poland and casimir iii (axis powers hetalia and 2 more) drawn by sherry_lai

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    New leaders from the CIV V expansion “Brave New World”! Casimir III was a man of great stature, Poland was not. By the end of his reign though, Poland would be more than double the size.

    (The coat of arms of the House Piast is supposed to be a white eagle, not black, so I changed it)

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    Painiac
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    Nice touch with swapping colours. Black eagle as main icon for Poland is basically insult. Poland fought for ages with black eagles - from Germany, Austria, Russia... I don't remember another country with white eagle as emblem. I kinda think Austria and Poland emblems got swapped for some reason in CiV... after all, they managed to portrait Gustavus Adolphus as Erik XIV.

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    • SirFitzMitchellFitzRoy
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    Painiac said:

    Nice touch with swapping colours. Black eagle as main icon for Poland is basically insult. Poland fought for ages with black eagles - from Germany, Austria, Russia... I don't remember another country with white eagle as emblem. I kinda think Austria and Poland emblems got swapped for some reason in CiV... after all, they managed to portrait Gustavus Adolphus as Erik XIV.

    Well, I think Serbia has a white eagle of some kind, IIRC. Probably others down in the balkans, too, so maybe some Civ V designer got confused what with Austro-Hungary being down there or something...

    Still, yeah, White Eagle... I would think Poland before Serbia there, so it is a bit of a weird choice. I think they were running out of colours that suited Austria (Yellow/Black was already taken by Russia, White/Black by Germany), so they probably just gave Austria Red/White because that's their colours now. And then when they added Poland later they were caught out because they needed almost the same colours.

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