[ANSTHRLD] Conflict Checking using "oanda"

[Alasdair MacEogan]

OK.  Lets start out with the obvious.  You can't have a standard ordinary (in your instance a cross) on a fieldless badge because the edges are defined by the field.  You would have to coup the ends.  


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com>
>  To: Ansteorran Heralds List <heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
>  Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Conflict Checking using "oanda"
>  Sent: 11 Sep '10 21:52
>  
>  
>  First off... If there is a better title... lets use it..
>  now for the meat and taters of the email
>  
>  http://oanda.sca.org/
>  
>  since you all were so kind to help me with my device..
>  figured i would attempt to do my own badge
>  now.. this is the badge i am attempting to conflict check  
>  
>  Blazon:
>  Fieldless, a cross quarterly argent and gules, surmounted by a mullet of eight points pierced sable
>  
>  Emblazon:
>  http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll227/aednial/badgecolored.gif
>  
>  now... coming to the "oanda"
>  i broke it down into several different queries
>  
>  First i looked for fieldless - returned on the query as invalid, so i went in and manually looked it up via the "F" link  still nothing so.. onward
>  
>  I then went onto cross...  there are several versions of the cross, i wanted just a good old fashioned plain cross. so i did not add a descriptor to it
>  i came up with the following query : CRAC:multicolor:sole primary  -  because the cross is dual colored, and since it is underneath the mullet and first in the blazon i took it as the "primary" charge..
>  i found several, but none that appeared to be a plain cross.. and none that were quarterly argent and gules.
>  after pulling up the result list i checked for conflicts using the "find" feature built into my browser, typing two searches: {quarterly} , {argent and gules}
>  
>  i then moved on to the mullet figuring that the cross was not conflicting, since i wanted my mullet similar to the ones on my device.
>  i came up with the following query : STAR:sable:4 or more:charged - because the mullet is of course sable, with eight tines or points, and i assumed the peircing counts as a charge ( mainly because the find function pulled up pierced on the charged search and not on the uncharged)
>  again after pulling up the result list i checked for conflicts using the
>  "find" feature built into my browser, typing several searches including: {eight points} , {Pierced} , {Surmounting}
>  
>  again i did not find anything that compares... did i do this process correctly? How about completely ?
>  id love to just teach myself... but this can get awfully bloody complicated, perhaps in the "I want a device. Now What?"   thread that is going on, someone could make a sort of Oanda Primer?
>  
>  once again, i appreciate your patience, and thank you all for the help and instruction you have provided...
>  
>  Jbrandl10
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