Drum and Fife Mod by Hollowfaith aka Caligula

[Hunterbear]

Excellent work hollowfaith!

I'd rep you if I could (+rep)

Looking forward to further releases, really makes the battlefield livelier!

[Thorn]

No. Not without modding tools at least.

Oh

CA should release modding tools sooner at least to give us a chance to fix his broken game, i dont want to wait months to start enjoying the game...

[IndoPruss]

Would you mind to include Prussens Gloria? It's one of the great Prussian March. You could also add:

-Badenweiler March
-Prinz Eugen March
-Grenadier Guards March
-Koniggratz March

[hollowfaith]

@hunterbear - Thanks for the compliment! I'm glad you enjoy it!

@IndoPruss - I already have Prussens Gloria on my list of requests.

I'll be away from the mod for a few weeks as I'm going to be traveling with my brothers band as a stand in for his keyboardist, who somehow shot himself in the foot and can't stand for great lengths LOL! Just giving the heads up and to tell everyone not to worry, the mod is still alive and well.

[Hellfromthepast]

Great mod, can't wait for the updates. Good luck on the tour!

[rman114]

If i use the generic drum patch, do the drums play for all nations?

If i use the generic drum patch does that mean i can't use the other nation specific patches?

Thanks for your work!

[BritPatriot1815]

Hi BritPatriot1815

I just need to do Spain, Austria, Russia, Maratha, and United Provinces. Then each faction will have one song. I would say maybe a month or two at the most to complete those five last factions. Then I have a lot of requests I would like to do, and then finish up some of my SFX improvements.Though I might just not do that as there are a lot of sfx improvement mods out already. Hope some that helps you!

i know it's a late reply but yeah that helps great job on the British Grenadiers & French march by the way, i'm guessing that the Russian march is the Preobrazensky march is it? Keep it up though

[ONI NavSpecWar]

Add Minstrel Boy on Bagpipes for Ireland or if you can find a more battle-sounding song use that

[Franky235]

hey Caligula
i love youre work its really great!
i have a question
can we use youre prussian music for our mod?
you know the prussia realistic uniform
i hope we can use them
we would add you to our creditlist =)

greets Franky

[Horgo Splendis]

Excellent work sir, it really adds to the atmosphere of the game. Thank you for sharing your talent.

[Condottiere SOG]

When is this going to be compiled into one mod?

[Hellfromthepast]

@ ONI NavSpecWar: I too would love to see the Minstrel boy done, although I wouldn't want pipes, I would like to see it done with fife and drum more then anything. That way It could also be used for any Civil War mods made in the future.

[Altheman]

Thank you! Does anyone know when the mods will be compiled in to 1 nation-specific file?

[Rsty Bloodnok]

Right.

Firstly I would like to congratulate, He of Hollow faith of his wonderful modification.

This being my first taste of a modifying experience I can say that I am delighted.

I have, as being naturally curious that I am, decided to mix the music that you have used here with some of the other music that was used for the MedII tot war mod, FKOK (For King Or Country). I would recommend some of this music especially, that of which is of the correct period in the campaign maps to alleviate the laddering horror that is the repetition of the same 5 bars of Irish pipe music and another of Gregorian chanting. No matter how much I am a lover of classical music, repetitions do get beyond a joke.

I have also being trying to make a small adjustment by making a regimental band unit that is of 12 units in size consisting of 10 drummers, 1 fife player a standard bearer and a regimental captain. I have been thinking that this would make a worthy improvement for the drumming (it is unlikely that any one solitary man would be able to make the entire band of the British Grenadiers or the York Fusiliers march on his own (and I do not think that the army employed 1 man bands).

If you would like it, I would be happy to send you them, although they are still lacking in willingness to share the 'personality' of a drummer, nomatter how much I have tweaked them.

Keep up the Good work, And I will be looking forward to when the modding tools will enable the creation of faction specific music, (I tried and failed as well, typical isn't it! LOL).

[monsta]

Hi,

could you please tell me where I can download this one:

A small poor quality clip of my sound mod in action!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XapFNCYvNGQ

By the way, amazing work.
I hated the atmosphere of the battles in vanilla.

Greetings from Austria!
monsta

[rman114]

I really appreciate the time spent on this mod, however i'll give my opinion why i didn't like it.

-All factions will play music so if i have yankee doodle pack my american troops will play it but my british counterpart will play it as well.
-Each unit will play the music when marched...so if one unit is marched it sound great. However if you have 10 units moving at different times you have the music tracks all play at once at different points in the music so if a lot of units are manouvering it sounds like a musical mess.

I personally prefer the drum pack since drums aren't ever really faction specific and for the most part all used drums for marching. I wasn't a big fan of the drums used but that's just me.

Again thanks so much for your hard work though and if other versions of the drum pack are released i'd love to try it out!

[Pasquale The Crusader]

Ok, so my first post and I'm new to modding for Empire! I don't want to muck around with my game too much by having a go myself, so I decided to be safe and ask.

Correct procedure for installing these mods?

[ramses12]

A question:

it is possible to make a macro or bind function-keys to load the faction marches?

for example bind the key F2 for prussian marches, F3 for poland marches and so one

This would be cool! and would help until CA release a mod kit

[Davius]

Does this mod work with the new patch?

[Rsty Bloodnok]

Yes, it should be. Try it!