"It is said that the souls of the vanquished who linger upon forgotten battlefields know not that they are dead and so they continue their march towards a battle that has long since past."
The two armies met, and there was terrible carnage, and the crash of spears and their breaking and the clash of swords smiting as they moved over the frozen sea, and you could not see the ice, it was covered with blood. - Life of Alexandre Nevskii, The Battle of Lake Peipus, 1242
On one hand, this song makes me envision a grand army, inexorably conquering everything that lays in its path. On the other hand, I also listen to this because, due to the music's deep and dark notes, it paradoxically also conveys to me an image of a huge defeated army in a slow retreat. The feeling when you give everything you got. And yet you're still found wanting. In many ways, life is like that. And sometimes it all just seems so pointless... I guess we have to just keep calm, and carry on. Anyways, nice vid. Machs gut!
I remember when was playing as Novgorod, and was trying to fight the Mongol Hordes in the East. There was loads of bloodshed and the rivers turned red, and I just could not fight toe-to-toe, with 2 armies really hurten. Then the epic moment of MTW2 I safeguard in my heart : I've reunited the two armies and retreated to mountains, with mongols at my heels, with a fragile hope of not victory, but survival . Such was this feeling, that I player this song while retreating, watching the cities burning, and mustering all strengh to final battle. I've won.
@@natanlopes5254 I've had very very similar experiences with these games, and that's why no matter which strategy game, I always play as a smaller weaker nation, like Lithuania in this; you feel the strain and pain of continuing a civilisation and a peoples, and the reward when all of that comes to prosper. I remember the opening stages of the Lithuania campaign where only tactics and sheer will is the only thing than can delay the seemingly inevitable encroachment of the Teutons, until there is a bitter stalemate, and finally the enemy suddenly breaks like steel with a stress fracture and you reign supreme.
I still remember when I was first time playing this and reading faction descriptions while this music is playing. Feels like every faction has trouble and dark times closing in.
The Teutonic Order were a crusader order... Shows the extent of what the Teutoboos actually know about the historical order: "HURRRRRR COOL HELMETSSSS"
this background is somehow guesome. This unending stream of marching Crusaders and also heathens. It's like all the dead of these wars are haunting these lands, dwelling in the castles and on the battlefields of old, marching in death as they did in life. Silent, spooky shadows of their former existance wandering the land in search for peace. Only to be seen at night through the thick fog of the dark baltic woods. Barely being more than illusions - or maybe not ?
Troughout europe there are tales of entire ghostly armies appearing hundreds of years after their battle, unable to let go of their grudge against the enemy, even in death they march forward to fight a long lost war.
@@dershogun6396 The Battle of Culloden: between the english Jacobin rebels and loyalists of Hanover house. It was the last battle fought on the island of Britain and to this day some claim they hear ghostly warcries, clashes of swords and see spectral soldiers attacking each other each year at the anneversaries of the battle (Apr 16.) The American civil war especially the battle of gettysburg and the battle of Antietam Creek also invoced many similar stories, aldough these are less spectecular in terms of the full extent of paranormal activities. There are countless other stories but news and google seem to be dominated by these 3 ghostly battlefields.
@@dershogun6396 I don't know about war, but a significant theme in pagan European folklore is the motif of a "Wild Hunt", or a "Host", popularized recently by Witcher 3. It's a large (20-30 individuals) gathering of semi-transparent elves, fairies, ghosts and demons, riding on black horses or black goats, hunting its prey (whether it's just animals, or a daemoness, or some innocent virgin girl), usually noticed in the middle of the night by some frightened watchman.
@@roadent217 i know this myth. A german fairytale figure caled Frau Holle is probably a mix between the germanic godess Hel and the leader of the wild hunt. It's in our german folklore too!
Mounted officer of Death Korps of Krieg, Jin-Roh brigade trooper, Helghast soldier, Black Hand trooper, Nilfgaardian mounted knight, OKW obersoldaten, Rogue One Death Trooper, Imperial Sardaukar, United Empire trooper.
tbh that's an underrated and sad comment. Most people who are presumed "alphas" or "popular kids" listen to that boring shit and bully those who actually enjoy this music. Even though im the most Alpha looking because everyone is either skronny and skinny or obese af while im pretty buff but nerdy. My channel has the evidence of my neediness and loneliness
@@americohagim1131 I've checked your channel out though I couldn't find any "neediness" or "Loneliness". I thought it was a pretty sick channel. Lego stop-motion has always been a classic favorite of mine and personally, I thought you did it very well. If anything, your channel has evidence of the potential for growth. Upload more!
when the track ends and loops back to the first 2 notes, it feels like a drum/bass-less section should follow. That would actually be so beautiful, like the "dust settling down after the empire falls" atmosphere.
An ancient faith that is a shadow of its glorious and honorable past. Now it's like a curse haunting the land. A flood of people marching, perhaps to their deaths, for the cause they believe in, without ever knowing.
Looks like when I was about to face a coalition of novgorodian and lithuans in a region of mountains, where was the only chance to resist the storm . Mountains of hope ,could nt be better for ANY situation, where u know u is rightous Sorry bad english
I'd like to use this music for a tabletop rpg that I created, this would be the entry theme of the north pole, where the knights of the ices, the Eisborens, would meet the players, riding reindeers and wearing plates armours of blue iron.
@@americohagim1131 Yes I did. Nothing serious for now, I just have a map on a paper, the scenario on my pc, as well as the history of this world, but yeah, I did it.
Look traditional Catholic communities. Even in the Netherlands, a country thoroughly eroded by liberalism, we still have this in at least 4 places, centered arround the Traditional Latin Mass of our grandparents, and most of us having very big families, this tradition will make a full comeback the next generation. And the next generation after may put the crusades back on the map lol, who knows.
When I was a kid I remember getting out of my room after putting the game in on the menu. Had a slavic maid that needed to clean my room, and a few minutes later she asks me to get out of the menu as "it reminds her of death".
Joshua Corney the Problem is: Medieval 2 is an old game and the graphic isnt very good. I tried my best to achieve 1080p. What do you Need That Movie for?
History lesson: The Teutonic Knights are the origin of the German Prussians, a tradition that lived through the German military of WW1 and ended with WW2 and the abolition of Prussia by the Allies.
