zabfalat said:
By Marinid! I laughed so hard at this my wife was startled. And I feel somehow that someone... has drawn me there...
This was a fairly entertaining blog. I will not deny I wanted more info on the crevasses of design choices, more depth about how and why you decided, but given that it was a ton of banners to cover, it would almost become a short story of sorts, so I am content with that. (And 6-7 different blogs for each individual banner would... piss a lot of people off)
I have to admit I liked the banners a bit less than I would, the designs are simplistic and awesome, it's just the
colours:
too much blue for my taste.
I personally love red and warm colours, and the sand brown barely fits into that, but it fits with the factions nicely. I see I will be forced to join Vlandia on the first game because of the awesome red banner...
I have to say that I understand the simplistic approach, and I may dabble with modding to add some finesse and details to the banners because I simply want more complex designs. Not
too complex, just a little more "bam" around the central designs. But I'll have to see how it fares in-game. (Vlandian, Empire and Sturgian banners have really striken me as particularly awesome designs) It's just personal opinion bull****, not an actual complaint about your designs, just to be clear, eh?
On the whole, I really liked this blog. But it left me with a
couple of griping question:
Do minor factions/clans also have different banners/colors? And if they rise to power (if that's possible), do they change the faction banner as well?
And lastly: do banners appear differently on the battlefield depending on troop type/levels, or just Lords' banners on their troops?
NPC99 posted the screenshots above from the old videos, and I wondered if those different designs will be present (to some level) on release, or if everyone will just carry the same banner around (and variety only coming from different lords and their troops present on the battle).
I have no idea if I made myself clear, I'm typing from my cellphone and it sucked the soul out of me. I just want to bang my head against bulletproof glass until it shatters.
Once again, great blog, great topic, really brought some stuff I wanted to learn about, but didn't even hope to see it posted! Boy, each week I sound more and more like a little girl waiting for the
gift to come...