Flags of the Revolutionaries

**Aide de camp** · 03-08-2009, 13:45

Originally Posted by Monk

Prussian rebels carry a tri-color flag. Orange, black and perhaps red. I forget the third color

.

Black, red and gold, the modern flag of germany. I can't play the game yet

but I've seen it in some screenshots.

**Monk** · 03-08-2009, 13:52

Originally Posted by Aide de camp

Black, red and gold, the modern flag of germany. I can't play the game yet

but I've seen it in some screenshots.

Oh yes, I remember now.

In my next play-through as France I'm heavily considering trying to force a rebellion. Does anyone have any tips for this? Is it just as simple as hiking up taxes, destroying some theaters and calling the towns people some foul names?

**Smurflor** · 03-08-2009, 14:11

Originally Posted by Monk

In my next play-through as France I'm heavily considering trying to force a rebellion. Does anyone have any tips for this? Is it just as simple as hiking up taxes, destroying some theaters and calling the towns people some foul names?

When I started out with Prussia I just maxed out the taxes, moved out my armies and just went through 2-3 turns without doing much (exept raking in the cash from the extortionate taxes) and although a few buildings got damaged along the way, and I lost one town to rebels, it doesnt take long for an all out rebellion.

It was actually a lot of fun as I didn't know what to expect. I got all confused when I sided with the rebels and my armies buggered off

**Beskar** · 03-08-2009, 16:12

I was upset the Russian revolutions didn't have the October Revolutionist flag.

**Subotan** · 03-08-2009, 16:18

Originally Posted by TiberiusBeskar

I was upset the Russian revolutions didn't have the October Revolutionist flag.

What is that? Surely not the Hammer and Sickle?

**A Very Super Market** · 03-08-2009, 17:28

Crazy people, communism as a political system only existed in the 19th century..

**Relic** · 03-08-2009, 17:59

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Crazy people, communism as a political system only existed in the 19th century..

Isn't total war supposed to be historical; but give you the chance to force an alternate histroy?

**Subotan** · 03-08-2009, 16:14

I wanna play as a megalomaniac autocrat, suffer a rebellion and then obliterate the rebels, crushing all resistance beneath the tyrannical heels of my loyal grenadiers.

**Mister V** · 03-08-2009, 13:55

Russian rebels seem to carry the regular tri-color (I tried to provoke a revolution once, to see how it goes - all my armed forces were split in half roughly, and that's about 20 stacks... would've been fun to actually fight them

).

**pevergreen** · 03-08-2009, 13:56

High taxes and the big killer is the 3rd tab of tech. The freedom ones.

Clamour for reform is the big killer. Its taking away 14 PO points from London right now. >___>

**JeromeBaker** · 04-03-2009, 14:49

Originally Posted by Mister V

Russian rebels seem to carry the regular tri-color (I tried to provoke a revolution once, to see how it goes - all my armed forces were split in half roughly, and that's about 20 stacks... would've been fun to actually fight them

).

So Russian rebels carry the same flag as regular Russian troops? If this is true, it explains something I saw that blew my mind a couple nights ago. I was playing as Prussia and had gone deep into Russia on campaign. I overextended myself and had only 1 stack of decent troops left who were already banged up a little and they were in a city about to be attacked by 2 stacks of good Russian troops. Before the 2 stacks of Russian troops could attack, the better of the two stacks went south towards another Russian army comming from the territory below. I thought great, now I get to try 1 stack of mine versus 3 of theirs. Then I thought I had drank too much when the two Russian stacks ended up fighting one another and pretty much wipied each other out leaving only one stack left. I beat the one stack pretty easily with minimal losses and it gave me a huge swing in that war which is pretty much over now. I assumed my eyes either played a trick on me or it was a strange bug.

*EDIT* I just reviewed the page that showed all the flags in ETW and I guess Russia does change flags. So now I was either seeing things again or a weird bug occured.

**Mailman653** · 04-03-2009, 15:26

@ JeromeBaker:

Maybe they were having a civil war when you entered?

**Marius Dynamite** · 03-08-2009, 20:40

Originally Posted by Aide de camp

Black, red and gold, the modern flag of germany. I can't play the game yet

but I've seen it in some screenshots.

I almost kissed my monitor when I seen this appear after my self made revolution in my Prussian campaign.

I had been uniting the Germany states, Wurtemburg, Westphalia, Hannover, Bavaria , West Prussia etc. and adding in the Germany flag on top of that was awesome, and I didn't expect it!

Now if only I could rename cities and my faction. It would be nice to be able to call myself Germany now rather than Prussia.