No! This look is amazing and historically accurate. This was not a western heater shield, like the ones you are showing. It was a common shield used by Byzantine infantry. The Triangle Shield must be 4 shield skill so I can actually use it though. Best looking shield in the game with the Dark Blue Heavy Norman being a close second.
It's a collection of a bunch of terrible try hard tough guy symbols out there. A plate armour with a plate skull(?), wings, swords, spikes and a fucking crown of thorns? The logo itself is completely tasteless and very unfit for a banner which is then poorly plastered on a black field. I like you guys as a clan and I think some of the hate you get is misplaced, but I would never join Mercs simply because I had to carry that piece of shit around.
Now of course there are terrible banners around, especially on NA, but when talking clans with a serious profile then Mercs has the worst banner.
The thing you got to understand is we don't got any theme to stick with :
- Nordmen got a nord themed banner
- Byzantium got a byzantine banner
- Grey order got a dark/white banner with the message of balance.
- Druzhina guys got a bear on red background. (bear = russia)
- Templars got the white background with the red cross (obviously, it reminds of crusaders)
Mercenaries don't got any theme, we are just a bunch of players with a lot of different RP that you can see by watching all merc's gear, and this is the main bad thing about making a banner. I like the banner for my part because of elements of this banner.
pic doesn't work
- Dark backgroud to remind of the evilness/darkness/chaos of the battlefield (?)
- a death angel in a plate armor to remind of the death and the blood
- a golden ring with spikes to remind of the gold
All elements of mercenaries are on this banner, the theme is that we don't got any theme to stick with (-> no restrictions about armors, classes, etc ...), and we prefer obviously to wear non heraldic armors because wearing a banner is for noblemen. I have to agree to the point that our banner is literally horrible on shields and armors with few exceptions like transitional plate.