proper colors for the Byzantines

[efstratios]

hello gents,

can any of you modders out there come up with a decent representation of the Byzantine banner and colors in one of your next mods?

I play them a lot and all I get in the map is something out of a funeral...

The Byzantine war banner was of dark red color (porphyro) and included a double headed eagle in gold - a figure that was since borrowed by just about everybody in Europe.

In addition, shields were fashioned with a large X in front of a smaller P, the first two letters of the word Christ in Greek.

As always, I am thanking you in advance.

E

[LRossaLordJimi]

Ok i will ask to some italian Stylist like Missoni,Versace,Valentino to re-design new uniforms for Byza http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
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[ZIM!]

typically a byzantine war banner was some kind of christian religious image like mary and baby jesus I thought

[MonkeyMan]

Here's one
http://www.e-grammes.gr/flags/byzantine.gif

http://www.in2greece.com/images/drawings/doubleeagle.gif

A site on it (http://www.hoplon.bravepages.com/en/articles/byzantineflag.htm)
and another
http://flagspot.net/images/b/byz_pal.gif

and

http://flagspot.net/images/b/byz_395.gif

However, in the period of MTW this one would be most appropriate with the yellow eagle one being appropriate to sometime in the 15th century.

http://flagspot.net/images/b/byz_fok.gif