Well “back in my day”, growing up as a teen/young-adult in the 1980s, we didn’t have much in the way of computer games. Back then every game was a board game of some type for the most part, and while I did play extensively the more “grognard” hard-core board wargames like just about everything from Avalon Hill and SPI, and Axis and Allies was just another game I got into in my youth which was simpler to play with my friends. There was always something “beer and pretzels” about Axis and Allies back in the 1980s that to this day still attracts me to the game. I’ve recollected (is that a word) and customized my current 2nd-Edition version of the game, and spent quite a bit on extra units, printed game-boards and the like… all with few people to play against, but it’s part game, part collectible, and its fun either way.
Axis and Allies music: what songs do you listen to while playing the game?
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My buddies and I have created a number of playlists to listen to while playing Axis & Allies. We’ve found the harder-edged the music is, the more aggressive the attacks are in the early-going. Here are some of my favorite tracks to kick off the game:
Axis and Allies by Fishhammer
Icky Thump by the White Stripes
Bulls On Parade by Rage Against the Machine
Cochise by Audioslave -
The first one is appropriate - though not along the lines of the hardcore that you’ve listed. I had the 45 inch vinyl when I was kid, played the hell out of it. :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KecIdlEAKhU
And here’s another:
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This may be a bit too classical compared with the music you’ve listed, but for the German invasion of Russia, I recommend the first movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 (the Leningrad Symphony). It starts out quietly, then switches to a march representing the German invasion, then explodes into a musical battle sequence that always makes me think of the massive armoured clash at Kursk (even though the symphony was composed a couple of years earlier, in 1941).
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If we’d use music in our games, and if i had my way, some of my choices would be:
(as opener)
Laibach - Drzava
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRADA7fLVpQFront 242 - Commando Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12aKfNsUdQY&feature=related(USA entering the war full of hope)
Wumpscutt - Total Recall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSvSVMvwMI
(which is indeed a cover of the Total Recall theme song)(drama rising - big battle ahead)
Turbund Sturmwerk - Kainsmal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fu4hbnK4A(getting aggressive)
NON - Total War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3aeWHz6Zok…and concluding the game:
The Klinik - World Domination
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTD6Mot7v1g -
Rock and Roll. And just about anything else… although, no rap or country.
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Metal!
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