Changing the Counter from Turns to Years

This is quite easy to do:

1. Go to the "Medieval II Total War/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign" folder.
2. Right click on the file "desc_strat.txt", select properties and uncheck the read-only box.
3. Open the desc_strat.txt file in notepad.
4. Delete the following line: 'show_date_as_turns'

Also See:

Changing the Number of Years per Turn