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Starting a new thread for music/sounds as requested by PyleDriver. I would like to hear Al Stewart's "Road to Berlin" as part of the opening sequence to THE GAME. But with copyright law and the mess called public domain I seriously doubt that this wish will materialize. Anyway after I watch the opening sequence the first time I turn off the all of the sounds anyway and turn on my own music. If it will speed up the release of of this gem I think that the sounds package could be offered as a downloadable mod pack with the first patch...

some Pink Floyd works good with the game (when the Tigers broke free is good mood setting)

  I like Mozart's "Introitus" as it just feels like a good fit.
 
 
Trey

Yeah, I agree with Pink Floyd. Dogs of War would do nicely as well

I like the unobtrusive usage of civil war themes in WbtS music and would prefer something similiar discreet for WitE.

"Metal, metal, metal is all that I need!" (Sabaton - "Metalizer")

I love heavy metal music and I love Sabaton, a Swedish metal band whose lyrics are mostly about war.

I will give it try Ester

LOL, like the names of the songs at least !!!!

Still think my Avatar would of been better, if Andy would of finished it off

In my opinion some songs suitable to play as Soviet are "Panzerkampf" and "40:1", and to play as German are "Ghost division" and "Talvisota".

My screensaver at my workplace is taken from the song "Talvisota": "Rise, nation's pride, hold what's yours, strike'em where it hurts! Fight, hold your ground, winter war, reinforce the line!"

interesting, think it will grow on me

think this will be good work music for me, when I am swinging my Sledge hammer and the part don't want to move !

(my first Hammer I made at work, I named Mjollnir, 16 pound sledge on a mallet shaft, the eng's seen it, they came over to tell me, it wouldn't be of any use, as I couldn't swing it, I showed them they were wrong (a very good friend of mine, his GF, was a blacksmith ( thinking spare time) and she used something like that too)

so far, like Art of War

(don't know though, feel like I should be swinging a sword then plotting to attack a river line



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Another good song, to be played when forced to retreat or a big hole is blown in the line, is the Beatles helter skelter.

This is probably the last place on Earth where I expected someone mentioning Sabaton, not to mention having a positive feeling when it comes to Sabaton's music.

Although their stage presence/show gets old after you've seen it a few times, the music's nice.

Whatever music is ultimately put into the game, hopefully the developers will be nice and allow players to turn it off for good. For some people, silence can be golden. [:)]

I am liking it

thanks Ester

ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge

some Pink Floyd works good with the game (when the Tigers broke free is good mood setting)

I agree, Floyd would go good.

I was almost going to suggest Gunner's Dream (one of the coolest tunes ever) but i guess that really is more of a western front song.

P.S. Agreed; When the Tigers broke free is also a killer tune.

Philistines

You should be listening to Shostakovich's 7th, written inside Leningrad during the siege. That will help you capture the grim determination which was the Russian psyche during the war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._7_%28Shostakovich%29

Heavy metal for wargaming? Blech.
 
I'm partial to classical for my ironmongering. Tchaikovsky gets me in the proper mood for some East Front gaming, nothing like the 1812 overture to get the blood flowing when I play the red hordes...
 
 

Actually the more that I think of it, WitE should have the entire 7th Symphony by Shostakovich. Its 70 minutes long, which is plenty of time for a game's musical score. Its public domain, its about world war II and it was written (partially) in Leningrad and played a major part in the Soviet's propaganda campaign. Its a perfect fit.

Pink Floyd et al for an Eastern front game set in the 1940s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLi_m656tQQ
English translation pre Stalin deletion.: http://folk.ntnu.no/makarov/temporary_u ... 943-en.mp3

"Pink Floyd et al for an Eastern front game set in the 1940s? "
it was a very surrealistic time[:D]

As your tanks rush through a breach in the enemy lines, Dvorak's 9th New World Symphony. High energy music for that grease the treads blitz deep into the enemies rear area.

Alternatively for those brief moments with the Finns, Sibelius's Finlandia.