LEADERHEAD PACK - Flags as Leaderheads!

[Straczynski]

On the Portuguese flag, what about this...
Ancient era: Dom Henrique's banner, a blue cross on an white field. It's the country's most ancient flag - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt-1143.html
Medieval era: The banner-of-arms of the Portuguese shield - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt-1485.html
Industrial age: Either the one in the Napoleonic conquest, or the blue-white bicolour - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt_1830.html
Modern era: The red-green bicolour.

Hey, what can I do, I love flags...

 

[Mobilize]

It'd be great to have Ancient, Middle, Indust, and Modern age versions for each flags like Stro had. For some civs this would be hard but I think it's possible.

For America per say:
Ancient - Blue square in upper-left, red cross
Middle - 13 stars (one you have)
Industrial - 14-48 stars
Modern - 50 stars

Byzantines -
Ancient - Some ancient Greek banner
Middle - Byzantine flag
Industrial - Istanbul flag?
Modern - Modern Istanbul flag or flag of Bulgaria or something like that

Iroquois -
Ancient - Feathers
Middle - Iroquois flag
Industrial - previous flag but with stars or stripes for how many tribes in the confederacy
Modern - an evolved form of the Industrial

Vikings -
Ancient - some banner
Middle - old old Denmark
Industrial - Denmark
Modern - Norway

Celts -
Ancient - some banner/design
Middle - Irish kingdom/province or Wales
Industrial - Scotland or British Ireland
Modern - Ireland

etc. etc. Start coming up with lists..

 

[Straczynski]

For the US flag... Why not making the rattlesnake flag (the "Don't tread on me" one) for the Medieval era?

 

[Mobilize]

I was thinging of using that for the Ancient era because if you think about it.. the colonies were pre-industrial so that leaves them as middle aged.

 

[Straczynski]

I see...

 

[Emperor Xerxes]

Byzantines:

Ancient: Double headed eagle.
Middle: One you made with the St. Georges crosses on it.
Industrial: A Greek flag.
Modern: Make one yourself; get a red background and add the double headed eagle, in its two claws instead of a sword and royal orb add a hammer in one hand and a sickle in the other. That gives you the Byzantine Peoples Republic.

 

[spincrus]

Originally posted by Rufus T.Firefly
I have becoming to do advisor and pedia pcx to use it in scenarios. On next week I think that I'll making all.

@SpincruS:
If you give us your texture and filter, we can help you. Think about it!

(Sorry guys couldn't attend the forums the past few days)

Yeah, it's basicly Xenofex 1.0's "Flag" filter. The texture itself can be anything with random stripes on it. The easiest one to use (and the first one I used) is a grass texture, but that didn't give the right effect, IMO.

 

[Mobilize]

Emperor Xerxes: The Byzantines flags can be just like the Greeks but red. Also branching off this idea.. the Iroquois modern flag could possibly be the Canadian flag but blue rather than red.

This morning since I had Saturday School (4 hours of doing nothing) I decided to come up with a list for every civilization including the flag for Ancient, Middle, Industrial, and Modern ages. It's incomplete but I have completed the entire row for a few civs.. this is what I have for those certain ones.

America:
A- Snake flag
M- Colonial flag (13 stars) (made by SprincruS)
I- 1867-77 flag (37 stars)
M- Current flag (50 stars)

Austria:
A- Yellow/black/white flag
B- Red/white/red flag
C- Red/white/red / red/white/green flag (Austro-Hungary)
D- Red/white/red w/coat (made by SprincruS)

Byzantines:
A- Red flag with white couped cross
B- St, George's cross flag (made by SprincruS)
C- Paleoleague Orthodox cross on red flag
D- Byzantine double-headed eagle over red flag

China:
A- Imperial flag w/no dragon (made by SprincruS)
B- Imperial flag w/dragon (made by SprincruS)
C- Republic of China flag/Current Taiwan
D- People's Republic of China (made by SprincruS)

England:
A- St. George's Cross (made by SprincruS)
B- St. George's Cross w/coat (made by SprincruS)
C- British Commonwealth flag? (made by Firaxis)
D- Union Jack (made already?)

Germany:
A- Some sort of Germanic symbol, any ideas?
B- Teutonic Order flag (made by SprincruS)
C- Nazi Germany [naval] (made by SprincruS)
D- DDR of Germany (made by SprincruS)

Greece:
A- Shield symbol (made by SprincruS)
B- Blue flag with white cross
C- Flag w/coat (made by SprincruS)
D- Current flag (made by SprincruS?)

Rome:
A- SPQR flag (made by SprincruS)
B- HRE flag (made by SprincruS?)
C- Italy w/coat (made by SprincruS)
D - Current Italy

Vikings:
A- Some sort of symbol
B- Another symbol
C- Denmark
D- Norway

Well there's some for you guys. For a lot of these flags we will have to create by ourselves because flags weren't really used until the 1600's. The only people to really carry flags before then were the Scythians, Huns, and other Turkic tribes.. and those flags were rather differating and extremely simplistic with symbols of animals, stars, etc.

 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Mobilize

Rome:
A- SPQR flag (made by SprincruS)
B- HRE flag (made by SprincruS?)
C- Italy w/coat (made by SprincruS)
D - Current Italy

B - What is HRE? On middle ages italy was not a country, but it was divided on communs, like Florence, Venice, Genua etc. You can use Venice Republic flag or Florence one.
C - If you tell about tricolore with eagle, not. The country flag was tricolore with Savoye arm, like the one I have already posted.

 

[Straczynski]

Originally posted by Mobilize
England:
C- British Commonwealth flag? (made by Firaxis)

Commonwealth? Why not the pre-1801 UJ? http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/g/gb-1606.gif

Germany:
A- Some sort of Germanic symbol, any ideas?

All I can think off is the Holy Roman Emperor's standart: http://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de_roman.html

C- Nazi Germany [naval] (made by SprincruS)

Why not the II Reich naval ensign? http://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de1871~w.html

D- DDR of Germany (made by SprincruS)

DDR? He did the DBR's state flag. West, not East.

Vikings:
A- Some sort of symbol

Maybe this one? http://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/no-raven.html

 

[Straczynski]

Originally posted by Rufus T.Firefly
B - What is HRE?

Holy Roman Empire.

 

[10Seven]

While I am working on the scenario: My Vietnam - I had decided to remov animated leaders from the file - as their addition sent the scenario over 150MB. I decided to go back to unanimated flags. These were completed some time ago, but I do find the additional work you have done to be highly effective - in particular, the wave affect.

Since USSR and China are done, I wonder if you might consider a few additions. These, namely, Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Republic of Vietnam aka North and South Vietnam respectively. And The Royal Khmer government, Khmer Rouge, Royal Lao government, and Lao Patriotic Front, and, finally, Thailand.

In case you are agreeable, I have attached sample flags...

 

[raen]

Originally posted by Straczynski
On the Portuguese flag, what about this...
Ancient era: Dom Henrique's banner, a blue cross on an white field. It's the country's most ancient flag - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt-1143.html
Medieval era: The banner-of-arms of the Portuguese shield - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt-1485.html
Industrial age: Either the one in the Napoleonic conquest, or the blue-white bicolour - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pt_1830.html
Modern era: The red-green bicolour.

Hey, what can I do, I love flags...

I agree with your choices, makes sense I love flags too, and I think Brasilian and Portuguese actual flags are a piece of art

 

[unscratchedfoot]

I love these flags and they look real cool with that wavy effect. Thanks to them, it's sooooo much easier to add a new civ now without all the headaches of animated leaderhead files. Many thanks

 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Straczynski
Holy Roman Empire.

Oh, ok. The Holy Roman Empire was more german than italian, so I think that is not so appropriated. Barbarossa can't have predominion over italian cities, and the Lumbardy league defeat the emperor on his italian campaigns. So, on meddle ages Italy was not a nation and its condition reamined untill 1861, with the proclamation of Italian kingdom (remember Metternich: "Italy is only a geographical expression). An alternative maybe the Papal state, the oldest italian state.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Originally posted by SpincruS

- Civil War Confederation flag (naval ensign, which looks much better)

Why don't you just use the Battle Flag? Its what it is famous for.

- Alabama
- Texas
- United States (w/ 50 stars)
- California (hey Ekmek how you doin' )
- Maryland
- Rhode Island
- Virginia

Any requests are welcome.

How about Pennsylvania (if you need a picture of it, let me know).

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Why don't you just use the Battle Flag? Its what it is famous for.

I say it's better to use the Stars and Bars since it was the first national flag of the Confederate States of America.

 

[spincrus]

@Mobilize - The Union Jack for UK and the Rep. of China have been done by Firaxis, too.

@Everyone: For other minor flags, such as a white cross over a red background or a blue cross over a white background, recycle the Denmark and Finland flags I've done


Here's my to-do list on flags (it's very crude, I just add lines everytime someone comes up with an idea, so that I don't miss them while making flags and such):

Golden Horde
Seljuks
Ottomans
Huns
Timurid Empire
Moghul Empire
Mongolia
Republic of China (NOT people's republic)
America - Snake flag
America - Industrial Age Flag
Austria - Yellow/black/white
Austria - Red/white/red
Austria - Red/white/green
Byzantines - Red flag with white cross (flag for Denmark)
Byzantines - Paleoleague Orthodox cross on red
Byzantine - double headed eagle over red
Germany - DDR
Rome - Current Italy
Rome - Veneto
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Thailand
Royal Khmer Govnt.
Khmer Rouge
ROyal Lao govnt.
Lao Patriotic Front (see 10Seven's post for the attachment)
Reconsider Straczynski's Portuguese flags
Pennsylvania

 

[TheLastKnight]

Originally posted by SpincruS
Habsburg Dynasty (excluding Spain) / Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary's Flag sure did not look like today's flag of the Republic of Austria, the one you have chosen to represent the Habsburg Dynasty.

So I would recommend either removing the Eagle or replacing it.
The correct eagle looks entirely differen:

Grave mistake there!

 

[spincrus]

OK TheLastKnight; I'm half Austrian, lived in Vienna for years. I know that it's not the Habsburg flag as much as you do. The reason I did it that way was to make it usable for all eras of Austria.

I would like to remind you that I was doing the flags for another purpose in the beginning, and just wanted to share them to the public afterwards. I didn't have era-specific flags in mind, since I just wanted to be quickly done with flags that would maybe represent all eras.

The current Bundesgesetz used in my flag is that of Austria, and the two headed eagle would sure be the coat of arms of the Habsburgs. True, but if I did that, I should also have replaced one of the red stripes with green, symbolizing Hungary.