About Gimli Throwing Axe I actually prefer it to stay only for Gimli,you know he is a Hero so let him have Unique Weapon while the Axe Throwers use their own kind of Axes and I like a lot the new Design of them! :-)
By words of Adamin, that is Potato-Potata situation.

I just wanted to say, you have a point. On that axe situation we could also look in that way.

About the Banner well I already suggested something similar on ModDB so it means I like and support the Idea of CragLord! :-)
I think it will be great and unique fitting for the Elite Unit the Slayers ! :-)
And while I really like the new Movie Banner for IHs there is some small thing I didn't like in the Movie too and that is the Small.Green part of it,just seems out of place with all the Red and the Fact thath there is nothing Green in the IHs Faction.I think it should be Red too and if it is possible to make the Red of the Banner slightly Brighter Red like on the Soldiers,the current one seems kinda pale to me at least! :-)
Greetings! :-)
I personally don't have problem with current on. I think it could be maybe a bit stronger in color but again I don't see any green parts on current one. It is some dark yellow color in my eyes.
Now I also want to give my feedback on these epic
ARKENGUARD units.
This is the best dwarven looking units so far in this mod! I really love it!

Details are amazing on this unit. I also really like new weapons of this unit!
In one part I am sad that old Greataxes will not be part of mod.

I have already suggested separate banner for IH Slaughters.
I also think that current Erebor banner with arkenstone is perfect just for this Arkenguard unit.
(if you will change general baner to raven one for Erebor's units)
Also one question which really bothers me, no matter how much I like idea, look and name of this unit. It is about its name.
From lore we have a very "specific" situation, arkenstone is buried with Thorin into his grave deep under mountain, so, this unit is not guarding arkenstone in time when Dain is King Under Mountain....
Because of that, I would just ask, is this name from lore reasons appropriate?
Best regards,
CragLord