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I installed v1.08 yesterday and immediately saw that a lot of the shields and flags are changed...

So I have several questions about the changes.....


Eire:
-Shield: Blue with yellow Harp
-Flag: Green with yellow Harp

Why did the color of the shield changed from Green to Blue ??


Scotland:
-Shield: Blue/Red with white cross
-Flag: Blue with white cross (I think, I'm not sure and can't check it...)

Why does the flag now includes Red ???


Is this historically correct or did it change for some other reason.... ???


There are a lot more changes but I haven't had the time (yet) to check them all.... (and all the bmp's were overwritten during the 1.08 install...)
 
Eberk said:
I installed v1.08 yesterday and immediately saw that a lot of the shields and flags are changed...

So I have several questions about the changes.....


Eire:
-Shield: Blue with yellow Harp
-Flag: Green with yellow Harp

Why did the color of the shield changed from Green to Blue ??
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The shield is based on the coat of arms of Eire, hence the blue color. :)


Eberk said:
Scotland:
-Shield: Blue/Red with white cross
-Flag: Blue with white cross (I think, I'm not sure and can't check it...)

Why does the flag now includes Red ???


Is this historically correct or did it change for some other reason.... ???


There are a lot more changes but I haven't had the time (yet) to check them all.... (and all the bmp's were overwritten during the 1.08 install...)
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1180: The oldest extant record of the St. Andrews cross flag is on a seal in St. Andrews, where it is used as a religious, not a national, emblem
1286: the St. Andrews cross was first known to be a national emblem of Scotland (the seal of the guardians of Scotland).
1385: every Scots soldier used a saltire on his uniform (often used on black, not blue - the background colour seems to have been of less importance)
1388: the Standard of the Earl of Douglas used a St. Andrews cross and a lion
1503: the first certain use of a plain St. Andrew's Cross flag - but the field was red, not blue (the Vienna Book of Hours).
Source: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-scotl.html#ori

The flag in 1.08 is based on the Scottish flag seen on this pic:
oldmap.gif


See this thread for more info: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105672

Don't really know how that flag sneaked in GUFSM... :rolleyes:
 
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Birger Jarl said:
Don't really know how that flag sneaked in GUFSM... :rolleyes:
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Bless you son! :p

A.
 
Flag of Brabant:
nl-nb.gif


Coat of arms of Croatia:
img207.jpg


Nope, it's not a Croatian flag, look at the pattern... There was a dicussion about this over at the GUFSM thread some time ago. We agreed on using the above flag for Brabant since the Palatinate flag looks almost the same and according to MKJ that is the flag of Brabant. :cool:
 
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