Fife and drum

[BeeSting]

Where are the fife and for Pete sakes proper marching drum beat?

[Mailman653]

Drums and trumpets are there, fife, maybe, pipes, who knows.

[Dayve]

All i've heard on mine is the same continuous drum beat, the one you hear when the soldiers march, and only ever the trumpet when you order a charge.

I'm really hoping some of the other instruments will be added in the full game, i want to see my soldiers advance to the kind of tunes you heard in the Patriot. It may have been a-historical in almost every other way, but at least the battle music and drum beats were spot on.

[Polemists]

I found the music good, not sure but I am sure there will be other sound and music beats in the full game, this is only 2gigs, full game is 15gigs.

Not sure if your larger units will have a drum, or fife or whatever, we shall see.

[Phog_of_War]

I would like to see a fife and drum corps be a trainable unit.

I believe that in reality the men and young boys that formed those corps we highly trained. I imagine you'd have to be in order to keep a good marching beat, what with artillery exploding, bullets snapping by your head, and the general confusion of battle.

Standard bearers could be trained up the same way. I'd love to see individual standard bearers in each unit rather than the giant flags we have now. (yes i know i can shut them off in options)

[Sir Beane]

I would like to see a fife and drum corps be a trainable unit.

I believe that in reality the men and young boys that formed those corps we highly trained. I imagine you'd have to be in order to keep a good marching beat, what with artillery exploding, bullets snapping by your head, and the general confusion of battle.

Standard bearers could be trained up the same way. I'd love to see individual standard bearers in each unit rather than the giant flags we have now. (yes i know i can shut them off in options)

There is definitely a flag bearer for each individual unit in addition to the giant flags.

I thought that musicians would indeed be a seperate trainable unit, and they may still be. We probably won't find out until the actual game.