pre battle speeches

[Megas12345]

is there a way to unlock the long prebattle speeches again?

[Taiji]

Go to C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\DLV_ext\data
Open descr_sounds_dlb
delete the faction you are playing under the oneliners, save and exit
Go to C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\DLV_ext\data\sounds
and delete event.dat, event.idx

Start up the game and u will have long pre-speeches back

That should work.

[Megas12345]

thanks, and just a question, why was it changed? due to having so many factions not proper speeches for some?

[Taiji]

Multiple language versions covered and only some of them where CA bothered to do the work. At least that's my guess.