Battle Speeches?

[Lord Chu]

I played a campaign with Russia and didn't receive any speeches...I used to enjoy the fact that my generals gave speeches. I think it adds to the atmosphere of the game. Of course the speech isn't vital, it's just an extra bonus.

[Grombeard]

I mainly listen to the speeches when i have a difficult/impossible battle to come (defending a city with few militias against 1-2 full stacks and such) to push me up a little and get that "heroic feeling" to fight til death and take as much enemies as possible with me! ;)

So i use them for pretty much the same purpose that these speeches were for in reality i think... ;)