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Book-accurate Empire Heraldry - [HN] Banner Overhaul Submod

...at least almost.

I have created this mod because I'm overall a great fan of the [HN] Banner Overhaul, as it upgrades the quality of the visuals and brings some faction symbols and banners closer to their lore equivalents, while maintaining a style that allows for an easy distinction between the factions.
That being said it kinda bothered me over time that the imperial factions are ones whose faction symbols still have few or nothing at all do with their state flags from the heraldry book and are just left vanilla.
The already existing heraldry mods on the other hand didn't satisfy me either because they'll conflict with [HN] mod anduse the wrong flag colour and/or heraldic figure for most Empire factions. Also faction symbols and flags there don't exactly match each other and contribute to confusion.
That's why you're hereby getting another heraldry mod, this time from me.

This mod can be used as standalone but was created for the purpose of being used as a submod for the [HN] Banner Overhaul.
Load this mod after [HN] Banner Overhaul so my mod changes will overwrite!


What this mod does:

1) The banners and faction symbols of (almost) all Empire factions, plus Sylvania and von Carstein are changed to match their appearance in the heraldry book.

2) This includes the tint of the heraldic figures and flag colours, with the official heraldry book as physical source. So yes, in the process of creation I literally sat with the book on my chest in front of my PC, trying to somehow match the colours. Done as far as reasonable and as my little artistic abilities allowed to do, so don't expect perfection.

3) Middenland is an exception and will use the Coat of Arms of Middenheim for it's unique colours and flag partition as well as for the sake of a better distinction from their neighbours Hochland and Ostland, who both already use red as flag colour. If the community requests it, I'll do a version that uses the real flag of Middenland.



What this mod doesn't do:

1) Uniform colours. These are left untouched, only flags and faction symbols are changed.

2) Golden Order, Huntsmarshal's expedition and all imperial rebel and separatist factions are untouched.

3) Empire and Vampire faction symbols in the "start a new campaign" menu are untouched and will use the ones from [HN], if you're using that mod too.

4) Faction symbol shape&special effects. I'm not an artist at all, therefore the faction symbols don't have any shaders or weathering applied and just have one, simple colour tone.
Also they use the vanilla shape with a black border.

5) The flag borders from the book, for example the red line which surrounds the Talabeclander eagle on it's golden ground, aren't included in order not to clutter up the campaign map flag, additionally it often doesn't fit well to the 3D flag border/fringe model. Also because it won't work well with the faction symbol style.


Credits go to:

- [HN]
- Gigiauz
- Sigmap