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Crusaders - Thy Kingdom come (Videogame)

Introduction
The Flags
Shields and Streamers

See also:

Introduction

See about this game here and here. It is a real time strategy military simulation game set in the First Crusade, developed by Neocore Games, a company based in Hungary. In this game, flags play an important role in identifying units in battle and as game interface icons.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Flags play a major role in the game action. See here, here and here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008

The Flags

Although I did not play this game myself, the screenshots available to me indicate that the flags in this game are all quite oblong, about 3:5 or 1:2, with a triangular tip protuding from the fly of an otherwise quandrangular flag. The designs seem to be all monocolored with a central device in a contrasting color and a thin tressure or border on all free edges. These are used on apparently wooden poles topped with spear finials, in varying sizes. Typical game scenes show hosts of cavalymen and even footmen, each carrying an identical flag and some sporting shields with different designs.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Arabs

Arabs use green flags with two white crossed scimitarrs and a white star between and above them, apparently five-pointed. This design is surely based on the current Saudi flag, although Arabs did use flags with swords (the zulfikar ) around this time. The star, OTOH, is ananachronistic.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Franks/French

Franks/French (?) use (dark) blue flags with a large (golden) yellow fleur de lis. This is a simplification of the French arms, both old (Azur semy of fleurs de lis Or) and new (Azur three fleurs de lis Or two and one).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Norman/English

Normans/English use red flags with one (golden) yellow lion in the usual heraldic stance for England, Normandy and kin: passant guardant. “real flags”.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Unidentified Flag or Ensign

There is at least one more such flag, hardely visible in the screenshots available to me (compared with quite many of the three above): a single, partly visible (golden) yellow flag with a thick red orle (much bolder than the thin tressure of all others), possibly with some red charge. “real flags”.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Shields and Streamers

Shields and streamers with the preceeding and more designs are shown in some of the screenshots available to me, used as iconic markers (streamers with varying length, as a bar graph).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

See here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008

Provence

Azure a fleur de lis Or and in chief a label Gules as provence — the streamer for this one is unfurled enough to show the design rotated so that the hoist is the armorial chief).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Lorraine

Or on a bend Gules three eagles displayed Argent as Lorraine — its streamer seems to be horizontal bicolor of red over yellow.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Occitany

Gules a cross paty pomety (?) Or voided as in Occitany.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

However the correponding shield is Argent a cross patty pomety (?) Gules fimbriated Or, in the game interface, but as described in game artwork here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008

Catalonia

A further screenshot showing a battle scene includes a knight holding a shield of the Catalonian arms (Or four pallets Gules) with shoulder smalting in the same pattern.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

The screenshot can be seen here.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008

Flander

Another screenshot shows the same kind of armour smalt showing the Flemish arms (Or a lion Sable), but neither shield nor flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

Unidentified Flag or Ensign

Finally, a couple of crusaders are clad in tabards patterned after the flag of St. George (Argent a cross Gules throughout), holding shields in the same pattern.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 10 June 2008

You can see the screenshot here.. The correspondent flag (?) is not St. George's, but rather a white flag with a red latin cross sideways (longer arm pointing to the fly) in celtic style. See also here. Also on golden shield in silver.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 June 2008