Music to die by.

[Dathmir]

Does anyone else listen to loud music while they slaughter the ememy?
My personal favourite is The 1812 Overture.

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[candidgamera]

How about "Siegfried's Funeral" or Carmina Burana's "O Fortuna" Both on one of the best
soundtracks never made: that to John Boorman's movie Excalibur.

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"If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented.
The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make
plans against it." Sun Tzu

[Minagawa Daimon]

i guess its also called "ride of the valkyries"

[Lord X]

I don't dare do that yet. I'm just learning to manuver my forces well. It would really suck to have great slaughter and mayhem music play while MY men were butchered!

[solypsist]

actually it's pretty easy to simply replace the Mp3 files located in the sound file wiht your own. Just rename and switch out your own file with the required filename.For instance, I used to have Homer Simpson say, "Doh!" when my general would turn and flee. You can also do it with the background music files, but you might get a bit tired of listening to Smoke on the Water every battle, triggered when the enemy charges you.


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[ShaiHulud]

I downloaded about 3 hours of Japanese traditional music, shakuhachi and instrumental folk music. I listen to that while playing. Great mood stuff!

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fells steel,yet bamboo bends and drinks

[Stazbumpa]

Quote Originally posted by candidgamera:
How about "Siegfried's Funeral" or Carmina Burana's "O Fortuna" Both on one of the best
soundtracks never made: that to John Boorman's movie Excalibur.
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Wasn't Carmina Burana the actual name of the composition? If memory serves me correct it was written by a guy called Karl Orff.
I may be wrong.

The tracks I listen to while playing delve into techno territory. My current fave (actually its been my fave since I heard it in the mid 90's) is New Order "Confusion", the Pump Panel Reconstruction mix to be precise.
If you are confused (no pun intended), check out the start of the movie Blade. Its the track playing in the abbatoir/nightclub.

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[Anssi Hakkinen]

Yeah, Carmina Burana is the composition, O Fortuna the best-known part thereof, and the whole thing is by a person named Carl Orff.

STW has exceptionally good sound effects, but IMO it also has exceptionally good music - just too little of it. There are only three "battle" tracks, one of which is not even played (but you can listen to it in (yourSTWdirectory)\Sounds\Music\Battle3.wav - it's very good). I like them all, and I've not changed them so far, even though Battle1 is starting to get really old (I hate the intro, it sounds like someone is rubbing a kettle with dry grass).

I've toyed many times with the idea of replacing the original music with some pompous heavy, but have yet to get around to doing it. (Besides, I'm more into chanson lately... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif)

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- Tsukuhara Bokuden

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[Dark Phoenix]

There is a guide over at Shogun Stratgys about changing the music in the strategy section. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

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[Catiline]

The best music the game has produced is the music that came iwth the demo. I've swapped the main menu music for that version. It's a long piece, but having learnt to play the game with that everytime i hear it it brings back how good it was that first time.

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[TosaInu]

Hello ShaiHulud,

Where did you download it? I'm interested.
Thanks in advance.

Ja mata
Toda MizuTosaInu

[ShaiHulud]

Tosa.... From Napster. I searched for "Shakuhachi" as the title. Good luck and hurry before Napster shuts down!

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Wind fells blossoms, rain
fells steel,yet bamboo bends and drinks

[candidgamera]

Stazbumpa, Anssi:

So as not to be crucified for going off topic, will post some more over on off-topic, but . . .
There is something humorous, ironic, and appropriate about the background of Carmina Burana to our little world and gaming in general, ''O Fortuna'" especially - - Not just the music, but lyrics too (Carl Orff adapted his work from something much earlier, choral work is done in Latin):

O Fortuna
(Soldier of Fortune)

"O Fortune, most contrary,
Of changing never chary,
Now small, now great,
Appears your state;
Just like the moon you vary.

The life your servants suffer
Makes wits grow sharper, tougher,
Through games of chance
Which much enhance
Both easy times and rougher.

Lo, penury or power
May greet us any hour:
Your wheel revolves
And all dissolves
Like ice beneath a shower.

O Lady Luck, alluring
But faithless in securing
The wealth we prize,
From me likewise
You hide, your face obscuring.

I've bet my shirt and lost,
My hopes of bliss are crossed;
And, lose or gain,
I still remain
Hard up - but hang the cost!

My pounding pulses crave
One smile for me, your slave . . .
Friends, keep with me
And weep with me:
She favors not the brave.

From: The Goliard Poets, Medieval Latin Songs and Satires, with verse translation, George F. Whicher, New Directions Paperback, 1949, p. 263.

In song, and in jest http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif,
candidgamera


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"If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented.
The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make
plans against it." Sun Tzu

[Iron_Chef_Morimoto]

I prefer Slayer's "Angel of Death"

".... forced in
like cattle you run
stripped of
your life's worth
human mice
for The Angel of Death
four hundred thousand more to die...."

[Iron_Chef_Morimoto]

also the iron chef theme song is nice too

[EuroSan]

"The Battle" from Gladiator 10 minutes long theme with the great music from the battle in the beggining...... http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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May the honour be with you all..........EuroSan the reborned spirit of LinkSan

[Tone]

I'm with you Catiline, after the demo I was a bit disappointed in the game music and quickly swapped it around.