

The notable countries that did were Germany and the USSR, and that's the rationale that the devs have used to work on the new flags. But Italy didn't change their flag when Mussolini came to power. The reason that Nazi Germany changed their flag was because their previous republic had just fallen, thus somewhat justifying a new flag for the 'reborn' nation. It's a silly flag, all things told, but it's very good at giving the player information. But we use that flag in HOI because the player can immediately see and feel that the UK with that flag isn't a democracy and isn't communist. Does anyone seriously think that if Britain was ruled by the Union of Fascists they would have just superimposed their thunderbolt on to the union flag? No, almost certainly not.
