Faction colours and Clan heraldry
In the many battles that we have seen in the various videos of this year's gamescom, the warriors of the Calradic factions are clothed in distinct, uniform colours. While this provides much visual clarity and makes the battlefield easy to read, in the eyes of some members of this forum, including myself, it does not always seem very attractive, as recent discussions show. Moreover it does not allow to distinguish warriors from different clans within a faction from one another. As a compromise, that on the one hand retains much of the distinction between factions, but also provides variety within a faction, and adds character to each clan, I suggest this:
Each faction has two colours associated with it. Clans have individual heraldry, early and simple when compared to history. This heraldry is comprised of the faction colours, with variations in shades, and can include one or two fields as well as a device/emblem.
My first idea for the faction colours would be these:
Vlandia: red and gold
Battania: green and brown
Asserai: yellow and brown
Khuzait: turquoise and black
Sturgia: blue and white
Empire: purple and gold
Now I'm not an artist, and this is just a rough draft of what finished clan heraldry might look like, but here you go.
I'm sure everyone would be able to tell without difficulty, which faction these coats of arms belong to, even without the captions.
It is of course possible, that this or a similar idea has already been discussed at Taleworlds and there are solid reasons why they decided against it. If so, fair enough. Maybe some of that reasoning could be shared with us in this case. I'd be genuinely interested.
Here is another example of what clan heraldry might look like, by someone considerably more capable than myself.
Terco_Viejo said:
One problem with this idea might be, that in Bannerlord's new army system, troops are grouped by their class, not by clans, so that all infantry from all the lords in an army is put together in a unit. That unit might look quite disorganized and not very pleasing if the various clan devices are mixed randomly. But I hope that it might be possible to group soldiers within a unit by clan, so that a unit of infantry, for example, consists of several blocks, each made up of warriors of one clan. That way the unit would still look structured, while including visual variety as well.
