Need help with battle soundtracks

The trooper by Iron Maiden. 
Mostly when your cavalry charges into the enemy gunline and gets shredded to pieces 

or this as 8+ gyrocopters/bombers fly and bomb the enemy units.

We used the play the soundtrack to the Schwarzenegger "Conan the Barbarian" film. Great fantasy wargame music. That music now makes me think of tabletop games rather the the film!!!!

From the late 14th century, composers were not only writing songs about war, but trying to imitate the sounds of war,¹ a technique that continues to this day. The first such song that can be tied to a real battle is A la battaglia by another Franco-Flemish composer, Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450-1517). When working in Florence for Lorenzo di Medici, Isaac set to music a poem by Gentile Aretino, celebrating the military capture of the fortress of Sarzanello from the Genoese in 1485, which Florence subsequently managed to hold on to, despite a two year siege. The music was probably first performed in 1485 (also the year of Isaac's arrival), but it certainly was used during the Carnival season in 1488. 


Alla battaglia, presto! Alla battaglia!
Armisi ognun di sua corazza e maglia.
Per parte dell’excelso capitano
Ognun sia presto armato e sia in camino
Su valenti Signor di mano in mano
Signor Julio e Organtino
O Signor Paulo Orsino.

Schinier, falda e corazza
Fiancaletto su lancia, stocco e mazza.
Al caval, al caval!
Su messer Hercole! Criaco e Cerbone,
Conte Rinuccio e ’l signor Honorato
Sir di Piombino, Annibale e Guidone,
Giovan Savel Malaspina e Currado.

Ognun sia presto armato e a caval montato,
Su spade, sproni e alabarde,
Aleardo, Aleardo, seguitiam lo stendardo!
Bolognesi e Galleschi
Alor che son prigioni e rotti.
Su’ huom’ valenti e franchi stradiotti.
Su buon soldati e docti
Leviam di qui questa brutta canaglia.


To battle,! Quick! To battle!
Each armed with his own cuirass and mail.
On behalf of the excellent captain,
Let everyone swiftly be armed and on their way
Forwards worthy gentlemen, one by one,
Sir Julio and Organtino,
Or sir Paulo Orsino.

Greaves, fauld and side armour!
Forwards spear, rapier and mace.
To the horses, to the horses!
Forwards Messer Hercules! Criaco and Cerbone,
Count Rinuccio and sir Honorato,
Lord of Piombino, Annibale and Guidone,
Giovan Savel Malaspina and Currado.


Let each one swiftly be armed and mounted,
Forwards swords, spurs and halberds,
Aleardo, Aleardo, let us follow the standard!
The Bolognese and the French,
They are prisoners and broken.
Forwards brave and frank men.
Forwards good soldiers and scholars,
Let us get this ugly scoundrel out from here. 

More to follow...


1.  Funnily enough, the first known example is actually to be found in a love song: "Alarme" by magister Grimace. I guess, love is war. 

interestingly enough, this battle is also known as the "battle of giants" in Italian.

Even more interestingly the marble relief could easily pass as art from warhammer as it's in very much the same style. Also no one, and I mean absolutely no one can convince me that that is not an organ gun lent to the young king by a dwarven hold