Most/least aesthetically attractive kingdom/caliphate/sultanate/khanate/empire?

[Innocentius]

Not a very serious topic I know, just though it was worth discussing.

Most attractive I say is holding Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Greece, Constantinople, Nicaea, Trebizon, Anatolia, Lesser Armenia, Rum and Armenia as either the Byzantines or the Seljuks/Ottomans. Second would be the British Isles as the English.

Least attractive must be holding Poland (Greater Poland and Lesser Poland for us XL:ers) and Moldavia as the Byzantines or Bohemians. Looks like a purple dildo

[The Unknown Guy]

Unified Iberia either under the Almohads or one of the northern Christian kingdoms.

The Pyrinees make an easily defensible border, so you can turtle there and never fear of invasions or crusades. And you can strike either north by land, or sea, or east, to the Mediterranean.

The only problem is that to truly "lock down" Spain you need to own both Morocco, Navarre, and Aragon. Which means sçuikking two of the three existing factions

Also: Serbia, Hungary, Anatolia, and Trebizond make very nice chokepoints

[Deus ret.]

I think what Innocentius meant was aesthetic value, not strategic In any case, I enjoyed the aspect of my HRE empire in a MedMod campaign. It stretched from Scandinavia down to Sicily and thus colorful Europe was divided in two parts, separated by a large chunk of void (at least against darker backgrounds)

[seireikhaan]

Most: Sicilians, owning the Italian peninsula, along with North Africa, stretching from Morocco to Jerusalem.

Least: Anything with the HRE. The black color just ends up confusing me at times.

[The Unknown Guy]

I find Sicilian gray to be more annoying. When I started playing I often blew up Sicilian fleets mistaking them for rebels, thus triggering all-out wars which I didn´t want at the moment.

[Innocentius]

Creating a Genoan superpower in the Mediterranean is also a good one. All the coastal provinces of the Levant, all of Northern Africa and Italy, all islands and then Serbia, Croatia, Greece, Constantinople, Nicaea, Lesser Armenia, Valencia and Aragon makes up for a real interesting looking empire. Of course you could add all coastal provinmces to that, but some of them (like Anatolia) go too far inland to be attractive. You could add Trebizond and the Crimea to that as well, making you a power in the Black Sea as well.

[gaiusjulii]

aesthetically speaking for my personal taste I like it playing as the english Holding the British Isles including ireland, Norway Sweden, and then Sicily, Tripoli, edessa and antioch Are a point where I like to look of my empire, Or if am Italy or Spain It has to be holding all of SPain and All of Italy Including Sicily. These have to be my 2 most favorite looking Kingdoms... If that dont sound to Odd... he he he A good Looking kingdom How weird am i

[Maloncanth]

Aesthetically? The Golden Horde confined to unified Sicily and Italy. :p


As for the least attractive, I'd have to give it to the Turks and their ugly green color in ANY configuration that involves Syria as a border. That is one ugly province.

Also anytime Aragon has only Aragon under its control or the Russians with only Muscovy, that crooked shape of those provinces is ugly.

[Martok]

I'm personally a sucker for the Byzantine royal purple, the English red, the French blue, and the Danish white.

For as much as they're my 2nd favorite faction (after the Spanish), I confess I find the Egyptians' colors to be among my least favorite -- they blend in too well with the desert battle maps on which they fight!

[Caliburn]

The coollest looking colour configuration in a unit in my opinion is the Danish white and red on High Royal Knights. Never a cooller looking unit in MTW... So maybe any Danish kingdom with High Royal Knights would be my choice. Makes me not want to use other heavy cavalry in my Danish armies!

[Great Est.]

Hi all, first time poster here.
I find the royal purple of the byz the most aesthetically pleasing. The only trouble is that purple tends to clash with most of the other faction colors. (Purple and yellow? Barf).
So, if you are going for an "aesthetic conquest" with the Byz, best leave the Danes or HRE in place until the end. Better yet, wipe out everyone. Purple really is best all alone.
It would be interesting to play a game with aesthetic constraints, like only attacking complimentary colors or primary colors or colors that clash. What would that be like? If you are the HRE must you turtle, since black goes with everything?

[Warluster]

Msot: Europe as England or France.

least: Aragon as Byzantines

[Glyndwr in the Soke]

Lol. That reminds me of the first time I had a look at a Euro coin. It was like: "What is that flagging ... ahem ... male tackle with a scrotum doing up there?"

Of course, if the Norwegians had decided not to be difficult, no one would never have noticed that Sweden and Finland have this slightly disturbing outline.

Speaking of the game... Elmo Orange everywhere is way cool. Danish white, too. My favourite colour is the Welsh green, though, so, in conjunction with the game, I'd have to say: anything involving a green Jutland while Hordaland is still white, so I can trade with it.