Its one of the graphics settings that turns it on/off. Forgot which one, but I think it might be shader or unit details.
At least I remember when I once fooled around with the medieval2.preferences.cfg and set shader = 1 to shader = 0 (an actually invalid option), my units started showing blood splatters. Might have been another setting though, its been way back during 1.0 times.
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