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Here's the information we found on your coat of arms.
We weren't completely sure what you meant by your description. We were mainly confused when you said "embattlements all the way around;" we guessed that you meant "a bordure embattled." You also mentioned that you wanted to counterchange the colors, but it's possible to counterchange along any line. We guessed that you wanted to divide the design down the middle between the left and right; this is called "per pale." We also guessed that the white (argent) background would be on the left and the blue (azure) background would be on the right.
If our guesses are right, this coat would be described "Per pale argent and azure, a mullet of four points and a bordure embattled counterchanged."
You asked if your coat of arms would pass Laurel. It's possible to pass a coat of arms which isn't historical, but the Academy only looks at historical issues. If you don't care whether your arms are historical or not,
You asked if your coat of arms would pass Laurel. We see no reason that it would not, though we haven't checked carefully for other arms that are too similar to your design. Our primary interest is assisting you to make your arms as historically correct as possible; the remainder of this letter makes suggestions on how you could make your arms more medieval. If you're more concerned with getting arms that will pass than with historical arms, you may want to write to the SCAHRLDS mailing list, http://listserv.aol.com/archives/scahrlds.html, an e-mail group for SCA heraldry, for an opinion on whether your arms will pass.
We haven't found any evidence that the "mullet of four points" is a period charge, and many signs that it isn't. Mundane sources (1) say that a mullet has at least five points. They sometimes had six or eight, but in Britain mullets usually had five points. We recommend changing the "mullet of four points" to a "mullet of five points."
Counterchanged bordures are found in medieval heraldry, but they're fairly rare. The "embattled" line of division is also fairly rare. As a result, we don't have any examples of "bordures which were counterchanged and embattled. We would recommend removing the "embattled" from the border.
This would give you the arms "Per pale argent and azure, a mullet of five points and a bordure counterchanged." We think this is free of conflict, although there is a coat of arms "Per pale azure and argent, a mullet of five points." These arms would be very close to a mirror image of yours, and although they don't conflict under the rules the two arms are very close.
Rouland Carre, Talan Gwynek, Arval D'Espas Nord, Elsbeth Anne Ross, Zenobia Naphtali, Walraven van Nijmegen, Lindorm Eriksson, Hartmann Rogge, Daniel de Lincoln, and Alison Macdermot contributed to this letter.
We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to work with you.
In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of S. Gabriel