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Offline Osyr

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Italian city-state colors?
« on: 24 October 2012, 12:08:24 AM »
After seeing the new Perry and TAG Italians in topics below, I was thinking of making a condotta. Not knowing much about the era I have a question.

Every city-state I'm aware of (all 3) seem to wear different combinations of red and white.
I'm wondering if any city-states wore green and white, or other non-red colors. Just point me to the city and I can find out the rest, I just don't know many city's.

Offline Sirolf

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Re: Italian city-state colors?
« Reply #1 on: 24 October 2012, 03:47:06 AM »
Milan soldiers under the Visconti wore a combination of red, green, and white. I guess that you could play with it to include mostly green and white...

Naples' soldiers wore mostly red and yellow. Siena militias usually wore grey and white, but you could play with the contrada's colors to create colorful regiments.

Usually, only town militias and provvisionati (permanent soldiers directly serving the state) would wear the town's color. Condottas would bear the banner of the town they were serving but not wear their colors. The knights and household soldiers of the captain would wear his personal colors but the main body of the condotta wouldn't wear heraldic devices.

Hope I helped!!

 

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