Screenshots!

[Sheogorath]

Prussians wear blue and yellow?
Seems more Swedish to me. I thought the Pruskies went in for a more monochrome approach.

[CBR]

Prussians wear blue and yellow?
Seems more Swedish to me. I thought the Pruskies went in for a more monochrome approach.

Huh? They are already way too monochrome in that picture.


CBR

[Monk]

Finally, some screenshots that don't blind me with bloom to look at!

I like this new batch the best, really good stuff. Keep the shots coming guys! We should be seeing more as reviews of the game begin to pop up.

[Mailman653]

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-...hru-ages-1.htm
I found this, might help add fuel to the color war.

[Megas Methuselah]

Thanks for the mail, Mailman. That is not how I imagined the uniforms of Prussia...

[Vuk]

Is that multiple constructions per turn that I see?

[Polemists]

The new advisor is quite a looker,

Well i'm sold on the tutorial feature now

[Barkhorn1x]

Prussians wear blue and yellow?
Seems more Swedish to me. I thought the Pruskies went in for a more monochrome approach.

The shade of blue (Prussian blue ) looks about right and yellow was a facing color for some Prussian regiments. See the uniform link posted by another member = IR von Knobloch is an example.

What was frightening was that the original Prussian color -for clarity's sake* - was black. Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed.


* ...or so we were told. This was another result of CA's penchant for almost always choosing gameplay over history. As if historical accuracy doesn't have gameplay value itself.

[Fisherking]

The shade of blue (Prussian blue ) looks about right and yellow was a facing color for some Prussian regiments. See the uniform link posted by another member = IR von Knobloch is an example.

What was frightening was that the original Prussian color -for clarity's sake* - was black. Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed.


* ...or so we were told. This was another result of CA's penchant for almost always choosing gameplay over history. As if historical accuracy doesn't have gameplay value itself.

An interesting side note to that uniform.

I have been told that yellow, or gold is a color associated with bravery in the German language. Where as, in English we know the opposite is true, at least for yellow.

[Marten]

An interesting side note to that uniform.

I have been told that yellow, or gold is a color associated with bravery in the German language. Where as, in English we know the opposite is true, at least for yellow.

Interesting to me that you all refer to the black uniforms in the prussian army. In 1813 the famous "Lützower Jäger" were founded as "Freikorps" (Free Korps) consisting of mostly students. They got no payment and had to dress themselves. So they got the idea of black uniforms (cheap colour, you know), with gold and red laces. They invented the colours of the federal republic of germany without knowing it ... But our "founding fathers" did remember in 1945 (also our students in the revolution of 1848).

This regiment is only famous because of the famous members, just 2 of them i know from my memories: Joseph von Eichendorff (famous german poet) and Friedrich Fröbel (you may know him - he invented the "Kindergarten"). There was no decisive military impact in any way from these guys, they mostly fought together with russian cossacks as cavalry. By the way, 1813 was also the year of the new founded "iron cross" - iron because of the lack of money.

[Marten]

My membership doesn't allow me to edit, so i have to add:

Gold as color associated of bravery may result from the "Pour le Mérite" (founded by Frederick the Great in 1740 for bravery). The bearers of the medal had some exclusive rights: All soldiers - even the higher ranks - had to salute them, also all guards. Frederick awarded the medal also to civilians like his friend Voltaire. In 1842 a "peace class" for science and arts was founded, it still exists today. Very famous bearer is Alex von Humboldt.

[Sheogorath]

The shade of blue (Prussian blue ) looks about right and yellow was a facing color for some Prussian regiments. See the uniform link posted by another member = IR von Knobloch is an example.

What was frightening was that the original Prussian color -for clarity's sake* - was black. Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed.


* ...or so we were told. This was another result of CA's penchant for almost always choosing gameplay over history. As if historical accuracy doesn't have gameplay value itself.

Ah. I went and looked it up and, although I thought they were originally black, it appears they went in for a navy blue (with white trim) in the Napoleonic era. That would just be for the infantry, of course. I dont even like to think of how people dressed their cavalry in this era. Some of their uniforms were really quite tasteless

[ConnMon]

Did anyone notice that below Stockholm there was a little icon with people, and it had a '1.8 M' beside it. Is empire going to have realisic population amounts now? Is this new or am I just out of sync? And on the map, is the little blob to the far left Iceland? It's the same color as Norway, so thats what I thought.

[Sir Beane]

Did anyone notice that below Stockholm there was a little icon with people, and it had a '1.8 M' beside it. Is empire going to have realisic population amounts now? Is this new or am I just out of sync? And on the map, is the little blob to the far left Iceland? It's the same color as Norway, so thats what I thought.

You are a little out of sync, but not by much. Yes the game uses realistic poplations now.

And yes that is Iceland, in the game and belonging to Norway.