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Post by Leon the Napoleon on Apr 3, 2017 15:29:50 GMT
Can anybody answer me why many general portraits look almost or entirely identical? For example Nunziante and Rowland are indistinguishable unless you see their troops' country. Also with others like Sacken and L'estoq. Please someone correct me if it is just my wild imagination or explain why is this ?
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Post by Louis-Alexandre Berthier on Apr 3, 2017 21:08:17 GMT
They just looked similar in real life. After all, people usually do like similar besides a few features.
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Post by Yi Sun Sin on Apr 3, 2017 22:41:09 GMT
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Post by Mountbatten on Apr 3, 2017 23:02:02 GMT
Why? Edit: Nvm it's already been moved I see. The portraits are similar simply because creating 150 of them is time consuming. So simply reuse the template and throw a different flag on it and voila, a new general. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Picard on Apr 3, 2017 23:03:46 GMT
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Post by Thrawn on Apr 4, 2017 2:57:43 GMT
Why? Edit: Nvm it's already been moved I see. The portraits are similar simply because creating 150 of them is time consuming. So simply reuse the template and throw a different flag on it and voila, a new general. Their face were also edited a bit and uniforms change. |
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Post by Thrawn on Apr 4, 2017 3:03:31 GMT
  Prussian and Russian identical twins. |
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Post by Thrawn on Apr 4, 2017 3:08:49 GMT
  British and French not so identical twins. |
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Post by Imperial RomeBall on Apr 4, 2017 3:10:57 GMT
Prussian and Russian identical twins. Well....Catherine II the Great was Prussian, and several Russian Generals of the early 1800s were German descended, such as the one here. Not super surprising, other than that they aren't actually twins...or are they :0 Edit: plus the Germans in Russian military were Baltic Germans. If I had to guess what the closest type of German is, I'd say Prussian. |
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Post by Thrawn on Apr 4, 2017 3:13:56 GMT
Prussian and Russian identical twins. Well....Catherine II the Great was Prussian, and several Russian Generals of the early 1800s were German descended, such as the one here. Not super surprising, other than that they aren't actually twins...or are they :0 Edit: plus the Germans in Russian military were Baltic Germans. If I had to guess what the closest type of German is, I'd say Prussian. I read about it after I discovered in EW4 that the Russians had non-Russian generals. |
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Post by Imperial RomeBall on Apr 4, 2017 3:18:27 GMT
Well....Catherine II the Great was Prussian, and several Russian Generals of the early 1800s were German descended, such as the one here. Not super surprising, other than that they aren't actually twins...or are they :0 Edit: plus the Germans in Russian military were Baltic Germans. If I had to guess what the closest type of German is, I'd say Prussian. I read about it after I discovered in EW4 that the Russians had non-Russian generals. I was going to say those were the good old days, but then I remembered that several Soviet generals, including at least 2 Marshals, were non-Russian. Including Bagramyan, the first non-Slavic Marshal. He was Armenian. And of course there is Joseph Stalin, who was Georgian. Hitler was not from Germany, but could call himself German and be correct. Not so for Stalin. |
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Post by Thrawn on Apr 4, 2017 3:20:05 GMT
I read about it after I discovered in EW4 that the Russians had non-Russian generals. I was going to say those were the good old days, but then I remembered that several Soviet generals, including at least 2 Marshals, were non-Russian. Including Bagramyan, the first non-Slavic Marshal. He was Armenian. And of course there is Joseph Stalin, who was Georgian. Hitler was not from Germany, but could call himself German and be correct. Not so for Stalin. Mind blown. |
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Post by Louis-Alexandre Berthier on Apr 4, 2017 20:44:12 GMT
Prussian and Russian identical twins. They have different backgrounds.  |
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Post by Thrawn on Apr 5, 2017 15:17:25 GMT
Prussian and Russian identical twins. They have different backgrounds. Now only I noticed. |
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Post by Leon the Napoleon on Apr 5, 2017 16:06:44 GMT
Also if you have both Arnold and Scharnhorst(my case), you can swap their portraits quickly and then you notice only clothes and hat are different. I am sure this i the case with many other generals too
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