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See about this game here
and here.
It is a real time strategy military simulation game set in the First
Crusade, developed by
Neocore Games, a company based in Hungary. In this game, flags play an
important role in identifying units in battle and as game interface icons.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Flags play a major role in the game action. See
here,
here and
here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008
Although I did not play this game myself, the screenshots available to me
indicate that the flags in this game are all quite oblong, about 3:5 or
1:2, with a triangular tip protuding from the fly of an otherwise
quandrangular flag. The designs seem to be all monocolored with a central
device in a contrasting color and a thin tressure or border on all free
edges. These are used on apparently wooden poles topped with spear
finials, in varying sizes. Typical game scenes show hosts of cavalymen
and even footmen, each carrying an identical flag and some sporting
shields with different designs.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Arabs use green flags with two white crossed scimitarrs and a white
star between and above them, apparently five-pointed. This design is
surely based on the current Saudi flag, although Arabs did use flags with
swords (the zulfikar ) around this time. The star, OTOH, is
ananachronistic.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Franks/French (?) use (dark) blue flags with a large (golden) yellow fleur de lis. This is a simplification of the French arms, both old (Azur semy of fleurs de lis Or) and new (Azur three fleurs de lis Or two and one).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Normans/English use red flags with one (golden) yellow lion in the
usual heraldic stance for England, Normandy
and kin: passant guardant.
"real flags".)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
There is at least one more such flag, hardly visible in the screenshots
available to me (compared with quite many of the three above): a single,
partly visible (golden) yellow flag with a thick red orle (much bolder
than the thin tressure of all others), possibly with some red charge.
"real flags".)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Shields and streamers with the preceeding and more designs are shown
in some of the screenshots available to me, used as iconic markers
(streamers with varying length, as a bar graph).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Azure a fleur de lis Or and in chief a label Gules as
provence — the streamer for this one is unfurled enough to show
the design rotated so that the hoist is the armorial chief).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Or on a bend Gules three eagles displayed Argent as
Lorraine — its streamer seems to be horizontal bicolor of red over
yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Gules a cross paty pomety (?) Or voided as in Occitany.
However the correponding shield is Argent a cross patty pomety (?) Gules
fimbriated Or, in the game interface, but is as described in game artwork
here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 & 11 June 2008
A further screenshot showing a battle scene includes a knight holding a
shield of the Catalonian arms (Or four pallets Gules) with
shoulder smalting in the same pattern.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 & 11 June 2008
Another screenshot shows the same
kind of armour smalt showing the Flemish arms (Or a lion
Sable), but neither shield nor flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
Finally, a couple of crusaders are clad in tabards patterned after the
flag of St. George (Argent a cross Gules throughout),
holding shields in the same pattern.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008
You can see the screenshot here.
The corresponding flag (?) is not St. George's, but rather a white flag
with a red latin cross sideways (longer arm pointing to the fly) in
celtic style. See also here. Also
on golden shield in silver.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008
