Moraiwe
Warlord
It's spelled Triést in Venetian though, but it doesn't belong on a Republic of Venice city list. It was Austrian for far longer.
What is that violet-white civ on the mini map down there?
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Bakspatel
Prince
That is actually the plural of 'Triest' in DutchIt is spelled "Trieste" and it is my home town.
Ah I see, it's in Slovenia. I still want to visit that country one day. I have read a lot about the beautiful landscape there.
Oh by the way Menzies & the others: keep on talking about Venice! You really have convinced me that Venice could be an awesome addition to the expansion.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
It's odd that the Union gets their uniforms and the Confederates get their flag (especially since the flag has the same colors as the Union (United States) Flag). That being said, the Confederates weren't exclusively gray. They also had a brown/butterscotch colored uniform as well. Interestingly enough, the Iroquois symbol is pretty close to both colors
I would probably have gone with gray background, red center, though, given the choice.
Moraiwe
Warlord
That is actually the plural of 'Triest' in Dutch
Ah I see, it's in Slovenia. I still want to visit that country one day. I have read a lot about the beautiful landscape there.
Oh by the way Menzies & the others: keep on talking about Venice! You really have convinced me that Venice could be an awesome addition to the expansion.
It's in Italy, not Slovenia,
Oh, and I think Menzies would be pretty annoyed if he somehow managed to convince you that Venice would be an awesome addition. He doesn't want it.
VermelhoRed
Prince
Yep, sensible choices could be based on either the coat of arms of Florence (red and white) or the coat of arms of the Medici (red and yellow):
Then again, with the existing Civs to go on they could be anything...
Looks wonderful, but maybe purple like Fiorentina's shirt would fit? Tuscany would be better as a purple and cream civ than Venice
gunnergoz
Cat Herder
That is actually the plural of 'Triest' in Dutch
Ah I see, it's in Slovenia. I still want to visit that country one day. I have read a lot about the beautiful landscape there.
Oh by the way Menzies & the others: keep on talking about Venice! You really have convinced me that Venice could be an awesome addition to the expansion.
Trieste is in Italy now my friend, not Slovenia; It has been since 1954.
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Oops, got beat to the punch.
gunnergoz
Cat Herder
You mean that is how it is spelled in the Venetian dialect? I've not seen it spelled that way in the rest of Italy.
Merciorum
Prince
Those weren't really colonies of Venice. They were territories they conquered. A "colony" is rather different.
Like the Huns?
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Moraiwe
Warlord
Yes, but Venetian is now considered to be a separate language, not a dialect. For what it's worth, it's spelled Triest in German.
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Ugh - those are revoltingly ugly, even worse than The Aztecs or Morocco!
Bright Color on Red looks clashing to the eyes, and is hard to read and see the details...
Agreed, the Rule of tincture exists for a reason!
If I had to make the CSA icon, I'd have gone with red and white I think:
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Brighter red, like the one they currently have. Huns have a more brownish-red.
PerceeP927
Warlord
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Yes, I would think the Iroquois fit purple/cream better, but that's not really the point most of us who think Venice is in are focusing on. As I have said again and again, that is sadly irrelevant. The devs have shown before that if they have to, they won't use the most obvious colors - China is the most egregious case of this, as they ignored the imperial colors of yellow and red (red of which is also a highly important color in Chinese culture) for the very odd green and white. Sure, jade is important to Chinese history and society, but would you have America be represented by yellow for French Fries, England represented by black for coal, and Turkey dark brown for coffee? Point is, as the example of China demonstrates, relatively nonsensical color choices for civs are not implausible. If anything, they might not have wanted another red/yellow civ. Someone's gotta lose.
As Menzies has demonstrated, the correlation between wikipedia's Venetian "purple" and the one seen in the screenshot is so high, it's almost impossible at this point that something else is in. I dont remember exactly the exact statistics, but it was somewhere like 1 in 4650 for an extremely conservative estimate.
Tsuchinoko
Warlord
Apparently, if you're Firaxis, the wrong one.
In all seriousness though, someone will probably make a mod to change it within a few days of the expansion's release, so there's not really any point in anyone stressing out about it.
PerceeP927
Warlord
I'd like to see more samples be taken of the colors of the Iroquois flags. I lack the tools necessary.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Menzies compared the purple with several Iroqouis flags a while back, I think, but you can ask him to do a comparison with several different Iroqouis flags if you want, I'm sure he'd be more than happy to do so.
I don't htink they'd replace the Iroquois colors, though. They've never done that in Civ5. If they did, I'd be demanding they change China's colors immediately.
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