a cliff in mountainous maps and ordering their men to jump off and create a ramp down to spice things up :D