I have been busy organizing little details of my campaign, not wanting to show too much till it is a little more advanced. but i have been having a wee dilema about the flags for my nascent Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Flags.
I have come up with these flags, with the royal eagle on one side and the province embedded on the other, in a way symbolizing the two entities of the commonwealth, the separate provinces or vovoides, and the whole of the country. In the corners i placed the Polish, Lithuanian, Ruthenian and Kings personal crests.
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| Inwroclaw Regiment |
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| Kalisz Regiment |
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| Sandomiersz Regiment |
on the other hand i also developed these simpler private army flags, of the separate magnates, who with too much money to burn, had private armies sometimes rivaling the size of the Commonwealth's own army.
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| Rawicz Regiment |
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| Podlachia Levy |
But is the difference too great? Do the two sets of flags still feel like they are part of the same country?
Looking forward to comments and opinions.
Cheers.
I think that "personal preferences" should come into play here. That means, whatever YOU like; not what I (or anyone else) likes.
ResponEliminaThat being said, personally I feel that that striped backgrounds of the last two flags are "too fussy" for my personal taste . . . but that means nothing if you like them . . . and I do like a variety of colorful flags in an army.
Remember, this is YOUR army, not anyone else's. Use what you like best.
-- Jeff
It's appropriate to have blatantly different flags (both sets are beautiful and 'credible', btw) for the 'State' and private armies. A magnate giving 'regulation-type' flags to his private forces would be suspected of displaying a claim to the throne, and the State and -more importantly?- all his rivals would league against him.
ResponEliminaHi ;)
ResponEliminaI agree with Jeff.. The flags of the private armies are a bit too...ermmm..much...fussy.
Why not symplify them even more?? Use the white cross on red with some coat of arms or a solisd colour.
But in the end, and i agree again with Jeff, it's your army. :)
Jeroen
I especially like the "national" army flags, but feel that the private flags are also appropriate. I just wish I had your talent with designing flags. They all look great!!
ResponEliminaJim
http://colcampbellbarracks.blogspot.com/
Thank you gentlemen for all your good suggestions and encouraging replies. I have been printing the flags out to test them with their respective regiments to see the troops response... We are nominally a republic after all ;)
ResponEliminaWill post pictures of this flag off as soon as possible. Thanks again!