The bobbing flags were nice in a way. It wasn't as if I liked them, but they didn't spring into my eyes like the arrows. I tried playing with them, but they soon tired on me.
The bobbing flags could at least be imagined to be a man doing it. I don't know what kind of human action could create the arrows.

And while the lack of arrows mean a bit more confusion, that was not only bad. You only got confused when the big melee had started, the time when a real general also lost some sense of overview.