Changes in v0.5.0
This one starts in Europe and then goes all over the map. Lots of neat flags this time around!
ITALY
1. Constitutional monarchies now have the civil version of the flag without the crown.
2. Here's a big one, the coat of arms on Italy's flag should change based on who unifies Italy. It's a little hacky, since you can't actually track that with triggers, but it'll work most of the time. The Bourbon-Sicily arms will appear if your monarch is South Italian (which generally will mean that Italy was unified by Two Sicilies.)
3. There's also a crownless version of this flag for constitutional monarchies.
4. Italy's current civil ensign will be used for monarchies where the capital is in Emilia, Tuscany, or Venetia. This should more-or-less cover unification by other Italian minors -- although if you move your capital to a different state the old flag will appear.
5. Theocracies now have the Papal crossed keys and tiara on the central stripe, which should cover a unification by the Papal States.
6. Italy's republic flag is unchanged, but now has a subject version with a coat of arms on it.
7. There's also a blue ensign with the arms from the civil flag on the fly if a monarchy becomes a subject.
8. The old dictatorship flag with the Napoleonic eagle is now exclusively used as the French puppet flag. The version without the eagle replaces it.
9. The communist flag has a new design based on the flag of the Garibaldi Brigades. (This is one case where slapping a red star in the middle of a tricolour actually makes perfect historic sense.)
10. The flag of Young Italy from 1831 is now used for secessionist or revolutionary Italy.
TWO SICILIES
1. The blue and white "land flag" is used as the default Constitutional Monarchy flag
2. ...Until you research Nationalism. Once that tech's unlocked, the country's 1848 flag with the Italian colours on the border gets used for Constitutional Monarchy instead.
3. The shortlived 1860 flag with the tricolour on the central stripe is used for puppets of Italy or Sardinia.
4. For other subjects, there's a new white ensign based on the flag of the Royal Sicilian Regiment.
5. Communist states now have a flag based on the diagonal Sicilian bicolour.
6. The Carbonari tricolour, flown in Naples during the 1820 revolution, is the new Republic flag.
7. However your capital is in Sicily instead of Naples, the Republic flag will be the one flown by revolutionary Sicily in 1848.
8. Oligarchies now use one version of the flag of the Parthenopean Republic from 1799.
9. The base game republic flag is now exclsuively used as the French puppet flag. The shade of blue has also been lightened.
10. The flag of EVIS from the 1940s is used as the American puppet flag.
PARMA
1. Parma now has two sets of monarchy flags -- one before 1848 and one after. Technically this should be tied to the death of the starting monarch, but since there's no trigger to track that, I put down a date instead. The pre-1848 absolute monarchy flag is the country's old civil ensign, and the constitutional monarchy flag is the red and white flag currently in the game.
2. After 1848, the pinwheel flag from 1851 is used as the absolute monarchy flag, and the blue and yellow flag currently used as the republic flag becomes the constitutional monarchy flag.
3. The new republic flag is the traditional city flag of Parma.
4. An early version of the pinwheel flag from 1850 is used as the dictatorship flag.
5. There's also a new fictional communist flag, inspired by the same motif.
TUNISIA
1. Tunis starts with its modern flag -- it was actually adopted all the way back in 1831. The five striped flag is now just used for Oligarchies or Dictatorships.
2. The puppet version of the flag has a very small canton, as it did historically.
3. If an absolute monarchy becomes fully independent (i.e. not a protectorate) it uses the Bey's 19th century standard. This was a common sight on flag charts during the era. I love the look of this one.
4. There's also a unique fictional communist flag.
LIBERIA
1. The Liberian flag has the correct 11 stripes instead of the 13 in game. The flag is now used as soon as Liberia becomes fully independent.
2. The cross flag is now used when the county's an American puppet, an American protectorate, or a theocracy. (The cross is also very slightly tweaked to be more accurate.)
3. For all other overlords, there's a new blue ensign flag.
4. There's now a fictional monarchy flag with yellow stripes and a crown. This is actually inspired by a flag commonly (but mistakenly) attributed to the colony of Maryland-in-Africa
5. There's an entirely invented communist flag as well.
MISKITO KINGDOM
1. The country now starts with the Miskito Royal Standard from 1845, which includes a malformed Union Jack
2. If the country becomes a republic, the crown in the lower right is replaced by the Miskito coat of arms.
3. And the Communist flag is an inverted version with the Union Jack at the bottom right. (This is actually inspired by a real Miskito flag from a few years ago, although that one was not supposed to be communist.)
4. If Miskito becomes a puppet of Nicaragua, its historical 1860 flag is used.
5. And if any other country puppets it, it becomes a dynamic ensign instead.
