Preview: Faction Icons

**Nero666** · December 17, 2005, 09:49 AM

We proudly present to you: The Rise Of Persia faction icons.
Designing these has cost a huge amount of time to our former team member Lupus_gr, and we hope you all like them

More previews will be posted this week, and we'll try to keep our promise and release our first public beta just before Christmas. For now: Enjoy the preview!

**Maethius** · December 17, 2005, 11:14 AM

Looks good, great work!

**Badnercalabrese** · January 17, 2006, 03:01 PM

those are awesome

**Greek Fire 19** · February 06, 2006, 04:16 PM

Beautiful icons; some of the best I'v seen for RTW!

**Spurius** · February 06, 2006, 06:24 PM

Currently 'postprocessing' them for the beta:

oh btw everyone visit the new frontpage

http://www.riseofpersia.com/

Nearly forgot

**Hobo** · February 06, 2006, 10:42 PM

HA!

Improtant newsflash about the beta....
...in cuniform

**Sparton Matticus** · February 07, 2006, 12:03 PM

not bad!

What happened to that other guy who created this mod... fageri or some thing like that. Seems nero is in charge now.. but i like the work so far! good job.. another mod im looking foward too

**Achaemenid** · February 10, 2006, 02:30 AM

Faeghi resigned, unfortunately. But the mod is really progressing fast right now. The map finally doesn't give any CTDs anymore, we now just have to get all those regions back in without messing up, which may take a few more days.

**LordSaradain** · February 10, 2006, 02:42 AM

Cool icons!

**Mirconus the Great** · March 30, 2006, 10:54 AM

These are great symbols! Congratulations to whoever has done them... He's got my admiration...

**Anachronist** · May 11, 2006, 04:48 PM

nice

**FliegerAD** · May 11, 2006, 05:06 PM

Some are, but others...
Fortunatly Kaweh K. currently revamps some of them as they are not historic (e.g. Media).

**Salahdin al-Ayyubi** · June 02, 2006, 12:31 PM

The caananite one seems very strange. Is it historically accurate? Didn't they have phenician symbols, as they were apparented, instead of greek ones?

**FliegerAD** · June 02, 2006, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by Salahdin al-Ayyubi

The caananite one seems very strange. Is it historically accurate? Didn't they have phenician symbols, as they were apparented, instead of greek ones?

Rez already showed you the basis, however you may be interested in further information.

The Greek appearance of the soldiers is rather easy to explain, since Greek as well as Phoinikian cities employed heavy citizens' infantry. The helmets similar to the Greek's helmets were noted by Herodot, btw. (cf. Hdt. VII 89,1). About the ships I don't need to say anything, I think.

The galley itself continuously appears on the coins of Sidon, beside Tyros the most important city, while the symbol below is a hippocamp usually ridden by Melkart, most important God of the Phoinikians and protector of the ships. That hippocamp is often featured on Tyrian coins.

So this faction icon represents the most important cities of Phoinikia and moreover it displays the reliance on naval power and the heavy citizen infantry. I think it was a wise choice.