What? No, Sweden in the mod is spawning as the
rejection of the Kalmar union - be a tad silly to have their flag. Why not have the gold lion on white and blue stripes, from the coat of arms of the swedish empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hessen_kassel.gif. The three crowns works too, but the blue and white stripes is more distinctive IMO.
For the Kievan Rus, no flags seem to be mentioned - but how about the Coat of arms of Chernigov, (
Black double headed eagle on white with blue shield) or the coat of arms of Kiev (
Archangel on Blue), or finally the coat of arms of the Ukraine (
Yellow trident on blue)
We should probably compile a list of national colours first, and then work the flags around that. Here are the ones I think rather unequivcal:
Umayyads - Islamic Green.
Byzantines - Imperial Purple/Roman Red
Kiev - The light blue you get on many of the steppe nations flags (and background of the Ukrainian and Kiev coat of arms).
England - Light Red
France - Dark Blue
Papacy - Cream
Germany - the Orange-Gold seen on the HRE flag.
Burgundy - Burgundy? Doesn't go well with the flag but does contrast with the neighbours.
Austria - Bright yellow (but not quite Egyptian florescent, as seen on the flag of the
Austrian empire)
Netherlands - Orange or the faded blue of the flag, which chosen needs to contrast enough with France/Germany.
Portugal - Green (doesn't fit with the flag, which is why I'd suggest using the flag St. L suggested, but replacing the red border with green).
Sweden - Bright Blue (as sported by the Americans)
Muscovy - the Russian colour in BtS fits quite well
Spain - Dark yellow, or the light purple of the
kingdom of leon
(Thats 2 shades of green, 3 shades of red, 3 of blue, 4-5 on the Orange-yellow continum, and a few purples)
Still need to decided upon, in such a way as to fit their flags and constrast with the established colours:
Ottomans - An untaken red, brown or green?
Cordoba - ???
Genoa - White perhaps?, or a shade of red thats untaken
Venice - I would suggest a bright green (as it hasn't been taken yet)
Poland - a pinky-red perhaps, with the flag the same shade
Hungary - Browny colour (the flag could be made browner to fit whilst maintaining the barred cross)
Bulgaria - perhaps the off-green from the modern flag?
Norse - White maybe (it features on most of the flags), or a blue thats distinct from Sweden and France