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During painting I'll throw the iPod on shuffle. Any music is fine. Stuff with interesting sounds/long instrumental-type sections is good..Above and Beyond for trance, stuff like Isis for rock.

During gametime if I'm playing with my buddies we enjoy some metal to get pumped..Iron Maiden has lots of epic sounding tracks that supplement our games. In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Children of Bodom, etc are good too.

The GW near to me plays lots of war music- from BraveHeart, Last of the Mohicans, and so on.

I almost always have music during my game. It's mostly soundtracks (Conan, Starship Troopers), but I also listen to alot of Bolt Thrower.

Whenever your opponent loses an important hguy, you should play "another one bites the dust" by queen. Other than that, I'd recommend listening to Amon Amarth, Lamb of God, anything heavy, really.


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Oh yeah, and bolt thrower (as others have said before me). Made for 40k.

Jon Touchdown wrote:A good friend of mine and myself game alot and as a result we are usually waiting for long turns to conclude due to both of us playing horde armies. We have taken up the idea of starting to play some music during games. Im thinking Metallica, ManOWar, ect.
My question to my fellow members of dakka is. Do you yourself do this???

Roger that! In our game club of some 5/6 players i often find that I'm watching a game not playing one.
As a result i always like to have some kinda film on in the back ground for something to break up the atmosphere. It can be quite dull just watching games i think. I find that films with lots of screaming, explosions & bloodshed are best.
I have also had drum & bass on a few times.

Wow lots of people listen to music! Im pleased with the feedback. My victory song would be King of Kings by ManOWar!!!

I brought my Sirius XM receiver and donated it to my FLGS. We usually have the classic rock or Alt Rock station going, and if theres nothing on, we turn on the TV and watch a sports game or a movie. Thankfully none of us seem to be heavy metal guys, which is fine by me, never been much of a fan.

When painting I like to just sit in the backyard and put the zune on shuffle and turn on the noise cancellation on my 'phones. A car could run through my back yard and I wouldn't hear it.

I've got a playlist, but it's down low, just for background noise. I need every remianing brain cell I have to bang together to think tactically lol trying to listen to music would over-load the system and bad things would happen.


"Ok, so I'm assaulting your tactical squad over there. What's their initiative?"

"Lint polkas drive cosmic vibrations cheese of seventy airfoils with lesser tensil focus."

"What the hell man? Are you on drugs? Damn it! It's the music again, let me turn that down."

"Where the hell am I? How the hell did my tactical squad get assaulted!? Where are my pants?"

Soundtracks. I have a large soundtrack collection, most recent purchases being the new Transformers and Star Trek soundtracks, with BSG Season 4 arriving in a few weeks, and we play them endlessly.

In my new place I finally have a sound system that can do MP3 as well, so I can either plug my MP3 player directly in, or burn a million MP3's to a DVD and play it off that.

combatmedic wrote:I brought my Sirius XM receiver and donated it to my FLGS. We usually have the classic rock or Alt Rock station going, and if theres nothing on, we turn on the TV and watch a sports game or a movie. Thankfully none of us seem to be heavy metal guys, which is fine by me, never been much of a fan.

When painting I like to just sit in the backyard and put the zune on shuffle and turn on the noise cancellation on my 'phones. A car could run through my back yard and I wouldn't hear it.

No heavy metal??? =(
Lol I drove through there

Tyras wrote:I've got a playlist, but it's down low, just for background noise. I need every remianing brain cell I have to bang together to think tactically lol trying to listen to music would over-load the system and bad things would happen.


"Ok, so I'm assaulting your tactical squad over there. What's their initiative?"

"Lint polkas drive cosmic vibrations cheese of seventy airfoils with lesser tensil focus."

"What the hell man? Are you on drugs? Damn it! It's the music again, let me turn that down."

"Where the hell am I? How the hell did my tactical squad get assaulted!? Where are my pants?"

Ive been there. "Wheres my wallet?!?!?! Why am I naked!?!?!? Who failed moral tests?!?!??!"

H.B.M.C. wrote:Soundtracks. I have a large soundtrack collection, most recent purchases being the new Transformers and Star Trek soundtracks, with BSG Season 4 arriving in a few weeks, and we play them endlessly.

In my new place I finally have a sound system that can do MP3 as well, so I can either plug my MP3 player directly in, or burn a million MP3's to a DVD and play it off that.

Soundtracks are great. Gotta love those mp3 playing sound systems and DVDs

I dont really mind about music during games, as long as it isnt Metalcore That said I sometimes turn it off when I want to think, or I just want some quiet.

If you paint, you must isten to music

MotR

During a game, It's got to be metal, especially if it's death metal.

That rule applies to me everywhere though, so the fact that I'm playing Warhammer make no difference.

Metal is awesome, but have any of you heard the soundtrack to 300? It is all classic and is amazing to listen to as you march across the field. I would suggest giving it a try. Listen to Return the King or Submission

Exarch_Nektel wrote:During a game, It's got to be metal, especially if it's death metal.

That rule applies to me everywhere though, so the fact that I'm playing Warhammer make no difference.

Lol Im the same way. METAL ALL THE TIME

acreedon wrote:Metal is awesome, but have any of you heard the soundtrack to 300? It is all classic and is amazing to listen to as you march across the field. I would suggest giving it a try. Listen to Return the King or Submission

Hmm ill have to look that up. It was an epic movie

I either have the radio, some rock station, I like classic rock, mmmm Iron Maiden. or my ipod on shuffle. although to tell the truth once we start playing I'm concentrating to much to hear the music anyways.

I prefer war or scifi movies, like aliens, terminator, starship troopers, predator, platoon, Apocalypse now, full metal jacket, band of brothers and more. Sets the mood.

Why is it that 90% of wargamers are metal fans?
I hate metal. Play something quiet and classical, so that you can enjoy the music when its not your turn, but can concentrate when it is.

It's hard to concentrate when some transgendered attention starved idiot with strep throat is screaming into a microphone about thor know what.

I take it I'm the only one whoe listens to Hardstyle/Techno then

Apocalyptica during apocalypse, FTW!

At my local GW they heavy metal, really helps those moments where your decideing to charge or not.
CHARGE!!!!!
I usally play heavy matal and rap only the hardcore stuff.

Hardstyle wrote:I take it I'm the only one whoe listens to Hardstyle/Techno then

I like to listen to trance while painting...above and beyond/ trace around the world type of stuff

How can you not play Bolt Thrower during a game of 40K?

D'oh, how could I forget the band based off the hobby? I'll have to bring their albums into the next gaming session.

Canonness Rory wrote:
I hate metal. Play something quiet and classical, so that you can enjoy the music when its not your turn, but can concentrate when it is.

I like classical music too. I just prefer metal.

What... you don't play classical over a game about toy soldiers killing each other. I mean, come on. Does Saving Private Ryan have Mozart as its ambient music?

As my first post indicated, my group listens to soundtracks while playing. The only heavy stuff we'd play would be Bolt Thrower.

Canonness Rory wrote:Why is it that 90% of wargamers are metal fans?
I hate metal. Play something quiet and classical, so that you can enjoy the music when its not your turn, but can concentrate when it is.

It's hard to concentrate when some transgendered attention starved idiot with strep throat is screaming into a microphone about thor know what.

Lol I cant imagine a massive ork charge to Behtoven's symphony.

Actually metal relaxes and calms me. Everyone is unique and react differently to different sounds

Sgt Rinehart wrote:How can you not play Bolt Thrower during a game of 40K?

OMG! I gotta download that!

I keep a running dialogue with my opponent telling him what I'm doing, how many dice I'm rolling and why, which doesn't leave much room for music.

We always play music when we play. Usually it's metal (Metallica, Disturbed, etc...), but if it's a particularily epic battle or campaign, we have some of those WWII Movie-style tunes, and some fittingly GRIMDARK Symphony

So far, my favorite song to listen to while playing 40K is "Indestructible" from Disturbed. That song is made of raw mansauce.

Canonness Rory wrote:
Why is it that 90% of wargamers are metal fans?
I hate metal. Play something quiet and classical, so that you can enjoy the music when its not your turn, but can concentrate when it is.

It's hard to concentrate when some transgendered attention starved idiot with strep throat is screaming into a microphone about thor know what.

There are many kinds of Metal. Speed, Thrash, Death, Heavy, Alternative, and so on. I too hate Screametal and any other format where the Singer just yells or screams with no real vocal skill. Thrash and Alternative are good though, because you actually get singing

Music=necessary... never heard of this bolt thrower tho.. how old are they?

300 sound track is awesome to listen to

Jon Touchdown wrote:


Actually metal relaxes and calms me. Everyone is unique and react differently to different sounds

Me too. I go to sleep each night with metal playing.