Loreena McKennitt

**vartan** · 03-22-2010, 18:49

Originally Posted by Julianus

...with a war cry

Reminded me of barbarians.

**Hax** · 03-22-2010, 20:40

Loreena McKennitt does not recreate ancient Celtic music. It's not even remotely Celtic. Bagpipes, harps, tin whistles, bodhráns and such things were not in use at all around 250 BC in western Europe.

**jabarto** · 03-23-2010, 07:21

Originally Posted by Hax

Loreena McKennitt does not recreate ancient Celtic music. It's not even remotely Celtic. Bagpipes, harps, tin whistles, bodhráns and such things were not in use at all around 250 BC in western Europe.

A little off topic here, but I'm curious, and from what I've seen of you in the frontroom I think you would know; do you know anyone who *does* do actual Celtic music? I know McKennitt and her like are more New Age than Celtic, and I like that, but I would like to know more about traditional folk music too.

Oh, and a general question to the devs; is there any chance of seeing more of Nick Wylie and Morgan Casey's music in EBII? I'm guessing not, but I really like their work, so one can hope.

**Julianus** · 03-23-2010, 01:53

Originally Posted by vartan

Reminded me of barbarians.

Not only the barbarians had war cries...
There're many instances in Livy's History of Rome where Roman battle cries got mentioned.
And I believe there was some kind of a custom of battle cry competition before the battle is joined. Once the Romans losed this competition, hence their enemy discovered, and the Romans themselves knew that they were less eager to fight than their enemy this time, which was a rare thing of couse, which demoralized the Romans while encouraged their enemy and the battle was doomed for Romans.

**Cute Wolf** · 03-23-2010, 05:20

warcry give the hardcoded 10 bonus to attack and 5 bonus to morale for 30 seconds....

So tell me, did you suggest the Romans have "warcry" available and not including testudo?

**Julianus** · 03-23-2010, 07:38

Originally Posted by Cute Wolf

warcry give the hardcoded 10 bonus to attack and 5 bonus to morale for 30 seconds....

So tell me, did you suggest the Romans have "warcry" available and not including testudo?

No, actually, I was just talking about my expectations of better battlefield atmosphere...

**vartan** · 03-23-2010, 18:20

Originally Posted by Julianus

No, actually, I was just talking about my expectations of better battlefield atmosphere...

Press F for War Cry. Press Alt-F4 for Roman Cry Baby. Darn I can't do a Cute Wolf impression! Vanilla is the most accurate game known to mankind, and thus only Gauls, Brits, and the lot have War Cry.

**Hax** · 03-24-2010, 02:07

A little off topic here, but I'm curious, and from what I've seen of you in the frontroom I think you would know; do you know anyone who *does* do actual Celtic music? I know McKennitt and her like are more New Age than Celtic, and I like that, but I would like to know more about traditional folk music too.

This is difficult. Real Celtic music is difficult to reconstruct because I don't think there's a lot of information on what kind of musical instruments they used and probably even less about the way they played. We know a lot more about medieval music, though.