Odds and ends.

[Kloreep]

Flag is great.

The Landsknecht sound good.

For our motto, I like the Sun Tzu quote. Straight to the point.

As far as changing the civgroup icon, I tried resizing the arm/sword flag; but at least with IRFanView, the sword doesn't seem to come out too well.

[polarnomad]

I tried to mess with the image in Gimp and got about the same result as Kloreep. There's just too much visual info that gets lost.

[Nikolai]

Proposed flag is great
Never heard of the Landsknecht before, but if it pleases you
And Sun Tzu all the way

[Kloreep]

I tried rotating the sword around and chopping off the arm & hilt, which produces a more distinct result, though it's fairly far afield from the original image:

[troglodyte]

Actually Kloreep's first image looks great on my screen (1600x1200). The fingers are a bit indistinct, but on an image almost the size of a smiley we can overlook it.

I go with the Sun Tzu quote - polarnomad sounds like he can translate that into German if necessary!

By the way, must have been hell to fight in that garb. All those colours, gives new meaning to the phrase "If you're going to fight - clash!"

[polarnomad]

Originally posted by troglodyte
Actually Kloreep's first image looks great on my screen (1600x1200). The fingers are a bit indistinct, but on an image almost the size of a smiley we can overlook it.

Big screen! Must be nice not to have to do so much scrolling about when you fire up CivIV.

Originally posted by troglodyte
I go with the Sun Tzu quote - polarnomad sounds like he can translate that into German if necessary!

Ummm... Well, I spoke German fluently, but I haven't used it properly in about 18 years, so...

*looks sheepishly at his feet

I don't think I'm up to the task. (Unless you don't mind mistakes...)

[polarnomad]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Never heard of the Landsknecht before, but if it pleases you

It's more important to me that everyone here likes the idea. I'm easy as far what we call ourselves.

BTW we could change the "Todesengel" in "Todesengel Landsknecht Fähnlein" to something that might more appropriately represent our team if someone has a preference. I just thought "Angel of Death" sounded neat when I bumped into the Guild's website that uses the same name.

[troglodyte]

[SIZE=1] Big screen!

Oh, it's just standard ICT technique: Instead of making the system work better they just give you fancier hardware and better interfaces and ergonomics in the hope you won't notice that they didn't address the fundamentals.

Trogs addressing the ceiling: If any of you company guys are watching this, I am not going to wrap myself around that weirdo crounching kneeling stool thingy to use my terminal. I want a desk that I can stretch my legs out under.

[polarnomad]

ICT?

[troglodyte]

Originally posted by polarnomad
ICT?

Information & Communication Technology (latest buzzword round here)

[Nikolai]

ICT, latest? First time I heard the word was sometime round the end of the last millennium. It's quite some time since I heard it last time now, it's gone out of use.

[troglodyte]

Hey, I just call them what they want to be called. What are the latest names for those sections?

[Nikolai]

Not sure actually, they haven't used such terms much since the dotcom failure some years ago.

[polarnomad]

Don't listen to Nikolai... he's Norwegian!

And since we're already so far off topic it hurts, BTW Trogs why does it say "(close enough)" next to your location?

[troglodyte]

So what's the story? I take it we have
1) more or less(?) accepted the Landsknecht civ descriptions (despite the horrible clothing), although some debate about the Todesengel bit remains(?) - no comments against, anyway
2) accepted that particular Sun Tzu motto,
3) accepted the flag,
4) the jury is out on Kloreep's smaller images and we don't know if any change will be accepted anyway.
What is left, and how much time do we have to finish this?

Especially since the Unit Cost thread is where the action is at!

@polarnomad: just said "close enough" to see how long it would take people to notice. Actually, the co. is very decentralised and we work mainly from Botswana, Zambia and South Africa because of the legislation in South Africa that prohibits the provision of military expertise. If you want more info we can pm. But back to the point of the thread, have you had a go at the translation of the Sun Tzu quote? My brother works for the foreign ministry so he can get assistance if I ask really nicely.