Music

[Philippe]

I haven't bought the game yet, but it was a great joy to play the demo and hear many of my old favorites. I quickly found myself humming along, getting nostalgic for all those battles of Waterloo I used to play in the Battleground series.

One thing worries me, though. If you play as the Russians, Prussians, or Austrians, will you hear national music or French music?

The designers of the game and many in their audience will always want to play the French side, so the preponderance of French military music is only natural. (Truth in advertising: my screen name is really my name, so I have similar tendencies).

But some of us will suddenly develop a Kaiserlich und Koeniglich mindset and want that full Austro-Hungarian experience (or Prussian, Russian, or British).

Does the game accomodate that, or can it be made to in a future release?

Even the HPS Napoleonic games let you hear Under the Dopel-Adler when playing the Austrians (about a hundred years too early!), or stirring Imperial Russian regimental marches, some of which were still in use early in the 20th century, or my perrenial favorite, the Hohenfriedberger for the Prussians (which appears in the film Barry Lyndon).

I'm still in awe of the period music that was released with Europa Universalis II, and I wonder if Ageod couldn't produce something to rival that? What it has now is really, really good. But with a fuller range of national music (that only played when a particular side was moving), it could be truly great.

I only mention it because one thing that's clear about the games in this series is that the pursuit of excellence is something that seems to matter to this company.

[Pocus]

Musics are not contextual to the nation played, sorry... Perhaps for another iteration of the game?

But battle voices are. You can hear Austrian shouts to form a square, if their infantries are doing that, or French charging 'For The Empereur', en Français dans le texte.