[MR] Northern Regional Badge Polling

[Gorm of Berra]

Uhh...one or two colors and a specific flag shape is pretty much
*exactly* what *good* Heraldry is...seeing as how the sort of thing
we're talking about doing is precisely what Heraldry developed for.

The mere fact that few of those are registered is because for a time
in the beginning of SCA Heraldry, the rules were set up in such a way
that discouraged simple designs from being registered...it's a long
story...google for "SCA Heraldry Modest Proposal" if you *really* need
the backstory (it isn't pretty).

Those rules have changed significantly now.

Regardless...we would want to register what we intend to use, for
several reasons:

1.  Kingdoms should lead by example.  Using unregistered Heraldry
sends the message to everyone "We don't care about it, why should
you?"

2.  It's a good way to guarantee those Baby-Eating-Midrealmers
(assuming we're with the east, otherwise it's those
Baby-Eating-Easties, of course) don't adopt the exact same flags and
confuse our troops on the battlefield.

3.  It avoids the potential problem of us using someone's registered
device for our battle standard, and thereby causing inadvertant
offense

I do, somewhat, wonder if we need separate flags to organize our
troops...it would be just as easy to fly the Kingdom Ensign and say
"North musters to the left of the ensign, Central in front and South
to the right" (or something to that effect).  But, I don't have a
strong enough opinion to care one way or the other...I'm just a cog in
the Atlantian Army, I go where they tell me :)


On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:14:04 -0800 (PST), Sean D. Sorrentino
<sdsorrentino at yahoo.com> wrote:
> this would be a fair point if we were flying some
> complicated badge. follow the signal flag link and see
> for yourself what i am talking about.
>
> http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/communications/flags/flags.html
>
> we are talking about one or two colors and a specific
> flag shape.