 Nashville  | 05 Aug 2016 5:16 p.m. PST |
During a recent FPW wargame we got so into the thing that one fellow started singing the French national anthem and what we thought was the Prussian anthem. It was fun but it turns out that Deutschland Uber Alles only dates from 1922 ( derives from an earlier Austrian version) Well, here is the actual Prussian version.
YouTube link
there was ALSO an unofficial little tune: YouTube link But THIS will always be the best:
YouTube link and a close second, albeit not for FPW games: YouTube link Which raises the question : Apart from the Grateful Dead or the Beatles, do you play appropriate music during a game?? |
| Nashville | 05 Aug 2016 5:24 p.m. PST |
BUT the BEST dueling anthems is -- well -- watch this : YouTube link |
| Dynaman8789 | 05 Aug 2016 5:50 p.m. PST |
I do not play any music during a game, for some reason it always leads to long discussions about Monty Python. |
| tberry7403 | 05 Aug 2016 7:27 p.m. PST |
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| rmaker | 05 Aug 2016 8:24 p.m. PST |
The first item (Heil dir im Siegerkranz) was the Prussian ROYAL anthem, not the national anthem. Only applicable when the King (or possibly some other member of the royal family) was present. There evidently was no Prussian national anthem. |
| robert piepenbrink | 05 Aug 2016 8:25 p.m. PST |
For every war and every army there is something--though I tend to play it on the way to the convention these days. But I'll tell you the two I can't find. There is an account of POWs in 1944-45 in Germany singing "Come and Save Us, Georgie Patton" but I've never heard it. Nor have I ever heard the Paean as the Athenians would have sung it before Marathon and Salamis. Can anyone supply the deficiencies? |
| Shagnasty | 05 Aug 2016 8:45 p.m. PST |
I'd like to have a recording of a male chorus singing "A Mighty Fortress Is My God" in Swedish and/or German to start off TYW games. Couldn't find one at my local religious store. |
| advocate | 05 Aug 2016 11:19 p.m. PST |
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| Zargon | 06 Aug 2016 9:24 a.m. PST |
Oh Jerusalem! That gets the opponents rattled.
And I've shouted, Whoa Mohammed! When the paras charge. |
| The big e | 06 Aug 2016 9:50 a.m. PST |
Shagnasty….Youtube has a bunch sung in German….look for Ein feste Burg ist mein Gott. :) |
 piper909 | 06 Aug 2016 11:55 a.m. PST |
I love period music and any chance to play some for background accompaniment to a wargame is eagerly seized upon. Since I have a lot of periods of interest, my CD and vinyl collection (dating back decades) contains all sorts of exotic stuff, from Ancient Greece and Rome up to the 1940s. Folk music, world music, military music of many nations, Zulu songs, Middle Eastern, sitars, bagpipes, Napoleonic French marches, Jacobite ballads, fifes and drums, kabuki music, classical…. Soundtrack albums are also primary resources, if only for mood setting (some do contain period music, everything from military marches to jazz club standards, and usually in good performances). I've got about a dozen CD compilations for WWII alone, all nations, primarily non-vocal (band music, orchestral music, jazz, marches), culled from among my music library. |
| Grelber | 06 Aug 2016 2:49 p.m. PST |
I collected CDs to go with many of my units, but over the past 6-7 years I seem to have forgotten to buy more. Of course, a lot of my time has been spent painting Vikings the past few years, and I already have the one Viking CD available here. Grelber |
| Henry Martini | 08 Aug 2016 4:21 p.m. PST |
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