Regarding voices for generals and campaign map characters

[zarker]

here's another geeky observation :)

one of the barbarian voices in RTW I'd swear was Gimli from the BBC radio series of LOTR.

Also, from the same series is one of Frodo's pestering Orcs appearing as a voice in MTW2

(coughs) sorry - as you were :D

[Ciaran]

What´s a lot worse, only the English version seems to have full pre-battle speeches for every faction, or at least the ones initially available, in localized versions only the faction representing that country (the HRE i the case of Germany) seem to get a proper pre-battle speech, the others get a one-line comment. That is a cheapskate